Failure Analysis of Waterwall Tubes in Super Critical Boiler

초임계압 보일러 수냉벽 튜브의 파열사고 분석

  • 김범수 (한국전력연구원 발전연구실) ;
  • 정남근 (한국전력연구원 발전연구실) ;
  • 김두수 (한국전력연구원 발전연구실) ;
  • 이성호 (한국전력연구원 발전연구실)
  • Published : 2003.02.28

Abstract

Boiler is one of the most important utilities providing steam to turbine in order to supply mechanical energy in thermal power plant. It is composed of thousands of tubes for high efficient heat transfer. Water is converted to steam inside the waterwall tubes. Many chemical components dissolved in boiler water come out of itself, deposit to the tube wall surface, prohibit heat transer, raise tube metal temperature, eventually fail the boiler tubes. Several tasks such as fracture surface study, tensile test, hardness test, metallurgical test, composition analysis of sticking elements were conducted to identify the root cause of tube failure.

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