Many of you know that the efforts we put in over the past year and a half with the Morgantown Energy Technology Center have now born fruit. Two of our industry teams will soon be developing high-temperature filters based on their CFCC material. A third industry team also has won a contract but, in this case, not employing a material under development in our program. We have also begun negotiating with Morgantown on development of high-pressure heat exchanger tubes of CFCC.
We have opened discussions with the Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center to provide coupons of CFCC materials to be tested under coal combustion environments.
On October 20, following the CFCC Working Group Meeting, a CFCC industry group visited the Exxon Refinery in Billings, Montana, where we discussed opportunities for CFCC use. It appears we will soon be testing material coupons at this site. In fact, considering the value of this visit, it looks as if we should plan more of the same!
I'm also happy to note that we are beginning to get our educational efforts rolling. We presented a tutorial on design with CFCCs to engineering students and faculty of the Montana State University the day before our Working Group meeting. By the time you read this, we will have participated in the National Educator's Workshop held at NIST. Ken Reifsnider of VPI is examining ways we can have more impact in the educational field. If you are interested, give him a call.
Finally, it looks as if, in addition to our codes and standards efforts with ASTM under Mike Jenkins' leadership, we will soon begin an effort through the ASME. If you are interested in this, call T.V. Narayanan at Foster Wheeler Development Corporation.
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