General Electric Company

Norbert O Maurer

Bangalore Aswatha Nagaraj

Andrew Jay Skoog

Jane Ann Murphy

Eric Alan Estill

Elissa H Lee

A gas turbine component has a platform, a shank extending downwardly from the platform, and an airfoil extending upwardly from the platform. The gas turbine component is coated by first applying a first chromide layer overlying the base metal of at least a portion of the shank and interdiffused therewith, and second applying a second coating on at least a portion of the airfoil. The second coating optionally includes a second chromide layer contacting the base metal of the airfoil and interdiffused therewith, and includes an aluminide protective layer overlying the second chromide layer. The first chromide layer on the shank and the second chromide layer on the airfoil may be within the same chromium composition range (for example, from about 20 to about 30 weight percent chromium) and thickness range (for example, from about 0.001 to about 0.002 inch), and deposited at the same time.

Coated turbine component and its fabrication

An air sprayable, fluid, non-metallic coating mixture to provide an article coating having the ability to reflect at least 75% of heat energy in the frequency range of up to 2.6 microns comprises the combination of two different alpha alumina powders. A first powder predominantly is in a particle size range of less than about 1 micron; a second powder is of a particle size greater than 7 times the particle size of the first powder. The mixture includes a glass powder having a melting point of at least about 1400&deg; F. and of a particle size less than about 45 microns. The mixture includes a binder that will form up to about 80% of its weight in silica when heated to a temperature of at least the melting point of the glass powder. In the article coating, provided by air spraying the mixture onto an article and heating to a temperature sufficient to melt the glass powder and to form the silica from the binder, the glass and silica form a matrix about and binding together the alumina powder.

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Loveland, OH, United States of America

Norbert O Maurer