IMPLANT - Advanced Materials and Manufacturing for Improved Power and Process Plant Performance

IMPLANT - 先进材料和制造，可提高电力和加工厂的性能

• 批准号: 105769
• 金额: $ 116.29万
• 依托单位: EUROPEAN TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Study
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=105769
• 关键词: IMPLANT; Advanced; Materials; Manufacturing; Improved

Recent UK collaborative R&D projects have developed a novel high temperature "MARBN" type alloy, IBN1, which enables a 25°C operating temperature increase in new steam power plant, and can thereby deliver major CO2 emission savings. IMPLANT is an experienced consortium which brings together industrial and academic partners to seek innovative advances in both materials and manufacturing, thus enabling commercial market success for thick section cast IBN1 pressurised components in future boiler and turbine plant.IMPLANT will pursue innovative developments in superclean materials technology, controlled microstructural development through solidification simulation, and novel heat treatment to promote grain refinement. This will maintain and extend IBN1's competitive edge over "lookalike" competitor products. In parallel, IMPLANT will develop a novel manufacturing concept for boiler plant manufacture -- that thick section IBN1 steam headers can be made by shaped casting, with improved design to minimise the risk of weld cracking in service, making a cast product highly competitive with conventional wrought and welded headers.IMPLANT will thus create a unified UK materials and manufacturing supply chain for thick-section boiler and turbine components, in a new generation of world-leading ultrasupercritical steam plant, for a projected annual global market of £15BN. This will meet the buoyant Far Eastern demand for low emission coal, gas and biomass fired plant projected by international agencies into the medium term, and will also meet longer term demand for chemical process plant, high temperature nuclear, and thermal solar energy generation. The conservatively projected 1% UK market share, worth £41M in terms of the net present value of estimated future profits, represents a x25 return on the IMPLANT investment.IBN1 will also play a key role in Western component replacement markets. Its superior strength will help current fossil plant meet the onerous flexible operation conditions which are required to support increased deployment of intermittent wind and solar generation.IBN1 is a maturing material technology now close to commercialisation -- but innovation is as vital as ever. IBN1 must compete globally on price, sentiment, quality, experience -- and its crucial technical edge. Provided IBN1 continues to advance, both in metallurgical performance and engineering application, the UK can stay ahead of the competition.Finally, IMPLANT will undertake over 500,000 machine-hours of high temperature testing to generate long term data for component design. IMPLANT will then take the key final steps to full-scale commercialisation -- IBN1 certification by European authorities, and future US ASME Code approval.

最近，英国合作研发项目开发了一种新型高温“MARBN”型合金IBN1，该合金可将新蒸汽发电厂的工作温度提高25°C，从而节省大量二氧化碳排放。IMPLANT是一个经验丰富的联盟，汇集了工业和学术合作伙伴，寻求材料和制造方面的创新进步，从而使厚段铸造IBN1加压部件在未来的锅炉和涡轮机工厂取得商业市场上的成功。IMPLANT将在超净材料技术、通过凝固模拟控制微观组织发展和新型热处理促进晶粒细化方面追求创新发展。这将保持和扩展IBN1相对于“相似”的竞争产品的竞争优势。与此同时，IMPLANT将为锅炉厂制造开发一种新的制造理念——厚段IBN1蒸汽集管可以通过成型铸造制造，改进设计以最大限度地降低使用中焊接开裂的风险，使铸造产品与传统的锻造和焊接集管相比具有很强的竞争力。因此，在新一代世界领先的超临界蒸汽工厂中，IMPLANT将为厚段锅炉和涡轮机部件创建一个统一的英国材料和制造供应链，预计全球年市场规模为150亿英镑。这将满足国际机构预测的中期远东地区对低排放煤、天然气和生物质发电厂的旺盛需求，也将满足化学处理厂、高温核能和热太阳能发电的长期需求。保守估计1%的英国市场份额，按估计未来利润的净现值计算，价值4100万英镑，代表了植入投资的x25回报。IBN1还将在西方零部件更换市场发挥关键作用。其优越的强度将帮助目前的化石电厂满足繁重的灵活运行条件，这些条件要求支持间歇性风能和太阳能发电的增加部署。IBN1是一种成熟的材料技术，现在已接近商业化，但创新与以往一样至关重要。IBN1必须在价格、人气、质量、体验以及关键的技术优势等方面展开全球竞争。如果IBN1在冶金性能和工程应用方面继续发展，英国可以保持领先地位。最后，IMPLANT将进行超过50万机器小时的高温测试，为组件设计提供长期数据。然后，IMPLANT将采取全面商业化的关键最后步骤——通过欧洲当局的IBN1认证，以及未来美国ASME规范的批准。