IMPULSE - Advanced Industrial Manufacture of Next-Generation MARBN Steel for Cleaner Fossil Plant

Completed

Other Power and Storage Technologies(Electric power conversion)
Fossil Fuels: Oil Gas and Coal(Coal, Coal combustion)
Fossil Fuels: Oil Gas and Coal(Oil and Gas, Oil and gas combustion)

Basic and strategic applied research

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering)

Not Cross-cutting

Dr W Sun
Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering
University of Nottingham

Standard

EPSRC

01 February 2016

31 December 2019

47 months

£171,430

Manufacturing

East Midlands

Energy : Energy

Dr W Sun, Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Nottingham

Professor A Becker, Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Nottingham
Dr C Hyde, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham

NB Grants EP/N509978/1, EP/N509991/1 and EP/N509942/1 are linked

IMPULSE will work with novel "MARBN" high temperature steel, recently developed in TSB project "IMPACT" and shown to offer capability for an increase in steam power plant temperature of 25 degrees C. IMPULSE, whose consortium includes most IMPACT members together with new pipe, welding and innovative research partners, will take MARBN from the laboratory on to full-scale industrial manufacture of ingot castings, pipework, and weldments. This will improve efficiency and reliability of current and future steel-based steam power plant, and thus increase security of supply and reduce cost and carbon emissions. MARBN 8-tonne ingot casting technology will be developed, and following high temperature (to1250 degrees C+) testing and manufacturing simulation, two full-scale pipe extrusion trials will be undertaken, with product validation by testing and electron metallography. Matching welding consumables will also be developed, qualified and tested. Long term creep and creep-fatigue data generation will feed into performance validation, materials standardisation, and pressure vessel design codes. Interaction with the KMM-VIN collaboration will enable constructive interchange with parallel European projects. The Nottingham team will provide the required expertise for testing MARBN specimens under creep and creep-fatigue conditions and developing the fatigue life model and the associated Finite Element modelling capabilities to enable the life prediction of welded MARBN pipes under flexible power plant operating conditions

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