Efecto de la incorporación de Hf en el crecimiento de los recubrimientos de Al sobre aceros ferrítico-martensíticos mediante CVD-FBR Effect of Hf on the growth of Al coatings on- martensite ferritic by means of CVD-FBR steels

In recent decades, there has been a marked interest for increasing the temperature and vapor pressure in the power generation plants with the aim of reducing fuel consumption. So, there would be a reduction in the emissions of pollutants such as CO2, SO2 and NOx. To achieve these improvements, it is required on one hand, to develop new ferritic-martensitic steels with Cr contents between 9-12% and on the other hand, to improve resistance against oxidation of the existing ones by using surface engineering. For this reason, the following work is intended to obtain Al and Al-Hf coatings and evaluate the effect of the addition of Hf to the bed on the growth of the coating of Al. In order to optimize the deposition process, a thermodynamic study was conducted using Themocalc program. Al and Al-Hf layers were deposited at three different temperatures in the range of 500 to 600 o C. The coatings were subsequently characterized by DRX and SEM / EDS. According to the results, it was found that for both cases, the layers were mainly formed by intermetallic compounds Fe2Al5 and FeAl3. ----