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Professors Jerzy Sobczak and Dean
Rafal Danko from Poland’s AGH
University, Faculty of Foundry
Engineering along with EIO's President
Bob Purgert and Government Affairs
Manager Chris Sinagra visit
Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur's office in
Cleveland Ohio in June 2019.
Congresswoman Kaptur provided a letter
of support for a collaborative effort
between Poland’s AGH University and The
Energy Industries of Ohio for developing
new casting processes for super alloys.
During May 2019 Bob Purgert,
President of EIO, visited Poland’s
Center of Energy located at AGH
University in Krakow, Poland.
Discussions regarding the Advanced
UltraSuperCritical program and its
potential applications for Poland were
undertaken culminating in plans to hold
a joint U.S./Poland workshop of key
government and utility officials.
Pictured above are Professor Jerzy
Sobczak and Bob Purgert along with the
Centre of Energy’s Director, Professor
Wojciech Nowak and Dr. Sanislaw
Tokarski, Management Director.
U.S.
Department of Energy Awards EIO $16M
Phase II follow-on project.
U.S. Department of Energy Awards
EIO $16M Phase II follow-on project.
EIO as the prime contractor with the
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
is now undertaking the Phase II portion
of the U.S. Advance UltraSuperCritical
program's component test program. This
Phase will construct full scale
assemblies, castings, forging and
valves that will be used in next
generation a-dvanced power generation
systems. Though primarily to be used in
high temperature and high pressure
applications, these components will
demonstrate the fabricability of the
materials developed during earlier
phases to put the U.S. at the forefront
of other national programs for High
Efficiency Low Emission (HELE)
technologies. The goal is to use these
materials for more efficient energy
production and to aid with energy
independence.
Besides offering advantages for
transitioning U.S. coal based systems
for reducing CO2 emissions these
materials offer benefits for use in
solar, nuclear and other power
generation scenarios. As a spin off
benefit, a domestic supply chain
leading the world for making components
from these advanced materials will be
established to include a number of Ohio
firms being qualified for future
applications with both domestic and
export opportunities.
This phase of the AUSC program is
estimated to be finished by late 2021 as
all precompetitive efforts will have
been completed. It will end a twenty
year, $100million development project
led by Energy Industries of Ohio that
included participation by all US boiler
and turbine manufacturers, key utility
companies, the Electric Power Research
Institute, and a number of suppliers who
co funded the effort along with the Ohio
Coal Development Office and the U.S.
Department of Energy. This program's
coordinated and shared research has
enabled the project's partners to
develop cutting edge technology and vast
intellectual property that looks to
benefit the United States. "
$70 MILLION 15 YEAR ADVANCED
MATERIALS PROGRAM COMPLETED
The high temperature/high pressure
advanced materials development program
conducted by an industrial
consortium led by the Energy Industries
of Ohio has published its final report
completing this $70 Million, 15 year
effort. This effort, where EIO was
the prime contractor and the Electric
Power Research Institute (EPRI) acted as
the technical lead organization,
identified and qualified a number of
materials capable of operating under
extreme conditions. These
conditions are needed for future power
generation systems that include nuclear,
solar concentrators and fossil plants
that will operate with considerably
lower emissions. The project was
funded by the Ohio Coal Development
Office, the U.S. Department of Energy
with cost share from EPRI, Babcock &
Wilcox, Alstom Power, Foster Wheeler,
Babcock Power, General Electric and
Siemens Westinghouse. These
reports are available on the Department
of Energy's website Office of Scientific
and Technical Information
http://www.osti.gov/home/.
ENERGY INDUSTRIES OF OHIO AWARDED $75 MILLION
ENERGY DEMONSTRATION GRANT
TThe U.S. Department of Energy along with
the State of Ohio's Coal Development
Office and a consortium made up of
Babcock & Wilcox, General Electric and
Alstom Power will cost share in a
$75 Million effort under a prime contract
to the Energy Industries of Ohio, who,
along with the Electric Power Research
Institute (EPRI) will manage the
project. The project is for full scale
component testing needed prior to
commercialization.
