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| Book | PreJuSER-52855 |
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2006
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Zentralbibliothek, Verlag
Jülich
ISBN: 3-89336-436-6
Please use a persistent id in citations: http://hdl.handle.net/2128/2554
Abstract: The European Co-operation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research (COST) is a well-established organisation for the co-ordination of national research and development programmes on the European level. The series of Liège conferences began in 1978 with the aim of disseminating the results of the COST Action 50 in which materials for gas turbines were investigated. Since then, a Liège Conference has been held every four years and the results of COST Actions 501 and 522, which were concerned with materials for power generation plant, reported. At this, the Eighth Liège Conference, the materials research and development work being carried out in the current COST Actions 536 ‘Alloy Development for Critical Components of Environmentally Friendly Steam Power Plant’ with the acronym ACCEPT and 538 ‘High Temperature Plant Lifetime Extension’ will be reported. Reliable energy supply at reasonable cost is one of the most important factors in the development and maintenance of the modern industrial society, but there are increasing concerns about the environmental impact of energy production as well as about the need to conserve valuable energy resources for future generations. New and emerging energy technologies are of great interest, but fossil fuels will continue to make a considerable contribution to energy requirements into the foreseeable future. The emphasis in this field is therefore on the most efficient use of fossil fuels, which can be achieved by increasing the thermal efficiency of the energy conversion process. For steam power plant and gas turbines, this means raising the temperature and pressure of the process. This in turn requires the application of improved materials that are able to withstand the increasingly arduous service conditions. In the COST Actions, the materials research and development activities that are necessary for the critical components of advanced, highly efficient power generation plant have been based on the principle of work-sharing, bringing together materials scientists and engineers, plant designers, alloy producers, component manufacturers, plant constructors and plant operators. This constellation of expertise reflects the need to match materials properties to component behaviour. In order to put the European efforts into a world-wide scenario, there are in this conference a number of invited papers that will discuss the energy perspectives and the development of power plant materials in the USA, Japan, India and China. The Conference Proceedings are organised as follows: [...]
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