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Using a halide-activated pack-cementation method but at a temperature (600 degrees C) noticeably lower than normal, an eta-Fe(2)Al(5) coating and two delta-Ni(2)Al(3) coatings with and without dispersions of CeO(2) nanoparticles were developed respectively on a low-carbon steel and the steel pretreated with an electrodeposited film of Ni or Ni-CeO(2). The erosion-corrosion (E-C) performance of the three aluminide coatings during 100 h exposure at similar to 600 degrees C in a coal-firing laboratory-scale fluidized-bed combustor (FBC) was investigated, by mounting the aluminized samples onto a rig which maintained rotation for accelerating the relative impacting speed of flying solid particles (mainly SiO(2) bed materials). The eta-Fe(2)Al(5) and the CeO(2)-free delta-Ni(2)Al(3) coatings experienced an unacceptable recession rate. Compared to the two CeO(2)-free aluminide coatings, the CeO(2)-dispersed delta-Ni(2)Al(3) coating offered profoundly improved E-C resistance, because the latter coating was not only strengthened by the CeO(2) dispersion and grain refinement, it also could grow a more adherent alumina scale. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.