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Fireside Corrosion of Superheater Materials in Coal/Biomass Co-fired Advanced Power Plants

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A series of laboratory-based fireside corrosion exposures were conducted to assess the effect of such conditions on superheater/reheater materials at higher than conventional metal temperatures. Controlled atmosphere furnaces combined with the “deposit recoat” test method were used to generate the exposure conditions; the gaseous environment simulated that anticipated from air-firing 20 wt% cereal co-product mixed with a UK coal. The exposures were carried out at 600, 650 and 700 °C with four candidate materials: T92, HR3C and 347HFG steels; nickel-based alloy 625. After the exposures, the samples were examined by SEM/EDX to characterize the damage. Pre- and post-exposure dimensional metrology were used to quantify the metal damage in terms of metal loss distributions. For the austenitic steels, the combined deposit/gas/temperature exposure conditions enabled quantification of the characteristic ‘bell-shaped’ curves (of damage as a function of temperature) for fireside corrosion.

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Acknowledgments

The authors acknowledge the support of The Energy Programme, which is a Research Councils UK cross council initiative led by EPSRC and contributed to by ESRC, NERC, BBSRC and STFC, and specifically the Supergen initiative (Grants GR/S86334/01 and EP/F029748) and the following companies; Alstom Power Ltd., Doosan Babcock, E.ON, National Physical Laboratory, Praxair Surface Technologies Ltd, QinetiQ, Rolls-Royce plc, RWE npower, Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery Ltd. and Tata Steel, for their valuable contributions to the project.

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Hussain, T., Syed, A.U. & Simms, N.J. Fireside Corrosion of Superheater Materials in Coal/Biomass Co-fired Advanced Power Plants. Oxid Met 80, 529–540 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11085-013-9394-y

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