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title: New Alloys for Extreme Power Plants
description: Computational materials modelling is shortening the time needed to design new alloys for the fossil energy plants of the future. Ultra-supercritical steam plants and oxyfuel combustion boilers will use much less fuel than current models, and thus be much more efficient. However, their higher temperatures and pressures will create corrosive conditions that current alloys can’t handle.
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# [New Alloys for Extreme Power Plants](https://northerncal.swagelok.com/blog/new-alloys-for-extreme-power-plants)

 Written by [Jeff Hopkins](https://northerncal.swagelok.com/blog/author/jeff-hopkins) | 10/18/18 3:45 PM

Computational materials modelling is shortening the time needed to **design new alloys for the fossil energy plants of the future**. Ultra-supercritical steam plants and oxyfuel combustion boilers will use much less fuel than current models, and thus be much more efficient. However, their higher temperatures and pressures will create corrosive conditions that current alloys can’t handle.

[Read the full article on World Coal  →](https://www.worldcoal.com/power/14052018/advanced-fossil-energy-technologies-can-increase-efficiency-and-boost-clean-coal-efforts/)

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