Since 2001 a U.S. public/private Advanced
Ultrasupercritical (AUSC) Materials
consortium has been led by EIO to find
means to operate fossil fueled power
plants at higher temperatures to reduce
emissions. The AUSC technology is
now ready to be demonstrated under this
full scale Component Test (ComTest) planned for Ohio. The
project team under EIO's leadership has
been able to locate a suitable site at
the former Ohio Edison plant which is
now the Youngstown Thermal District
heating plant. Additional
infrastructure will be constructed to
accommodate the test and EIO plans to
install the first AUSC turbine on site. "This is very positive news not only for
moving the technology forward but for
sub-tier opportunities for Ohio's
manufacturing industries as well"
according to Bob Purgert, EIO President.
He continued "The need for castings from
Ohio's foundries, forgings and
fabrication of products along with job
training for skills needed to weld and
install the equipment will directly
benefit Ohio workers. The timeliness of
the test could not be more critical in
view of the proposed Clean Power Plan."
Prototype
Advanced UltraSuperCritical Component
Test Turbine
In addition to the prototype AUSC steam
turbine, Energy Industries of Ohio will
also test components that deliver steam
to the turbine including a superheater,
boiler tube membrane wall,
desuperheater, steam headers, and main
steam piping.
EIO Submits
the Final Technical Report for a
$500,000 Advanced Manufacturing Project
Pictured left to right are: Lou
Lherbier & David Novotnak, Carpenter
Technology Corp.; Nancy Horton EIO
Project Manager; Mike Orange and Hilary
Gilmore ExOne Co. & Roy Sheppard EIO
Technical Specialist.
On January 1, 2016 EIO submitted the
Final Technical Report for a $500,000
Advanced Manufacturing project sponsored
by the U.S. Department of Energy's
National Energy Technology Laboratory.
Working with industry, EIO tailored two
material processing technologies, Hot
Isostatic Pressing of Powdered Metal,
(HIP/PM) and Additive Manufacturing
(AM), (also known as 3D Printing) to
create a credible, safe and cost
effective approach to large scale
manufacture of quality structural
advanced material components. For
expensive high nickel alloy components,
EIO’s R&D activities have shown numerous
advantages of using HIP/PM over other
methods such as casting and forging.
A
serious drawback of HIP/PM has been the
canisters required to produce the parts.
The cans (or outside skins of the powder
metallurgy container) are currently
formed by bending and welding low carbon
steel sheet metal, constraining the
complexity and shape. Under this
program, EIO successfully demonstrated
that 3D Printing could be used to
fabricate the canisters, saving time and money and enabling larger, more complex parts to be mass produced. The project
went one step further and creatively
proved that these cans could be made
from the same material as the final
part, thus eliminating post processing.
As a final achievement, the project showed that combining HIP/PM with AM
created as robust a part as one produced
by AM alone, thus offering a cost
effective alternative to the more
expensive 3DP. EIO's Report is posted
on the DOE website
https://www.osti.gov/.
BOYD CERITFIED AS AN SEP
PERFORMANCE VERIFIER
Larry
Boyd, Director of Industrial Technology
Programs for Energy Industries of Ohio,
has been certified as a Superior Energy
Performance, Performance Verifier for
the Industrial Sector. As of this
writing, he is one of only 15
individuals in the nation that have
secured this certification.
Superior Energy Performancecm
is a certification program that provides
industrial facilities with a
transparent, globally accepted system
for verifying energy performance
improvements and management practices.
Superior Energy Performance enables
facilities to achieve continual
improvements in energy efficiency while
boosting competitiveness. A central
element of Superior Energy Performance
is implementation of the global energy
management standard,
ISO 50001, with additional
requirements to achieve and document
energy performance improvements.
Performance Verifiers play a critical
role in the certification audit for the
Superior Energy Performance Program
(SEP). They are responsible for
evaluating the baseline data, reporting
year data and calculations that form the
basis of a company's claims of energy
improvements in their SEP application
and for certifying the achievement level
that the company has attained.
Boyd's certification by the Institute of
Energy Management Professionals is good
for 3 years.
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