TBC process condition monitoring in a production environment

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I objective is to implement sensors in a production environment to optimize the thermal spray TBC coating process. The principle goal of this SBIR partnership between a small business such as Plasma Technology Inc. and Center for Thermal Spray Research at Stony Brook University is to bring to bear the integrated strategy in plasma spraying under development at Stony Brook Industrial Consortium for Thermal Spray Technology for enhancing reliability and reproducibility of thermal barrier coatings as applied to Air Force engines. To this end, we will strategically investigate and demonstrate particle state sensing/analysis and in-situ coating property sensing/analysis for fabrication of reliable TBCs.