Improving Economics of Gen3 Concentrating Solar-Thermal Power System Components through Fabrication and Application of High-Temperature Nickel-Based Alloys

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In order to reduce high-temperature concentrating solar thermal power plant costs, this team will investigate manufacturing methods for alloys that had previously been designed for high-temperature power service in advanced ultra-supercritical steam. They will examine the cost and performance advantages of manufacturing pipes and tubes from flat sheets after further processing, which can lower capital costs. If these alternate manufacturing routes of alloys can produce pipes that are able to maintain operating lifetimes similar to piping produced from other nickel-based alloys, they have the potential to reduce the cost of these components by about thirty percent.