IMPACT - Innovative Materials Design and Monitoring of Power Plant to Accommodate Carbon Capture
Lead Participant:
E.ON TECHNOLOGIES (RATCLIFFE) LIMITED
Abstract
The key goal of IMPACT is to improve the efficiency of future steel-based coal-fired power plant, and hence reduce carbon emissions, by:
(1) Improved high temperature capability of welded thick section high alloy steel components in steam plant (boiler, pipework, turbine) by development of innovative materials and processes, including upscaling from laboratory development, a pilot commercial scale "MARBN" steel cast, and a demonstration welded boiler tubing product;
(2) Better understood, monitored and controlled performance of these welded components to maximise efficiency while avoiding premature weld Type IV cracking as found on current high alloy steel plant;
(3) Novel advanced in-service monitoring techniques to enable plant to operate at highest temperatures and challenging design conditions without prejudice to safety: creep strain monitoring to warn against plant failure risk, semi-nondestructive miniature disc sampling and testing to identify materials at risk;
(4) Improved component design capabilities linked to whole-life plant condition monitoring.
(1) Improved high temperature capability of welded thick section high alloy steel components in steam plant (boiler, pipework, turbine) by development of innovative materials and processes, including upscaling from laboratory development, a pilot commercial scale "MARBN" steel cast, and a demonstration welded boiler tubing product;
(2) Better understood, monitored and controlled performance of these welded components to maximise efficiency while avoiding premature weld Type IV cracking as found on current high alloy steel plant;
(3) Novel advanced in-service monitoring techniques to enable plant to operate at highest temperatures and challenging design conditions without prejudice to safety: creep strain monitoring to warn against plant failure risk, semi-nondestructive miniature disc sampling and testing to identify materials at risk;
(4) Improved component design capabilities linked to whole-life plant condition monitoring.
Lead Participant | Project Cost | Grant Offer |
|---|---|---|
| E.ON TECHNOLOGIES (RATCLIFFE) LIMITED | £347,111 | £ 161,300 |
Participant |
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| GOODWIN STEEL CASTINGS LIMITED | £248,445 | £ 115,751 |
| NPL MANAGEMENT LIMITED | £246,446 | £ 114,770 |
| LOUGHBOROUGH COLLEGE LOUGHBOROUGH | £105,370 | £ 105,370 |
| ALSTOM POWER LTD | £386,171 | £ 179,840 |
| DOOSAN BABCOCK LIMITED | £233,947 | £ 109,019 |
| RWE GENERATION UK PLC | £20,404 | £ 3,200 |
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