Effect of impurities on supercritical CO2 compatibility
Impurities may affect structural alloy compatibility in both indirect- and direct-fired supercritical CO2 (sCO2) cycles for high efficiency power generation with peak temperatures above 700°C. Using a new multi-pump gas control system, experiments with controlled impurity additions were compared to baseline results in research- or industrial-grade CO2 at 750°C/300 bar. Low level impurities, 50 ppm O2 and 50 ppm H2O, were not found to affect mass change or reaction products after 2,500 h exposures. However, in RG sCO2+1%O2+0.25%H2O, higher reaction rates were observed for both Ni- and Fe-based alloys, but especially Fe-based alloys were strongly affected by these high impurity levels. Analytical TEM was used to characterize the reaction products on alloy 625.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1570905
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 3rd European Supercritical CO2 Conference (sCO2 2019) - Paris, , France - 9/19/2019 12:00:00 PM-9/20/2019 12:00:00 PM
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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