Review of Ceramic Coating on Mild Steel Methods, Applications and Opportunities

Abstract

Ceramic coatings possess good thermal and electrical properties and they are resistant to oxidation and erosion in high temperature environments. This property is a very important factor in the applications such as pipelines, castings and automotive industry. Ceramic and metallic coatings for wear and corrosion protection of engineered structures applied by thermal spraying techniques have become a mainstay of surface engineering. This paper summarizes the recent technological advancement of ceramic coatings on Mild steel and also summarizes the current research, advanced ceramic coating materials and surface coating methods. New applications which have emerged from the past few years are described in this paper. Plasma spraying will be carried out using the atmospheric plasma spray system. Input DC power to the plasma torch will vary from 10 kW to 20 kW by controlling the arc current. In order to study the in-flight reaction of ceramic coating, a set of spheroidization experiments is carried out under identical conditions.