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Successful Development of Cobalt-Base High-Temperature Alloys:

A Major Step towards Higher Thermal Efficiency

and the Reduction of CO2 Emissions

 

In the components, which are used under high temperature such as in aircraft engines and industrial gas turbine, Nickel(Ni)-based heat-resistant superalloys are generally used because of its excellent heat-resistance properties.

 

Tohoku University research group headed by Prof. Kiyohito Ishida, Graduate School of Engineering, has succeeded in developing cobalt(Co)-based high temperature alloys having an even higher strength at high temperatures than the conventional Ni-base super alloys.

 

The research group has conducted studies to calculate on the alloy phase diagram, which shows structure and stability of phase in alloys using computing simulations.

A typical electron maicrograph taken from

the Co-Al-W superalloy. Cuboid    particles  strengthen the Co-based  alloy at high temperatures.

 

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Prof. Kiyohito Ishida

Graduate School of Engineering,

Tohoku University

Tel: +81-22-795-7321 Fax: +81-22-795-7321