CHARACTERIZATION OF HIGH-TEMPERATURE GASEOUS ENVIRONMENTS

The object of much laboratory testing in high temperature gaseous environments is to simulate actual service conditions by duplicating the atmospheres in a thermodynamic sense. This is accomplished by generating similar oxidation, carburization and/or sulfidation potentials in laboratory tests which alloys may be expected to encounter in real processes. In this paper, atmospheres found in ethylene furnaces, steam reformers, high temperature helium cooled nuclear reactors, coal gasification reactors, and combustion systems were analyzed by the Brinkley method.