CHECK: Coatings for Heat Exchangers to resist Corrosion & (K)

Completed

Energy Efficiency(Transport)
Fossil Fuels: Oil Gas and Coal(Oil and Gas, Oil and gas combustion)

Basic and strategic applied research

PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Metallurgy and Materials)

Not Cross-cutting

Professor A Atkinson
Materials
Imperial College London

Standard

EPSRC

01 June 2006

31 May 2008

24 months

£206,383

Aerospace; Defence and Marine; Chemicals; Transport Systems and Vehicles

London

User-Led Research

Professor A Atkinson, Materials, Imperial College London

Dr M Ryan, Materials, Imperial College London

The next generation of diesel powered vehicles will be required to meet demanding targets for fuel efficiency and exhaust emissions. Recirculating the exhaust gas has the potential to make a big contribution to this goal, but some of the heat energy must be removed with a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger needs to operate at elevated temperature and be resistant to corrosion and fouling by particulates emitted from the engine. Present economically viable materials cannot achieve this and so this project will develop a high temperature, antifouling corrosion resistant coating to make cheap materials (aluminium alloys and stainless steel) viable. Imperial College will develop the coatings and the undersatnding of their properties, particularly the forces that make the diesel soot particulates stick to the coating and how to prevent that. The information will be used by industrial partners to produce coated heat exchangers

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