Objective
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The objective of the PROTECT project is to develop an industrially usable process for deposition of high quality Thermal Barrier Coatings (TBCs), which meet industry specifications, onto gas turbine blades by Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD) technology. To achieve this aim a research consortium of 5 industrial partners and 2research centres have come together to share resources and expertise. The project will initially focus on laboratory scale development of CVD techniques to deposit TBCs having the crucially important columnar structure, which contributes to good thermo-mechanical stress resistance in service. Specially selected organo-metallic precursor chemicals will be used. The process will be optimised to produce acceptably high deposition rates and carbon free coatings with uniformity of thickness. A specialist CVD equipment manufacturer will design and construct a pilot scale CVD reactor and a commercial coating company will optimise the new process at pilot scale. Turbine blades, with thermal barrier coatings deposited by the new process, will be rigorously tested to industry specifications by the research centres and by the partner who is a gas turbine manufacturer. The industrial partners involved in PROTECT consist of a gas turbine manufacturer, a company which provides a coating service to the gas turbine industry, an end-user in the power generation industry, an equipment manufacturer and a specialist chemicals manufacturer. They are well positioned to exploit the new technology in the land based and the aero gas turbine sectors, thus contributing to increased engine efficiencies and reduced fuel consumption. BE97-4634
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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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 materials engineering coating and films
- engineering and technology environmental engineering energy and fuels
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50127 Firenze
Italy
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