Standardisation of Thermal Cycling Exposure Testing

Professor Dr-Ing. Michael Schütze is Director of Karl-Winnacker-Institut der DECHEMA (The Society for Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology) in Frankfurt, Germany. He is also President of the European Federation of Corrosion (EFC) and Chair of the EFC Working Party 3 (Corrosion by Hot Gases and Combustion Products). Dr Maik Malessa works at Karl-Winnacker-Institut der DECHEMA (The Society for Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology) in Frankfurt, Germany.

Part 1 Methods and procedures in thermal cycling oxidation testing prior to COTEST: Survey of existing test procedures and experimental facilities; Compilation of cyclic oxidation data; Statistical analysis of cyclic oxidation data. Part 2 Experimental investigations on the influence of test parameter variation on thermal cycling oxidation behaviour: Standardised test procedures, definitions and statistical design of experiments for investigation of test parameter variation on thermal cycling oxidation testing; The effect of heating on the total oxidation time; Investigation of the influence of parameter variation in long dwell thermal cycling oxidation; Investigation of the influence of parameter variation in short dwell thermal cycling oxidation; Investigation of the influence of parameter variation in ultra short dwell thermal cycling oxidation; Burner rig thermal cycling oxidation testing; Thermal cycling oxidation testing in sulphidising atmospheres; Thermal cycling oxidation testing under deposits. Part 3 Code of practice: Validation testing of the code of practice and statistical analysis of experimental results; Final code of practice; Final remarks.