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In many industrial processes, the flow rate of hot gaseous service environments may be in the range of several m/s. In the present paper, the effect of gas flow rate on the high temperature oxidation behaviour of alloy 625 in wet air is presented. The gas velocity was varied from near static conditions to linear gas flow rates up to 6 m/s. The oxidation kinetics were studied by gravimetry during cyclic/discontinuous testing at 900 and 1000 °C. The oxide scales and the subsurface depletion zones formed during exposure were studied by light optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive X‐ray analysis and, for selected specimens, by electron backscatter diffraction. It was found that Cr loss due to formation of volatile species is substantially enhanced by high gas flow rates thus significantly influencing the oxidation limited life time of the oxidising component. Within the studied range of flow rates no plateau value was reached, the Cr loss being substantially larger at a flow of 6 m/s than at 0.7 m/s. Additionally, it was found that geometrical factors of the test specimen substantially affected the extent of volatile species formation. Especially the leading edge of the specimen exhibited more extensive Cr loss than the other specimen areas.

Corrosion Behavior of Metallic Materials for Innovative Gasification ProcessesMetallic materials for highly stressed oxygen nozzles and recovery boilers were studied in respect to their corrosion resistance in H 2 /H 2 O/H 2 S laboratory test gas. Screening tests using ferritic and austenitic steels and nickel-base alloys were carried out and from the results promising alloys selected and tested at various temperatures. With one exception, all alloys show bell-shape temperature dependence of the oxidation kinetics. Results from studies on model alloys will be used to derive optimised alloy compositions which exhibit protective oxide scale formation in the whole temperature range considered in the present studies. Keywords

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