OCIEE News
EIO Receives Grant to Demonstrate High Temperature Electric Generation
Alloys
The Ohio Coal Development Office (OCDO) has awarded a $330,000 grant to
the Energy Industries of Ohio (EIO) to demonstrate components for power
plants made from new high temperature alloys. This project, part of the
Scope for the Year-3 OCIEE Grant, is needed to address the efficiency of
power plants using high sulfur Ohio coal and to expand the State’s “Baseload
Supply Chain” catalog. The materials and manufacturing processes to be
undertaken in the grant are potential market opportunities for mainstay Ohio
industries. In particular, the program will position Ohio’s metal-casting,
forging and extrusion industries to capitalize on the need to upgrade and
replace older power plants. The grant will cover learning new processing
techniques to address the special characteristics of the new materials such
as their reaction to air when melting. The grant also expands earlier EIO
activities to identify, screen and place firms onto the State of Ohio’s
“Advanced Baseload Energy Suppliers Catalog”.