Structural alloys for power plants : operational challenges and high-temperature materials
Current fleets of conventional and nuclear power plants face increasing hostile environmental conditions due to increasingly high temperature operation for improved capacity and efficiency, and the need for long term service. Additional challenges are presented by the requirement to cycle plants to...
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
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Oxford :
Woodhead Publishing,
2014.
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| Series | Woodhead Publishing in energy ;
no. 45. |
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| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 0857097555 9780857097552 008101323X 9780081013236 0857092383 9780857092380 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Structural Alloys for Power Plants: Operational Challenges and High-temperature Materials; Copyright; Contents; Contributor contact details; Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy; Preface; Part I: Operational challenges and structural alloy requirements; 1 Gas turbines: operating conditions, components and material requirements; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Overview of materials systems and their role in gas turbines; 1.3 Operating conditions and materials selection; 1.4 Critical degradation mechanisms, aging and monitoring; 1.5 Materials performance assessment and life management.
- 1.6 Materials limitations, challenges and future directions1.7 Acknowledgements; 1.8 Sources of further information and advice; 1.9 References; 2 Steam turbines: operating conditions, components and material requirements; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 High temperature cylinder components; 2.3 Factors affecting the service life of high temperature components; 2.4 Low temperature cylinder components; 2.5 Factors affecting the service life of low temperature components; 2.6 Conclusion; 2.7 References; 3 High temperature materials issues in the design and operation of coal-fired steam turbines and plant.
- 3.1 Introduction3.2 Recent power plant history and its lessons; 3.3 Challenges of advanced plants; 3.4 Thermodynamics and design of the steam and water circuits; 3.5 Design and operation of furnace and boiler; 3.6 Superheater design issues; 3.7 Two shift cycling; 3.8 Material issues in the development of advanced steam plants; 3.9 Discussion; 3.10 Conclusions; 3.11 References; 4 Nuclear power plants: types, components and material requirements; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 UK gas-cooled reactors: Magnox and advanced gas-cooled reactors (AGR); 4.3 The pressurised water reactor (PWR).
- 4.4 'Generation IV' systems: the fusion reactor4.5 Conclusion; 4.6 References; Part II: Structural alloys and their development; 5 Austenitic steels and alloys for power plants; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The Fe-C phase diagram and austenitic steels; 5.3 Microstructure and properties of austenitic steels; 5.4 Other problems with the use of austenitics; 5.5 Modern Japanese alloys; 5.6 Discussion and future work; 5.7 Sources of further information and advice; 5.8 References; 6 Bainitic steels and alloys for power plants; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Transformations in steels.
- 6.3 Tempering heat treatment and service6.4 Desirable properties for high temperature components used in power plants; 6.5 Developments of bainitic power plant steels; 6.6 Conclusion; 6.7 References; 7 Ferritic and martensitic steels for power plants; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Metallurgical background; 7.3 Power plant ferritic, bainitic and martensitic steels; 7.4 Steam oxidation; 7.5 Production and fabrication of power plant components; 7.6 Power plant experience with most recently developed steels; 7.7 Further development of power plant steels; 7.8 Sources of further information and advice.