Subtopic 2B: Materials for Ultra Supercritical Steam (USC) Turbines

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Subtopic 2B: Materials for Ultra Supercritical Steam (USC) Turbines: Program Area of Interest 2: Power Systems Advanced Research Background: Advanced Research provides the means by which advanced concepts are transformed into future working technologies. Improvement of our energy infrastructure, which includes power plants, power transmission systems, fuel production and transportation systems, co-production of higher value products (such as chemicals), environmental protection and remediation efforts, is dependent on research. This research must produce technologies that meet the performance specifications for hostile operating conditions, economic constraints of advanced industrial applications, and public demands for a cleaner environment, reliability, and low consumer cost. Advanced Research develops fundamental understandings of relationships among energy processes, their performance requirements, and the environment, including: a) basic information and knowledge needed to bridge the gap between fundamental science and advanced engineering development programs; and b) innovative concepts and ideas that enhance the pace of technology innovation for fossil energy systems. These crosscutting activities involve research having applications in many, if not all, coal and gas power generation and coal fuels technology areas. Overall Program Goals Develop the scientific knowledge base for the development of revolutionary technologies and processes with substantial improvements and advances in power, environmental, and fuel systems, and that will be an integral part of meeting the coal and power systems strategic goals. Research Objectives for Program Area of Interest 2 Subtopics Program Area of Interest 2 has three subtopics, Subtopic 2A: Novel High Temperature Materials for In-situ Sensing Devices; Subtopic 2B: Materials for Ultra Supercritical Steam (USC) Turbines, and Subtopic 2C: Advanced Power Plant Simulation. NOTE: The project narrative for Program Areas of Interest 1, 2 and 3 shall not exceed 30 pages (excluding the cover page and table of contents). Subtopic 2B: Materials for Ultra Supercritical Steam (USC) Turbines Funding Opportunity Announcement No. DE-PS26-04NT42249-2B The goal of the Fossil Energy Advanced Research (AR) Materials Program is to provide a materials technology base to assure the success of coal fuels and advanced power generation systems being pursued by DOE FE. The Program emphasizes R D directed toward solving materials issues of a longer-term nature for those advanced technologies being developed for coal and advanced power systems. In one significant project, Energy Industries of Ohio, and a consortium of boiler manufacturers (USC Consortium) are teaming with EPRI and Oak Ridge National Laboratory to develop suitable materials for ultra supercritical steam conditions. Efficiency gains of at least 8 to 10% are expected through the materials technology being developed in this collaborative U.S. program, enabling coal-based electricity generation at competitive rates with substantially reduced releases of carbon dioxide and fuel-related pollutants. An essential feature of the FE Materials program is the construction of a materials technology base and facilitation of technology transfer to meet the needs of high-efficiency fossil energy systems. To enhance the current effort on USC steam cycles for power generation, there is a need to begin investigating the materials issues for advanced steam turbines. It is envisioned that a single project, consisting primarily of bench-scale research, would be accepted under this requirement. The research would focus on fundamental materials issues that would lead to design concepts for advanced steam turbines. Research would be on the base materials technology needed to design steam turbines to match the ultra super critical (USC) boiler steam conditions (up to 760oC/35Mpa). The lack of materials with the necessary fabricability and fracture toughness, and adequate resistance to creep, oxidation, corrosion, and thermal fatigue at the higher steam temperatures and pressures currently limit the adoption of advanced USC steam conditions in pulverized coal-fired plants. The steam conditions envisaged for the USC steam turbine are well beyond the envelope of current experience. Different parts of the turbine are exposed to different stress/temperature/ environment conditions for a given set of steam entry conditions. The distribution of these conditions needs to be defined in order to define the material properties required. The material property requirements are a strong function of design, thus the two must be considered concurrently. IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT YOU READ THE FUNDING OPPORTUNITY MASTER ANNOUNCEMENT.doc (SEE THE LINK BELOW) FOR PERTINENT INFORMATION (HOW TO PREPARE AN APPLICATION, FUNDING LIMITATIONS, PAGE LIMITATIONS, ETC.) IN ORDER TO SUBMIT AN APPLICATION FOR CONSIDERATION. https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/faopor.nsf/1be0f2271893ba198525644b006bc0be/a32ab5 fbea345d9785256edd0079cb25?OpenDocument