Objective
The reliability of large industrial sectors such as energy plants, process industry and transport are dependent on the functioning of the critical components. Especially safety critical components in heavy engineering, such as bearings, seals, shafts, barrels, rolls etc. are suffering sticking of the counterpart material. Often conventional lubrication oils cannot be used due to process environment, temperature or impurities. In order to ensure reliable function of the critical components self-lubricating wear resistance coatings are proposed. Thermal spray methods have been well established to produce wear resistant coatings for such components. However, tailored coatings including solid lubricants are not commercially available.
Research and development work of this project is divided into three technology areas: powder production, thermal spraying and tribology. Manufacturing techniques for powder production will be optimised to achieve the optimal powder structure for thermal spraying. Possible manufacturing techniques for coating powders are self-propagating high temperature synthesis (SHS) and agglomeration techniques. Novel powder processing opens possibilities for new powder compositions. Thermal spray coating process will be optimised for spraying powders containing solid lubricant materials for different application environments. Tribological tests will be done to determine tribological, wear and corrosion properties of the coatings containing solid lubricants. Controlling the whole manufacturing route from powder to coating enables tailoring the composition of coating according to application. A combination of novel powder manufacturing and HVOF coating technology will be achieved with co-operation of different European SME's.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology mechanical engineering tribology lubrication
- natural sciences chemical sciences inorganic chemistry inorganic compounds
- engineering and technology materials engineering coating and films
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FP6-2003-SME-1
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1000 ESPOO
Finland
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