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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
engineering
A model to predict erosion on mild steel surfaces impacted by boiler fly ash particles
Wear, Volume 257, No. 5-6, Year 2004
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Fly ash particles entrained in the flue gas from boiler furnaces in coal-fired power stations can cause serious erosive wear on steel surfaces along the flow path. Such erosion can, as a particular example, reduce significantly the operational life of the mild steel heat transfer plates that are used in rotary regenerative heat exchangers ('air heaters') that extract heat from the flue gas and transfer it to the incoming boiler combustion air. This paper describes research into fly ash impingement erosion on such surfaces. The effect of the ash particle impact velocity and impact angle on the erosive wear of mild steel surfaces, using three different power station ash types, was determined through experimental investigations. The experimental data were used to calibrate a fundamentally-derived model for the prediction of erosion rates. The model incorporates the properties of the ash particles and the target metal surface, as well as the characteristics of the ash particle motion in the form of the impingement velocity and the impingement angle. When tested using the three different types of ash, the experimentally-calibrated general model yielded results that generally differed by less than 15% from the values that had been measured experimentally. © 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Authors & Co-Authors
Mbabazi, John G.
South Africa, Johannesburg
University of the Witwatersrand
Sheer, Thomas John
South Africa, Johannesburg
University of the Witwatersrand
Shandu, R.
South Africa, Johannesburg
University of the Witwatersrand
Statistics
Citations: 72
Authors: 3
Affiliations: 1
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/j.wear.2004.03.007
ISSN:
00431648
Research Areas
Environmental