Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Materials for Advanced Power Engineering 2014

The 10th Liege Conference on Materials for Advanced Power Engineering presents the
achievements of international materials related research for high e ciency, low-emission
power plants. Furthermore the new demands of the transition of electricity supply towards
more 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 renewables
gain rising importance. The integration of uctuating renewable energy technologies poses
great future challenges in terms of load exibility, thermal cycling capability and downtime
corrosion resistance for the materials employed in new concentrated solar power, biomass
red or gas to liquid plants and the backing conventional fossil red power plants. In
order 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, while
on the other hand start-up times and load ramps will have to be increased to ensure grid
stability. Above all improved e ciency of plant, implying rising process temperatures
and pressures remains of the utmost importance to ensure economic prosperity. All these
issues will create even stronger demands for future materials research and development.
The series of Liège Conferences on Materials for Advanced Power Engineering re ects
the necessity of joint international material research and component development for critical
components of power generation equipment by bringing together material scientists,
design engineers, alloy producers and component manufacturers. To put European efforts
into an international framework there are several invited research and review papers
covering materials, component and process development in the USA and Asia. In addition
there are more than 75 contributed papers from 22 countries which are presented as
posters at the conference.