United Technologies Research Center will design, fabricate, and test high-pressure turbine vanes that use a novel combination of monolithic ceramics and ceramic matrix composites to increase component efficiencies within the turbine hot section and provide key building blocks for a 65 percent efficient system. The design will use an environmental barrier coating (EBC) to provide long term resistance to residues that make it past syngas filtration systems. By using low cooled ceramics to replace highly cooled superalloy vanes, a fraction of core flow typically utilized for cooling will be retained. The retained cooling air will then be used to increase efficiency by increasing temperatures that reach high-pressure turbine blades and increase turbine exhaust temperatures. This will further drive steam bottoming cycle efficiencies in combined cycle systems, regardless of fuel type.