Natural Gas Fired Zero-emission Power Plant (GAS-ZEP) - Materials Work Package.

Completed

Other Power and Storage Technologies(Electric power conversion)

Basic and strategic applied research

PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Physics)

Not Cross-cutting

Mr JE Oakey
School of Applied Sciences
Cranfield University

Standard

EPSRC

04 November 2002

03 November 2005

36 months

£252,097

Energy

East of England

Materials Foresight Link -- Materials, Mechanical and Medical Eng

Mr JE Oakey, School of Applied Sciences, Cranfield University

Project Contact, Cranfield University
Project Contact, Babcock International Group plc
Project Contact, Alstom Energy Technology Centre
Project Contact, C J Day Associates
Project Contact, University of Ulster
Project Contact, RWE Innogy
Project Contact, National Museums Liverpool
Project Contact, New College Lanarkshire

This EPSRC proposal forms part of a Foresight LINK proposal led by ALSTOM Power aimed at the conceptual design of a natural gas 'semi-closed CO2 cycle' unit (GAS-ZEP). This concept offers 100% removal of CO2 and less than 1ppm NOx emissions. The purpose of this EPSRC proposal is to develop the knowledge required o materials performance inhigh pressure CO2/steam environments to support the conceptual design; many of the system components will operate at conditions not experiencedin other industrial systems and so little directly relevant information exist. The proposal comprises a review of the limited existing data from technologies with similar operating environments (e.g. advanced gas cooled reactors) and the execution of a systematic research programme to determine the oxidation/corrosion performance of current industrial and other candidate materials and coatings for duty in the CO2/steam environments of the GAS-ZEP system components - gas turbine, waste heat recovery boiler and CO2/steam separator

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