Analysis of the Causes of the Emergency Shutdown of Natural Gas-Fired Water Peak Boilers at the Large Municipal Combined Heat and Power Plant

The paper presents a cause-and-effect analysis of the failure of a 130 MWt gas-fired water boiler. The fault was a rupture of the helically finned tubes in the first rows of the second-stage water heater (ECO2). The high frequency of failures forced the boiler user to investigate their causes. The r...

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Main Authors: Marcin Trojan, Piotr Dzierwa, Jan Taler, Mariusz Granda, Karol Kaczmarski, Dawid Taler, Tomasz Sobota
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-08-01
Series:Energies
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/17/6278