The effect of Zr on precipitation in oxide dispersion strengthened FeCrAl alloys

Massey, Caleb; Edmondson, Philip; Unocic, Kinga; Yang, Ying; Dryepondt, Sebastien N.; Kini, Anoop; Gault, Baptiste; Terrani, Kurt; Zinkle, Steven J.

doi:10.1016/j.jnucmat.2020.152105

Title: The effect of Zr on precipitation in oxide dispersion strengthened FeCrAl alloys

Journal Article · Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Journal of Nuclear Materials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2020.152105· OSTI ID:1651407

Massey, Caleb ^[1];

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^[1]; Kini, Anoop ^[2]; Gault, Baptiste ^[2];

^[1]; Zinkle, Steven J. ^[1]

Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Max-Planck-Institut fur Eisenforschung, Dusseldorf (Germany)

Oxide dispersion strengthened (ODS) FeCrAl alloys are promising candidate materials for advanced nuclear reactor applications requiring high-temperature strength, corrosion resistance, and irradiation tolerance. As these alloys have increased in compositional complexity through attempts to use highly reactive elements such as Zr to refine particle sizes and optimize nanoprecipitate dispersion characteristics, much debate has ensued as to the effects of these alloying element additions on alloy properties. In an attempt to reconcile differences in nanoprecipitate distributions reported in the literature over the past decade, a detailed investigation of a recently developed ODS FeCrAl alloy with nominal composition Fe–10Cr-6.1Al-0.3Zr+0.3Y₂O₃ is presented here using a combination of atom probe tomography (APT), scanning/transmission electron microscopy (S/TEM), and computational thermodynamics modeling. It is illustrated that based on the amount of Zr available in the lattice, Zr competes with Al and Cr to form carbides and nitrides as opposed to oxygen-rich precipitates. This alloy system has a high number density (>10²³ m^-3) of ~2–4 nm diameter (Y,Al,O)-rich nanoprecipitates, but it is shown that due to the compositional spread and unknown partitioning of Al between the matrix and precipitates, significant challenges still exist for quantifying the exact compositions of these precipitates using APT. However, the noted compositional spread is supported by identified complex oxides yttrium aluminum monoclinic (YAM) and yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) using S/TEM. As a result of these findings, researchers developing ODS FeCrAl with reactive element additions must pay careful attention to C and N impurities when optimizing reactive element additions.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1651407

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1606064

Journal Information:: Journal of Nuclear Materials, Vol. 533, Issue 1; ISSN 0022-3115

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