Category: Fossil Fuel Power

High-temperature nickel superalloy to improve efficiency of coal-fired power plants

The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), in partnership with Energy Industries of Ohio Inc., is set to scale up the fabrication of components made from advanced nickel superalloys that will help bring advanced ultrasupercritical (AUSC) power plant technology to the level of readiness for commercial-scale demonstration.

U.S. Steel to restart pipe mill in Texas and EAF construction in Alabama

United States Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, announces plans to restart the No. 1 Electric-Weld Pipe Mill at Lone Star Tubular Operations in Lone Star, Texas, and also to restart construction on a technologically advanced electric arc furnace steelmaking facility at its Tubular Operations in Fairfield, Ala.

Seco Warwick vacuum heat treating/brazing system includes high-pressure gas quench

Seco Warwick, Meadville, Pa., announces that is has provided a vacuum heat treatment and brazing system equipped with high-pressure gas quench to Grupo TTT for its facility in Bergara, Spain.

Department of Energy to award $38 million for projects to advance coal-fired power plants

The U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, announces up to $38 million in federal funding for cost-shared R&D projects enhancing technologies that improve the overall performance, reliability, and flexibility of the nation’s existing coal-fired power plant fleet.

Stack Metallurgical installs Quintus Mega HIP for heat treating aerospace, medical products

Stack Metallurgical Group, Albany, Ore., announces that it has installed a Quintus Mega-HIP hot isostatic press for heat treating and processing of aerospace, power generation, medical implant, and other products.

Powder coating conveyor oven preheats and coats steel couplings for oil and gas equipment

Wisconsin Oven Corp., East Troy, Wis., has delivered a natural-gas-fired conveyor oven to a supplier of the oil and gas industry for the preheating and powder coating of steel couplings.

Steel Dynamics to invest $1.6 billion in new electric-arc furnace flat roll steel mill

Steel Dynamics Inc., Fort Wayne, Ind., announces that its Board of Directors has authorized the company to construct a new state-of-the-art, electric-arc-furnace (EAF) flat roll steel mill with annual production capacity of approximately 3.0 million tons, including the capability to produce the latest generation of Advanced High Strength Steel products.

Idaho National Lab develops heat treatment to extend life of superalloys in nuclear reactors

Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, announce that they have developed a heat treatment method that enables superalloys to withstand high heat more than six times longer than an untreated counterpart, extending useful life by thousands of hours in applications such as nuclear reactors.

Tenaris invests $7 million to re-activate its steel line pipe and OCTG mill in Texas

Tenaris, Luxembourg, announces that it has re-activated its steel line pipe and OCTG plant in Conroe, Texas, following a three year suspension of operations.

Japanese scientists develop molybdenum-base high-temperature high-strength alloy

Tohoku University, Japan, reports that its researchers have developed a titanium carbide-reinforced, molybdenum-silicon-boron (Mo-Si-B)-based alloy, or MoSiBTiC, whose high-temperature strength was identified under constant forces in the temperature ranges of 2550 to 2900°F.