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Besides offering advantages for transitioning  U.S. coal based systems for reducing CO2 emissions these materials offer benefits for use in solar,  nuclear and other power generation scenarios.  As a spin off benefit,  a domestic supply chain leading the world for making components from these advanced  materials will be established to include a number of Ohio firms being qualified for future applications with both domestic and export opportunities.

This phase of the AUSC program is estimated to be finished by late 2021 as all precompetitive efforts will have been completed. It will end a twenty year, $100million development project led by Energy Industries of Ohio that included participation by all US boiler and turbine manufacturers, key utility companies, the Electric Power Research Institute, and a number of suppliers who co funded the effort along with the Ohio Coal Development Office and the U.S. Department of Energy.  This program's coordinated and shared research has enabled the project's partners to develop cutting edge technology and vast intellectual property that looks to benefit the United States.

Since 2001 a U.S. public/private Advanced Ultrasupercritical (AUSC) Materials consortium has been led by EIO to find means to operate fossil fueled power plants at higher temperatures to reduce emissions.  The AUSC technology is now ready to be demonstrated under this full scale Component Test (ComTest) planned for Ohio. The project team under EIO's leadership has been able to locate a suitable site at the former Ohio Edison plant which is now the Youngstown Thermal District heating plant.  Additional infrastructure will be constructed to accommodate the test and EIO plans to install the first AUSC turbine on site. "This is very positive news not only for moving the technology forward but for sub-tier opportunities for Ohio's manufacturing industries as well" according to Bob Purgert, EIO President.  He continued "The need for castings from Ohio's foundries, forgings and fabrication of products along with job training for skills needed to weld and install the equipment will directly benefit Ohio workers. The timeliness of the test could not be more critical in view of the proposed Clean Power Plan."

In addition to the prototype AUSC steam turbine, Energy Industries of Ohio will also test components that deliver steam to the turbine including a superheater, boiler tube membrane wall, desuperheater, steam headers, and main steam piping.

A serious drawback of HIP/PM has been the canisters required to produce the parts. The cans (or outside skins of the powder metallurgy container) are currently formed by bending and welding low carbon steel sheet metal, constraining the complexity and shape. Under this program, EIO successfully demonstrated that 3D Printing could be used to fabricate the canisters, saving time and money and enabling larger, more complex parts to be mass produced.  The project went one step further and creatively proved that these cans could be made from the same material as the final part, thus eliminating post processing. As a final achievement, the project showed that combining HIP/PM with AM created as robust a part as one produced by AM alone, thus offering a cost effective alternative to the more expensive 3DP.  EIO's Report is posted on the DOE website www.osti.gov.

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