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Enhanced Oxygen Diffusion Within the Internal Oxidation Zone of Alloy 617 in Controlled Impurity Helium Environments from 1023 K to 1123 K (750 °C to 850 °C)

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Alloy 617 was exposed to He-CO-CO2 environments with \( P_{\text{CO}} /P_{{{\text{CO}}_{2} }} \) of either 9 or 1320 at temperatures from 1023 K to 1123 K (750 °C to 850 °C) to determine the oxygen diffusion coefficients within the internal oxidation zone of the alloy. The oxygen diffusion coefficients determined based on both intergranular and transgranular oxidation rates were several orders of magnitude greater than those reported in pure nickel and in nickel-based binary alloys, indicating that the rapid internal aluminum oxidation of Alloy 617 was primarily due to enhanced oxygen diffusion along the incoherent Al2O3-alloy interfaces. The range of activation energy values determined for oxygen diffusion associated with the intergranular aluminum oxidation was from 149.6 to 154.7 kJ/mol, and that associated with the transgranular aluminum oxidation was from 244.7 to 283.5 kJ/mol.

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This research was funded by the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Programs under award 00087993. The authors also acknowledge NSF awards DMR-0320740 that made possible the acquisition of the FEI Nova Dual FIB Workstation/SEM at the University of Michigan Electron Microbeam Analysis Laboratory.

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Gulsoy, G., Was, G.S. Enhanced Oxygen Diffusion Within the Internal Oxidation Zone of Alloy 617 in Controlled Impurity Helium Environments from 1023 K to 1123 K (750 °C to 850 °C). Metall Mater Trans A 46, 1628–1638 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-015-2741-7

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