Hitachi, Ltd.

The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Incorporated

Akihiko Chiba

Yoshitaka Kojima

Akira Mebata

Norio Watanabe

Yukiyoshi Hara

Ryoichiro Ohoshima

Noriyuki Ohnaka

A gas turbine bucket and a gas turbine nozzle applied with a ceramic coating comprises a base material of the bucket and the nozzle made of a heat resisting alloy; a plurality of coating layers for the front portion consisting of, a mixture layer which comprises a ceramic material and metal and which is formed on the base material, an alloy layer which comprises an alloy material exhibiting excellent resistance to high temperature oxidation and corrosion and which is formed on the mixture layer, and a ceramic layer which comprises ceramic material and formed on the alloy layer. Such ceramic coating has a satisfactory thermal barrier effect on the base material of the gas turbine bucket and nozzle.

Ceramics-coated heat resisting alloy member

A ceramic-coated heat resisting alloy member comprises a base metal mainly composed of at least one of nickel, cobalt and iron; a mixture layer which is deposited on the external surface of the base metal and which comprises a ceramics and a metal; an alloy layer which is formed between the mixture layer and a ceramic coating layer formed as an outermost layer and which comprises an alloy material exhibiting excellent resistance to high temperature oxidation and excellent resistance to high temperature corrosion. It is therefore possible to prevent any high temperature oxidation and high temperature corrosion of the mixture layer and to enable the mixture layer to have a satisfactory function of reducing the thermal stress produced between the ceramic coating layer and the base metal. The ceramic coating thus has a satisfactory thermal barrier effect on the base metal. In addition, it is therefore possible to provide the ceramic-coated heat resisting alloy member as a useful structural member for improving the power efficiency of gas turbine plants used for power generation.

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