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Heat Transfer Through Plasma-Sprayed Thermal Barrier Coatings in Gas Turbines: A Review of Recent Work

Heat Transfer Through Plasma-Sprayed Thermal Barrier Coatings in Gas Turbines: A Review of Recent Work
Heat Transfer Through Plasma-Sprayed Thermal Barrier Coatings in Gas Turbines: A Review of Recent Work
A review is presented of how heat transfer takes place in plasma-sprayed (zirconia-based) thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) during operation of gas turbines. These characteristics of TBCs are naturally of central importance to their function. Current state-of-the-art TBCs have relatively high levels of porosity (~15%) and the pore architecture (i.e., its morphology, connectivity, and scale) has a strong influence on the heat flow. Contributions from convective, conductive, and radiative heat transfer are considered, under a range of operating conditions, and the characteristics are illustrated with experimental data and modeling predictions. In fact, convective heat flow within TBCs usually makes a negligible contribution to the overall heat transfer through the coating, although what might be described as convection can be important if there are gross through-thickness defects such as segmentation cracks. Radiative heat transfer, on the other hand, can be significant within TBCs, depending on temperature and radiation scattering lengths, which in turn are sensitive to the grain structure and the pore architecture. Under most conditions of current interest, conductive heat transfer is largely predominant. However, it is not only conduction through solid ceramic that is important. Depending on the pore architecture, conduction through gas in the pores can play a significant role, particularly at the high gas pressures typically acting in gas turbines (although rarely applied in laboratory measurements of conductivity). The durability of the pore structure under service conditions is also of importance, and this review covers some recent work on how the pore architecture, and hence the conductivity, is affected by sintering phenomena. Some information is presented concerning the areas in which research and development work needs to be focussed if improvements in coating performance are to be achieved.
plasma spray coatings, pore connectivity, sintering, thermal barrier coatings, thermal conductivity, zironia
1059-9630
809-821
Golosnoy, I.O.
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Cipitria, A.
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Clyne, T.W.
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Golosnoy, I.O.
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Cipitria, A.
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Clyne, T.W.
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Golosnoy, I.O., Cipitria, A. and Clyne, T.W. (2009) Heat Transfer Through Plasma-Sprayed Thermal Barrier Coatings in Gas Turbines: A Review of Recent Work. Journal of Thermal Spray Technology, 18 (5-6), 809-821. (doi:10.1007/s11666-009-9337-y).

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A review is presented of how heat transfer takes place in plasma-sprayed (zirconia-based) thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) during operation of gas turbines. These characteristics of TBCs are naturally of central importance to their function. Current state-of-the-art TBCs have relatively high levels of porosity (~15%) and the pore architecture (i.e., its morphology, connectivity, and scale) has a strong influence on the heat flow. Contributions from convective, conductive, and radiative heat transfer are considered, under a range of operating conditions, and the characteristics are illustrated with experimental data and modeling predictions. In fact, convective heat flow within TBCs usually makes a negligible contribution to the overall heat transfer through the coating, although what might be described as convection can be important if there are gross through-thickness defects such as segmentation cracks. Radiative heat transfer, on the other hand, can be significant within TBCs, depending on temperature and radiation scattering lengths, which in turn are sensitive to the grain structure and the pore architecture. Under most conditions of current interest, conductive heat transfer is largely predominant. However, it is not only conduction through solid ceramic that is important. Depending on the pore architecture, conduction through gas in the pores can play a significant role, particularly at the high gas pressures typically acting in gas turbines (although rarely applied in laboratory measurements of conductivity). The durability of the pore structure under service conditions is also of importance, and this review covers some recent work on how the pore architecture, and hence the conductivity, is affected by sintering phenomena. Some information is presented concerning the areas in which research and development work needs to be focussed if improvements in coating performance are to be achieved.

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Published date: 15 December 2009
Keywords: plasma spray coatings, pore connectivity, sintering, thermal barrier coatings, thermal conductivity, zironia
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Local EPrints ID: 267635
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/267635
ISSN: 1059-9630
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Author: I.O. Golosnoy
Author: A. Cipitria
Author: T.W. Clyne

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