Don't let those boiler tubes fail again: Part 2: How to identify common economizer inlet header failure mechanisms

Power Engineering (Barrington, Illinois)

Volumn 101, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 31-40

  Dooley, Barry ^a,c,d   McNaughton, Warren P ^b,e  

^a ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Cornice Engineering Inc ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d MOSCOW POWER ENGINEERING INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOILER CORROSION; CRACK INITIATION; CREEP; EROSION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; INTAKE SYSTEMS; THERMAL EFFECTS; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

BOILER TUBE FAILURES;

BOILERS;

EID: 0031211735     PISSN: 00325961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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6. Dooley, R.B., "A Vision for Reducing Boiler Tube Failures: Part II", Power Engineering, May 1992, pp. 41-42.