Current High Performance Materials R&D Portfolio
Projects grouped by generic technical solutions
Advanced repair processes
| Prime performer |
Agreement number* |
Project title |
Total award value |
|---|
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
FWP-FEAA119 |
Microstructure and Properties of Ni-based Components fabricated by Additive Manufacturing |
$954,000 |
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
FWP-FEAA372 |
Novel Transition Joint for Dissimilar Metal Welds by Solid-State Manufacturing Processes for New Installation and Replacement |
$310,000 |
AUSC alloy qualification
| Prime performer |
Agreement number* |
Project title |
Total award value |
|---|
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
FWP-FEAA125 |
Properties of Advanced Ni-Based Alloys for A-USC Steam Turbines |
$2,160,000 |
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
FWP-FEAA117 |
Materials Qualification and Deployment for High Efficiency Coal Fired Boilers |
$820,000 |
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
FWP-FEAA133 |
Low Cost High Performance Austenitic Stainless Steels for A-USC |
$1,590,000 |
AUSC component design
| Prime performer |
Agreement number* |
Project title |
Total award value |
|---|
| Energy Industries of Ohio, Inc. |
FE0025064 |
Advanced Ultra-Supercritical Component Testing |
$26,750,822 |
Computational modeling
| Prime performer |
Agreement number* |
Project title |
Total award value |
|---|
| Strategic Power Systems, Inc (with Oak Ridge National Laboratory) |
HPC4 Materials |
Utilizing High Peformance Computational Analysis to Characterize the Operating Envelop of Various NGCC Operating Technologies -- HPC4Materials |
$500,000 |
| United Technologies Research Center (with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) |
HPC4 Materials |
Understanding Complex, Coupled Mechanisms of Oxidation and Hot Corrosion Degradation with Computational Models |
$360,000 |
| Pratt & Whitney (with Oak Ridge National Laboratory) |
HPC4 Materials |
Predicting Limit Rub Response in Advanced Gas Turbine Engines |
$395,554 |
| Siemens Energy Inc (with Los Alamos National Laboratory) |
HPC4 Materials |
High Performance Particle Based Modeling of Damage Nucleation from Forging Flaws in Fossil Power Generation Rotor Components |
$382,000 |
| VAST Power Systems Inc (with Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Argonne) |
HPC4 Materials |
Ultra-Clean Transient Turbine Combustor |
$300,000 |
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
FWP-FEAA128 |
Components Fabricated by Additive Manufacturing |
$900,000 |
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
FWP-FEAA137 |
Probabilistic Life Assessment and Aged Materials Testing for Service Feedback of Gas Turbine Components |
$900,000 |
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
FWP-FEAA151 |
Development of Functionally Graded Transition Joints to Enable Dissimilar Metal Welds |
$1,000,000 |
| QuesTek Innovations, LLC |
SC0015922 |
Improved Models of Long-Term Creep Behavior of High Performance Structural Alloys for Existing and Advanced Technologies Fossil Energy Power Plants |
$1,164,586 |
| Missouri State University |
FE0031554 |
Multi-modal Approach to Modeling Creep Deformation In Ni-Base Superalloys |
$918,370 |
| Pennsylvania State University |
FE0031553 |
High Throughput Computational Framework of Materials Properties for Extreme Environments |
$937,836 |
High temperature alloy design
| Prime performer |
Agreement number* |
Project title |
Total award value |
|---|
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
FWP-FEAA118 |
Weldability of Creep Resistant Alloys for Advanced Power Plants |
$1,800,000 |
| National Energy Technology Laboratory |
FWP-1022406 |
Advanced Alloy Development |
$6,544,606 |
Material life prediction modeling
| Prime performer |
Agreement number* |
Project title |
Total award value |
|---|
| Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. (Funded by TPG) |
FE0031562 |
Characterization of Long-Term Service Coal Combustion Power Plant Extreme Environment Materials (EEMs) |
$2,500,000 |
| Vacuum Process Engineering Inc (with Sandia National Lab) |
HPC4 Materials |
Compact Diffusion Bonded Heat Exchanger Fatigue Life Simulations |
$300,000 |
| General Electric Company (Funded by MSA) |
FE0031823 |
Damage Accumulations Predictions for Boiler Components Via Macrostructurally Informed Material Models |
$907,084 |
| Strategic Power systems, Inc (with National Energy Technology Laboratory) |
HPC4 Materials |
An Investigation of the Effect of Cyclic Operation on HRSG and Coal-fired Boiler Tubes - Failures Induced by High Thermal Stress and Component Fatigue |
$500,000 |
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
FWP-FEAA115 |
Creep-Fatigue-Oxidation Interactions: Predicting Alloy Lifetimes under Fossil Energy Service Conditions |
$1,500,000 |
| Idaho National Laboratory |
FWP-B000-14029 |
Physics-based Creep Simulation of Thick Section Welds in High Temperature and Pressure Applications |
$955,000 |
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
FWP-FEAA144 |
Effect of Impurities on Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Compatibility |
$1,650,000 |
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
FWP-FEAA150 |
Steamside Oxidation Issues in Current Coal-Fired Boilers |
$900,000 |
| Southern Research Institute |
FE0031811 |
Life Modelling of Critical Steam Cycle Components in Coal-Fueled Power Plants |
$862,345 |
| University of Texas at El Paso |
FE0030331 |
An Accelerated Creep Testing Program for Advanced Creep Resistant Alloys for High Temperature Fossil Energy Applications |
$400,000 |
Novel manufacturing methods
| Prime performer |
Agreement number* |
Project title |
Total award value |
|---|
| Siemens Corporation |
FE0031824 |
Welding of Haynes 282 to Steels to Enable Modular Rotors for Advanced Ultra Super-Critical Steam Turbines |
$1,408,866 |
| General Electric Company |
FE0031818 |
Low-Cost Hip Fabrication of Advanced Power Cycle Components and PM/Wrought in740h Weld Development |
$1,299,505 |
| Arconic (with Lawrence Livermore National Lab) |
HPC4 Materials |
Computational Modeling of Industrial Rolling Processes Incorporating Microstructure Evolution to Minimize Rework Energy Losses |
$300,000 |
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
FWP-FEAA127 |
Additive Manufacturing of High Gamma Prime Alloys |
$424,000 |
| Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
FWP-66059 |
Solid State Joining of Creep Enhanced Ferritic Steels |
$1,075,000 |
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
FWP-FEAA152 |
Evaluating Ni-Based Alloys for A-USC Component Manufacturing and Use |
$1,615,000 |
| Idaho National Laboratory |
FWP-B100-19010 |
Multi-pass Hybrid Laser Arc Welding of Alloy 740H |
$1,294,000 |
| Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
FWP-60098 |
Low Cost Fabrication of ODS Materials |
$735,000 |
| Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
FWP-71843 |
Integrated Process Improvement using Laser and Friction Stir Processing for Nickel Alloys used in Fossil Energy Power Plant Applications |
$1,120,000 |
| United Technologies Research Center |
FE0031821 |
Optimization of Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) Process to Produce Advanced Ultra-Supercritical Components (AUSC) Components with Increased Service Life |
$1,249,916 |
| Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd. |
SC0018678 |
Silicon Carbide (SIC) Foam for Molten Salt Containment in CSP-GEN3 Systems |
$1,747,540 |
| West Virginia University |
FE0031819 |
Additively Manufactured Graded Composite Transition Joints for Dissimilar Metal Weldments in Utra-Supercritical Power Plant |
$959,865 |
*Links to Project Landing Pages provided, where available
