Effects of various power process parameters on deposition efficiency of plasma-sprayed Al2O3-40% wt.TiO2 coatings

To investigate effects of various power process parameters on deposition efficiency, Al2O3-40% wt.TiO2 is selected as raw material to be coated on Q235 steel substrate by air plasma spraying. Different variables of spraying current and voltage are designed, whose spraying power is from 12.8 KW to 16.8 KW and increment step is 0.8 KW. Deposition thickness is proposed as a simple method to characterize the deposition efficiency of coatings. Analysis of variance is used to observe the difference between two adjacent groups. It is shown that deposition efficiency increases with the increase of spraying current; by and large, it firstly rises and then decreases with the increment of spraying voltage. However, the effects of increasing the latter are much stronger on deposition efficiency.