Abstract
Development of anti-corrosion and wear-resistant materials in FLiNaK molten salt is vital to the service safety and reliability of the various mechanical systems for the molten salt reactor. In this work, a WC-12Co coating was fabricated by detonation gun spraying technique. Its microstructure, mechanical properties and tribological behaviors in FLiNaK molten salt were studied. A ball-on-disk rotary configuration was selected for the tribological test, in which the WC-12Co coating disks slid against Al2O3, SiC, Si3N4 and steel counterface materials in FLiNaK molten salt and low-oxygen environment at 600 °C. The results showed that the WC-12Co coating displays a low porosity of 0.71%, a bonding strength of above 44 MPa and good anti-corrosion in molten salt. FLiNaK molten salt provides the good lubricity and inhibits the oxidation wear of the WC-12Co coating, contributing to the low friction coefficient of 0.097–0.17 and wear rate of (4.95–8.40) × 10−7 mm3N−1m−1.
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