Materials for Ultra-Supercritical and Advanced Ultra-Supercritical Power Plants

Dr Augusto Di Gianfrancesco is a Materials & Technologies Consultant, Italy. He was based at Centro Sviluppo Materiali (CSM), Rome, Italy 1983 until 2014. He held Senior Metallurgist and Project Leader positions on “High Temperature Materials”. He was responsible for R&D activities on steels and superalloys for high temperature applications in power generation plants. He was also member of Management Committee of EU Program COST 522-536, co-founder of the European Creep Collaborative Committee and co-founder of the Italian Working Group on Creep Resistant Materials. In addition he has been member of the International Board of the 5th, 6th & 7th EPRI International Conferences on Advances in Materials Technology for Fossil Power Plants, METAL2013/4/5, the 6th International Conference on Creep, Fatigue and Creep-Fatigue Interaction, and vice chairman of the 3rd ECCC Conference held 2014 in Rome. He is author and/or co-author of more than 280 technical reports and more than 100 papers presented in national and international conferences or magazines.

1. The fossil fuel power plants technology

Part One. Ultra-supercritical power plant materials 2. Low-alloyed steel grades for boilers in ultra-supercritical power plants 3. High-alloyed martensitic steel grades for boilers in ultra-supercritical power plants 4. Austenitic steel grades for boilers in ultra-supercritical power plants 5. Martensitic steels for cast components in ultra-supercritical power plants 6. Martensitic steels for rotors in ultra-supercritical power plants 7. Steels and alloys for turbine blades in ultra-supercritical power plants 8. Technologies for chemical analyses, microstructural and inspection investigations 9. Welding technologies for ultra-supercritical power plant materials

Part Two. Advanced ultra-supercritical power plant materials 10. New martensitic steels 11. New austenitic steels for the advanced USC power plants 12. Sanicro 25: An advanced high-strength, heat-resistant austenitic stainless steel 13. New Japanese materials for A-USC power plants 14. INCONEL alloy 740H 15. HAYNES 282 alloy 16. Alloy 617 and derivatives 17. Alloy 263 18. Welding technologies for advanced ultra-supercritical power plants materials

Part Three. Materials’ development programs worldwide 19. Worldwide overview and trend for clean and efficient use of coal 20. The US DOE/OCDO A-USC materials technology R&D program 21. The Chinese 700°C A-USC development program 22. Advanced USC technology development in Japan 23. A-USC R&D programs in other countries 24. A-USC programs in the European Union