Russian engineers have developed a new protective coating for aircraft engines, which will allow aircraft to operate safely in the harsh Arctic climate, said Sergey Grishin, a leading engineer at the NTI Competence Center.
According to him, engineers have created a protective coating for turbojet engines, the erosion resistance of which with equal thickness indicators is at least twice as high as that of foreign counterparts.
The coating has a number of unique properties. It is several times stronger than organosilicon coatings and significantly exceeds them in terms of adhesion to the surface of materials. There is practically no ice on engine parts with a new coating, while on those where the standard one was used, ice thickness can reach 7 mm. The abrasive wear of the surfaces protected by the coating is minimized.
The new coating can be used not only for aircraft engines, but also for protection against icing of electrical structures, roofs of houses, facades of buildings, as well as ships and equipment operating in the Arctic, vz.ru reports.
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