Finding the Root Cause of Boiler Tube Failures
Symptoms: Aggressive localized boiler tube corrosion and loss of tube wall.Pits can act as stress-concentration sites which can be initiation points for stress-related corrosion mechanisms. Causes: Oxygen pitting occurs with the presence of excessive oxygen in boiler water.It can occur during operation as a result of in-leakage of air at pumps, or failure in operation of preboiler water ...
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