Complementary Methods for the Characterization of Corrosion Products on a Plant-Exposed Superheater Tube

Sunday Chukwudi Okoro; Frank Nießen; Matteo Villa; Daniel Apel; Melanie Montgomery; Flemming Jappe Frandsen; Karen Pantleon

doi:10.1007/s13632-016-0325-6

Complementary Methods for the Characterization of Corrosion Products on a Plant-Exposed Superheater Tube

Sunday Chukwudi Okoro, Frank Nießen, Matteo Villa, Daniel Apel, Melanie Montgomery, Flemming Jappe Frandsen, Karen Pantleon

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Abstract

In this work, complex corrosion products on a superheater tube exposed to biomass firing were characterized by the complementary use of energy-dispersive synchrotron diffraction, electron microscopy, and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. Non-destructive synchrotron diffraction in transmission geometry measuring with a small gauge volume from the sample surface through the corrosion product allowed depth-resolved phase identification and revealed the presence of (Fe,Cr)2O3 and FeCr2O4. This was supplemented by microstructural and elemental analysis correlating the additional presence of a Ni-rich austenite phase to selective removal of Fe and Cr from the alloy, via a KCl-induced corrosion mechanism. Compositional variations were related to diffraction results and revealed a qualitative influence of the spinel cation concentration on the observed diffraction lines.

Original language	English
Journal	Metallography, Microstructure, and Analysis
Volume	6
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	22–35
Number of pages	14
ISSN	2192-9262
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s13632-016-0325-6
Publication status	Published - 2017

Keywords

Stainless steel
(Synchrotron) X-ray diffraction
SEM
High-temperature corrosion
Chlorination
Spinel

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Complementary Methods for the Characterization of Corrosion Products on a Plant-Exposed Superheater Tube. / Okoro, Sunday Chukwudi; Nießen, Frank ; Villa, Matteo; Apel, Daniel; Montgomery, Melanie; Jappe Frandsen, Flemming ; Pantleon, Karen.

In: Metallography, Microstructure, and Analysis, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2017, p. 22–35.

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