... 2010 20 10 2010 boilers grain boundaries oxidation sputtered coatings Fireside oxidation and corrosion of boiler tubes continues to be the number one issue resulting in forced outages and lowering the boiler availability for conventional coal-fired fossil power plants...

... magnetic induction thickness gage accurate to within ± 5 % is completed on all cylindrically magnetron sputtered coatings. Thickness profile of sputtered Ta over a 650 mm segment of a 120 mm tube section First, in considering a replacement coating system for HC–Cr...