Report on the completion of the procurement of the first heat of Alloy 709
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
This report provides details on the completion of the procurement of the first commercial-sized heat of Alloy 709. The report is a Level 3 deliverable in FY17 (M3AT- 17OR1602053), under the Work Package AT-17OR160205, “Advanced Alloy Development” performed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as part of Advanced Structural Materials Program for the Advanced Reactor Technologies (ART). This work project supports the fabrication scale up effort for Alloy 709 that was started in FY16. The effort culminated in the placement of a Purchase Order in August 2016 with a commercial vendor to melt an Alloy 709 heat using industrial melt practice. Four ingots, totaling about 45,000 lb, had been bottom-poured from the melt in September 2016. Two of the ingots were hot rolled into 1.2”x60”x155” and 1.1”x60”x100” plates using standard hot rolling process in FY17. Some small test pieces were cut from the asrolled plates and sent to Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) for archival. The plates were then heat treated and surface pickled by the vendor. The plates were subsequently delivered to ANL and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Properties and microstructure screening were performed on these plates upon delivery in February 2017 at ANL. Several samples were cut from the as-rolled and heattreated plates and were analyzed for their microstructures, hardness values, grain sizes, and room temperature tensile properties. The results indicate that the scaled-up heat of Alloy 709 fabricated using commercial practice exhibit tensile properties that exceed the minimum values specified in the ASME Code Case for commercial heat of NF709. These plates will be used to support base metal testing for the 650°C, 100,000-h Alloy 709 Code Case development, for fabrication of weldments, and for the NEUP projects.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE), Nuclear Infrastructure Programs. Nuclear Facility Operations
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- OSTI ID:
- 1364649
- Report Number(s):
- ANL-ART-89; 136100
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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