• Materials Challenges for the Advanced Ultra-Supercritical Boiler
  Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Future Meetings and Events

• Akron Area Engineers Week Banquet
  Thursday, February 21, 2008
• Akron ASME Student Papers Night
  Thursday, March 13, 2008
• Wind Technology
  Thursday, March 13, 2008
• Address Energy Concerns with Engineering & Chemistry Approaches
  Thursday, March 20, 2008
• Akron ASME Industry Expo
  Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Joint Akron ASME/Akron ASM Meeting

Mr. James Tanzosh
Manager of Materials and Manufacturing Technology
Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc.
Barberton, Ohio

Coal remains the low-cost fuel for the generation of electricity in the US, and is a plentiful natural resource that presently supplies well over 50% of the nation's electricity needs and that reduces dependency on foreign oil and natural gas supply. The need to address global climate change, especially the mitigation of CO2, warrants the development of advanced coal-fired boiler designs that will decrease the amount of greenhouse gases, and ultimately allow for the capture and geologic sequestration of the CO2. Nuclear, wind, solar, and conservation, as well as other options, exist for supply of a portion of the nation's power needs, but coal must realistically remain as a primary source of our power.

A new generation of coal-fired boilers is needed that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and ultimately develop into a source of energy that releases no gases into the environment. This will entail design and construction of boilers that must safely operate at steam temperatures and pressures as high as 1400 F and 5000 psi, which is several hundred degrees and about 20% higher pressure than existing designs. These plants will operate at higher thermal efficiency, which means they will release significantly less CO2 per pound of coal burned. Ultimately, the capture and sequestration of the gases of combustion can lead to an emissions-free energy source.

The biggest challenge facing the boiler designers is selection of materials that can withstand the severe oxidation, corrosion, and elevated temperature stresses that will occur. Extensive research has been and is being conducted, and has resulted in a number of high strength alloys for piping and tubing needed in boiler construction. These alloys, examples of which are Haynes 230, Inconel 617, and a new alloy Inconel 740, are new to the boiler industry, and in all cases had never been manufactured, fabricated, or welded in the thicknesses required of boiler components. B&W has been involved in a five-year materials research program funded by the Department of Energy (DOE) and the State of Ohio, as well as separately-funded research. Work has included extensive material property testing, oxidation and fireside corrosion tests, both in the laboratory and in operating boilers, weldability and general fabricability development, as well as coating development and testing.

This presentation will address the materials being considered and the research being conducted in the US and worldwide, and particularly at Babcock & Wilcox, related to these advanced power plants.

Mail your check or money order to:

ACESS/EWeek
P.O. Box 2993
Akron, OH 44309--2993

Please make checks payable to "Akron Area Engineers Week".

For your added convenience, tickets can now be purchased by any major credit card (MasterCard, Visa, American Express, and Discover), by e-checks, or even bank transfers. All personal information is safe since purchases are made through Paypal; no credit card or bank information is shared with our group. See the Akron E-Week website, www.AkronEweek.org, for details.

To receive the lower price of $25, and have your tickets mailed, your payment must be received no later than Saturday, February 2, 2007. If payment is received after Saturday, February 2, the price is $30 and those tickets will NOT be mailed, but instead held at the door.

No ticket sales at the door

Local website for ticket ordering and further information www.AkronEweek.org

An order form is also available in the January 2008 newsletter (pdf).

Ticket Sales Contact: Tonya Hill at ACESS; 330-535-8835; tickets@akroneweek.org.

Please join us to

• Acknowledge the scholastic accomplishments of our future engineers!
• Salute our local professional engineers and engineering educators!
• Recognize the Order of the Engineer and engineering achievements that impact our communities today!
• Enjoy an evening of fellowship with colleagues, friends and family!
• Celebrate Akron Area Engineering!

Sponsorship

Various opportunities are available. New this year! Platinum Corporate donors can exhibit a table-top display in the banquet hall. To participate or for more details, email coordinator Gary Lanier at glanier@lanierconsult.com.

Scholarship

The scholarship committee is taking nominations for the 2008 awards. Applications can be downloaded from www.AkronEweek.org.

