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ODS Steel made by Additive Manufacturing

Background Hybrid compact heat exchangers are being considered as secondary heat exchangers for supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) power plants. Architecture for efficient heat exchangers require thin sidewalls between the sCO2 channels and other fluid (e.g., molten salt). Generally, a stiff, corrosion‐resistant material capable of high temperature...

Published: 12/23/2021 | Inventor(s): Brian Paul, Somayeh Pasebani, Burak Sencer, Chih-Hung Chang, Goran Jovanovic, Brian Fronk, Kijoon Lee, Milad Ghayoor Baghbani, Yujuan He, Matthew Coblyn, Paul Armatis, William Pratte

Keywords(s): 3D Printing, Additive Manufacturing, Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Inst. (ATAMI), hardened steel, Manufacturing, Materials Science, Metal Alloy, Oxide dispersion

Category(s): Engineering, Materials Science, Physical Science

A High Flux Solar Thermal Receiver

Technology Description The microchannel based solar receiver (MSR) uses a modular arrangement of microchannels in its design that enable the working fluid to be heated in a concentrating solar receiver. The MSR is made of nickel super alloy and designed with the microchannels operating in parallel, which allows a large amount of flux to be removed by...

Published: 9/19/2023 | Inventor(s): Monte Kevin Drost, Vinod Narayanan, Brian Fronk, Sourabh Apte, Thomas L'estrange, Erfan Rasouli, Kyle Zada, Eric Truong, Charles Rymal

Keywords(s): Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Inst. (ATAMI), Modular microchannel arrangement, Solar flux absorption

Category(s): Chemical, Device, Engineering, Materials Science, Nanoscience & Microtechnologies, Physical Science, Sustainability & Cleantechnologies