In an internal combustion engine, the heat energy approximately one third of total fuel input energy is converted to useful work. Since the exhaust gas temperature is not equal environmental temperature, so lot of heat energy lost with hot gases. Also heat energy is lost in cooling of engine. If we recovered heat energy which lost in cooling instead on crankshaft as useful work, then increase t...

The effects of coating formulation on thermal characteristics of coating layers (namely thermal diffusivity, specific heat capacity and heat conductivity) were systematically studied and their impact on xerography print quality was evaluated. Model coatings were prepared using ground calcium carbonate or kaolin pigment mixed with styrene butadiene latex binder in various proportions (from 6 to ...

Ceramic thermal barrier coatings are commonly used in gas turbine hot components (e.g., combustor liners/buckets and guide vane platforms). In components that are only partially coated or have cooling-air outlets, coating-end stress singularities may lead to the spallation of the coating. Depending on the geometry of the transition from coated to uncoated material, the severity of the stress si...

zinc coating is formed by the heterogeneous assembly of the γ, γ1, δ, ζ and η phases whose mechanicalproperties greatly differ from each other. thermal strains resulting from large differences betweenthermal expansion coefficients are partially relaxed by the formation of a crack network. in order tomodel this phenomenon, initial hardness, thermal expansion coefficient αi and toughness (kic) of...

Zinc coating is formed by the heterogeneous assembly of the Γ, Γ1, δ, ζ and η phases whose mechanical properties greatly differ from each other. Thermal strains resulting from large differences between thermal expansion coefficients are partially relaxed by the formation of a crack network. In order to model this phenomenon, initial hardness, thermal expansion coefficient αi and toughness (KIC)...

This paper presents the coating thickness effect on the stress distribution of a coated cylinder head. A typical thermal barrier coating was applied on a diesel engine cylinder head. Thus, the residual stress which occurred during the plasma thermal spraying was also considered. The coating system consisted of two layers a metallic bond coat and a ceramic top coat. The bond coat thickness is co...

In the present paper, a complete literatures review of thermal barrier coating applications in diesel engines is performed to select a proper type and to find coating effects. The coating system has effects on the fuel consumption, the power and the combustion efficiency, pollution contents and the fatigue lifetime of engine components. Usually there are several beneficial influences by appl...

In this study two commonly used steels in boiler plants, i.e. (SAE-213) T-22 and SA516 (Grade-70) were coated with different thermal spray processes namely HVOF and cold spray. The coating powder used was made up of NiCrTiCRe powder. The performance of the coated as well as uncoated material was investigated using a pin-on-disc machine [Model: Wear and Friction Monitor Tester TR-20], supplied b...

We demonstrate an approach for determining the “effective” Ehrlich-Schwoebel ES step-edge barrier, an important kinetic constant to control the interlayer mass transport in epitaxial growth of thin films. The approach exploits the rate difference between the growth and/or decay of an adatom and a vacancy twodimensional island, which allows the “effective” ES barrier to be determined uniquely by...