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Salt deposits in gas turbines and their effect on corrosion

Journal Article · · Prot. Met. (Engl. Transl.); (United States)
OSTI ID:5801766
A study has been made of the composition of deposits on the blades of marine engines run on diesel and turbine fuel, and also in a gas dynamic test bench in the products of fuel combustion. Deposits on blade surfaces were metal oxides and sulfates with an admixture of sodium chloride, and in the second case there were also vanadium oxides. Sodium chloride is mainly deposited in blade cooling channels, entering from sea water together with the intake air. The individual and combined effect of salts and vanadium pentoxide on the high-temperature corrosion of nickel alloys EP958VD and ZhS6F at temperatures from 700 to 950/sup 0/C and a duration of 50 h has been studied. It has been established that magnesium and calcium sulfates reduce the corrosivity of sodium sulfate, but sodium chloride and vanadium pentoxide increases it.
OSTI ID:
5801766
Journal Information:
Prot. Met. (Engl. Transl.); (United States), Journal Name: Prot. Met. (Engl. Transl.); (United States) Vol. 23:1; ISSN PTNMA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English