Investigating Fireside Corrosion Behavior and Mechanism of Low-Alloy Water Wall Tube of Ultra-Supercritical Power Plant
Yifan Ni, Weijie Weng, Zuogui Zhang, Jianning Li, Chenghao Fan
TL;DR
This study examines how low-alloy water wall tubes in ultra-supercritical power plants corrode and identifies the mechanisms behind the thinning of these tubes.
Contribution
The paper introduces a detailed corrosion mechanism involving chemical transport, sensitization, and kinetic growth in power plant tubes.
Findings
Fireside corrosion starts with chemical transport and is accelerated by kinetic growth.
Laboratory experiments showed reduced atmosphere corrosion follows a linear law with different scale structures.
Atmospheric shifts during boiler operation may cause delaminated oxidation layers.
Abstract
The corrosion thinning behavior and mechanism of low-alloy water wall tubes of an ultra-supercritical power plant was investigated via SEM, EPMA, XRD, TEM, and laboratory simulation experiments. Fireside corrosion was first initiated by chemical potential- and concentration-governed transportation and diffusion, sequentially facilitated by sensitization, which was observed by TEM in terms of the carbide matrix precipitation on the grain boundary, and finally accelerated by the kinetic controlled growth, leading to the final thinning behavior. Laboratory experiments revealed that the reduced atmosphere corrosion kinetic simulation followed the linear law, as well as a different corrosion scale structure layer, compared to the furnace corrosion sample; the reduced atmosphere condition in the laboratory experiment inhibited the oxidation process and layer growth. The frequent shift between…
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Taxonomy
TopicsPetroleum Processing and Analysis · High-Temperature Coating Behaviors · Corrosion Behavior and Inhibition