Projects
Projects: Projects for Investigator |
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| Reference Number | EP/N509978/1 | |
| Title | IMPULSE - Advanced Industrial Manufacture of Next-Generation MARBN Steel for Cleaner Fossil Plant | |
| Status | Completed | |
| Energy Categories | Other Power and Storage Technologies(Electric power conversion) 40%; Fossil Fuels: Oil Gas and Coal(Coal, Coal combustion) 20%; Fossil Fuels: Oil Gas and Coal(Oil and Gas, Oil and gas combustion) 40%; |
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| Research Types | Basic and strategic applied research 100% | |
| Science and Technology Fields | PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Metallurgy and Materials) 100% | |
| UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation | Not Cross-cutting 100% | |
| Principal Investigator |
Dr M Strangwood No email address given Metallurgy and Materials University of Birmingham |
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| Award Type | Standard | |
| Funding Source | EPSRC | |
| Start Date | 01 February 2016 | |
| End Date | 31 January 2019 | |
| Duration | 36 months | |
| Total Grant Value | £85,818 | |
| Industrial Sectors | Energy; Manufacturing | |
| Region | West Midlands | |
| Programme | Energy : Energy | |
| Investigators | Principal Investigator | Dr M Strangwood , Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham (100.000%) |
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| Objectives | NB Grants EP/N509978/1, EP/N509991/1 and EP/N509942/1 are linked | |
| Abstract | 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 K. 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 (to 1250degreesC+) 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 Birmingham team will characterise the grain structure and pinning particles in billet to be pierced and extruded into pipe. A Gleeble thermo-mechanical simulator will compress samples representing this range of structures to varying strains at temperatures and strain rates suitable for hot extrusion to determine the flow stress behaviour and resulting grain sizes will be measured. Additionally, ring-shaped samples will be compressed (same temperatures and rates) between instrumented tools to determine heat transfer and friction coefficients. These data will be used in an FE-based model to simulate the extrusion process so that process parameters (temperature, strain and strain rate) to develop the correct microstructure after welding and heat treatment can be determined. | |
| Publications | (none) |
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| Final Report | (none) |
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| Added to Database | 23/08/16 | |
