Theory and practice of corrosion related to ashes and deposits in a WtE boiler
Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
| Publié dans: | Waste management (New York, N.Y.). - 1999. - 73(2018) vom: 02. März, Seite 307-312 |
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| Autres auteurs: | , |
| Format: | Article en ligne |
| Langue: | English |
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2018
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| Accès à la collection: | Waste management (New York, N.Y.) |
| Sujets: | Journal Article Ash and deposit composition Chemical and mineralogical analysis Chlorides Corrosion Sulphates WtE |
| Résumé: | Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Corrosion of heat-exchanging components is one of the main operational problems in Waste-to-Energy plants, limiting the electrical efficiency that can be reached. Corrosion is mainly related to the devolatilization and/or formation of chlorides, sulphates and mixtures thereof on the heat-exchanging surfaces. Theoretical considerations on this corrosion were already put forward in literature, but this paper now for the first time combines theory with a large scale sampling campaign of several Waste-to-Energy plants. Based on the outcome of elemental and mineralogical analysis, the distribution of Cl and S in ashes sampled throughout the plant during normal operation is explained. Cl concentrations are high (15-20%) in the first empty pass, decrease in the second and third empty pass, but increase again in the convective part, whereas the S concentrations show an inverse behavior, with the highest concentrations (30%) observed in the second and third empty pass. Sampling of deposits on specific places where corrosion possibly occurred, gives a better insight in the mechanisms related to corrosion phenomena in real-scale WtE plants and provides practical evidence for some phenomena that were only assumed on the basis of theory or lab scale experiments before. More specific, it confirms the role of oxygen content, temperatures in the different stages of the boiler, the presence of polysulphates, Pb and Zb, and the concentrations of HCl and SO2 in the flue gas for different types of boiler corrosion |
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| Description: | Date Completed 13.08.2018 Date Revised 02.12.2018 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 1879-2456 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.wasman.2017.11.031 |