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North East Company wins funding to develop functional gradient design coatings


Researchers set to conduct studies to develop low cost customisable coatings that can coat 3D geometries whilst protecting against aggressive high temperature environments.


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onitor Coatings Ltd, a Surface Engineering


specialist in North


Tyneside has been cofunded by the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, to work in collaboration with Cranfield University, an industry focused exclusively post-graduate leader in research. The study, which started in September 2017, will use the process of exothermic reaction synthesis to modify low cost sprayed metallic surface coatings.


The need to reduce CO2


emissions is pushing thermal power plants to use higher operating temperatures and biomass/waste derived fuels, increasing the demand on heat exchanger tubes. The ‘ER-Sealcoat’ project aims to develop a low cost method of producing customisable coatings


IMT December 2017 www.internationalmetaltube.com


that can coat 3D geometries (internal and external) and protect against aggressive high temperature environments. The seal coating is produced as


a tailored slurry mix containing chemically active components, which react exothermically with the sprayed base coat. The heat released from this stored chemical


energy enhances diffusion and intermetallic formation with the basecoat, producing a sealed surface with a bespoke chemical gradient capable of


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