MATHCOUNTS

The Akron Area MATHCOUNTS contest is Saturday, February 2, 2008 at The University of Akron. For more information or to volunteer, please contact Brent Sisler at 330-836-9238 or marybrentsisler@cs.com.

Please join us at our ASME Akron Section March Member Meeting on March 13th, 2008 at the University of Akron Martin Center as we support our student section members in preparation for the ASME Old Guard Competition against the other schools in our region. As in the past, our local University of Akron student section is in the running for the National Championship among ASME Student Sections. This meeting is always a great opportunity for our Senior Section Members to have input as to which students will represent the University of Akron at the ASME Regional Student Conference. The top finishers locally will compete against over 30 Mechanical Engineering Colleges in our region in the Old Guard Student Technical Papers Competition with the winners competing nationally at the ASME Winter annual Meeting (WAM). Our Akron Student Section has represented our area with national recognition for many years and this meeting will help ensure that this tradition will continue.

We expect University of Akron Mechanical Engineering student presentations on the following topics:

• Design, Manufacture & Testing of a Heated Toilet Seat
• Design of a CNC Foam Cutting Tool
• Design of an Air-Powered Industrial Door

In addition, we have invited the Akron Public Schools Project Lead The Way (PLTW) Pre-Engineering students and instructors from Firestone and Garfield High Schools to come, have dinner with us, and bring their project displays. We may or may not have time for them to "present", in addition to "display", depending upon the number and time duration of the University presentations (which necessarily take precedence, since those students will be preparing for ASME regional competition, and we need to give them input).

From Garfield, we might hear "Engineering Problems for the 21st Century". From Firestone, it might be "Pseudomonas Aeruginosa: Potential for Oil Eating Bacteria" (static display only), "Incorporation of Sodium Benzoate into green anti-fouling ship coatings" (static display and possible presentation), "Using sunflowers to reclaim land contaminated with heavy metals" (static display and possible presentation).

Please come enjoy the evening with us!

ASME CAM Section Dinner Meeting-March Program

Creation of electrical energy from Wind has become a significant portion of energy portfolios for man of the electric producers, municipalities, and countries around the world. The development of wind turbines to perform this task as optimally as possble has become the focus of inventors, universities, research centers, and major corporations all around the world. The turbines are taking on colossal proportions, and as they grow larger by the year in mega-watt production, swept area,a nd height, the wind farmers who purchase and use these machines expect them to provide low cost electron production and with high reliaility. Many of the wintage designs have ended with high cost failures early in the life of the turbine, destroying the financial payback; so the race is on to discover the optimum wind turbine design that will make the production of electricty from wind as competitive as possible. This presentation will present some of these latest developments in wind tubine architecture, and will also present some of the latest bearing and power transmission products under development at the Timken Company, aimed at improving the performance and reliability of these mega-machines.

Presented by Dr. Steven Chuang

A Joint meeting of ACESS member societies

The American Chemical Society, Akron Section
Akron Council of Engineering and Scientific Societies

The Akron ASME Industry Expo is our April ASME Meeting organized to highlight our local industry. It is the time for networking, socializing and fun.

This meeting brings together our sponsors, local industry representatives, our Akron Section ASME members, ASME members of other sections, members of other technical societies, and technical students from local colleges.

Industry representatives will showcase their products and capabilities in an informal trade show type environment to the approximately 120 engineers and students from our area. This is a great way to make contacts, and you may solve your technical challenges. Engineering, Manufacturing, and Support companies will be present.

The Akron Section will introduce the incoming board members who will serve you during the 2008-2009 year. Meet the people who work to provide the services of the section. Talk to the board members about how the Akron Section may serve you. Suggest a meeting topic you may want to here about, a company the membership may tour, or a lecture you or your company may desire. Be sure to give at least one board member your E-mail address to be assured you remain well informed. The Akron Section is here to support you.

Catch-up with members you haven't seen for a while. Our April meeting bringing industry, members and students together is a proven success. This is always one of our most heavily attended meetings. Enjoy a dinner provided by the section with cooperation of Industry.

The Akron Section thanks all the companies who are supporting our section now and throughout the past.