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AssigneeMTU Motoren- und Turbinen-Union Muenchen GmbH
InventorsHorst Pillhoefer, Martin Thoma, Heinrich Walter, Peter Adam
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Inner and outer surfaces of structural components are aluminized by an aluminum gas diffusion process. For this purpose a gas mixture of a halogenous gas, aluminum monohalide gas, hydrogen, and negligible proportions of aluminum trihalide gas is caused to flow over the outer and inner surfaces of the component to be coated. The process is performed in a vessel in which at least two different temperature zones are maintained for keeping one or more aluminum sources at a higher temperature than the component to be coated. Especially gas turbine engine blades are protected against oxidation and corrosion by the so formed aluminum diffusion coatings on outer and inner surfaces of the blades.
An apparatus for aluminizing surfaces of a structural component, comprising a retort chamber, two aluminum sources in said retort chamber, means for heating different zones of said retort chamber to different temperatures, one of said zones having the highest temperature holding said aluminum sources, a first diffusion gas conduit for feeding a diffusion gas mixture through one of said aluminum sources for diffusion coating an outer surface of said structural component in said retort chamber, a second diffusion gas conduit for feeding a further diffusion gas mixture through the other of said aluminum sources for diffusion coating inner surfaces of said structural component in said retort chamber and a common gas discharge conduit connected to said retort chamber.
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