Materials for Advanced Power Engineering 2014

The 10th Liege Conference on Materials for Advanced Power Engineering presents theachievements of international materials related research for high eciency, low-emissionpower plants. Furthermore the new demands of the transition of electricity supply towardsmore and more regenerative power sources are reported.Resource preservation and maximization of economic success by improved plant e-ciency were the driving forces in past materials and power plant technology development.Fossil fuels will still play a considerable role for future energy security, even if renewablesgain rising importance. The integration of uctuating renewable energy technologies posesgreat future challenges in terms of load exibility, thermal cycling capability and downtimecorrosion resistance for the materials employed in new concentrated solar power, biomassred or gas to liquid plants and the backing conventional fossil red power plants. Inorder to balance erroneous availability forecasts of uctuating regenerative power sources(wind, solar) and vice versa to bridge short periods of low conventional power demand,the minimum load capability of conventional power plants will have to be decreased, whileon the other hand start-up times and load ramps will have to be increased to ensure gridstability. Above all improved eciency of plant, implying rising process temperaturesand pressures remains of the utmost importance to ensure economic prosperity. All theseissues will create even stronger demands for future materials research and development.The series of Liège Conferences on Materials for Advanced Power Engineering reectsthe necessity of joint international material research and component development for criticalcomponents of power generation equipment by bringing together material scientists,design engineers, alloy producers and component manufacturers. To put European effortsinto an international framework there are several invited research and review paperscovering materials, component and process development in the USA and Asia. In additionthere are more than 75 contributed papers from 22 countries which are presented asposters at the conference