Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Contemporary Risk Studies, ICONIC-RS 2022, 31 March-1 April 2022, South Jakarta, DKI Jakarta, Indonesia

Research Article

Estimation of Steam-Side Scale Growth in Ferritic Alloy Boiler Tubes of Coal-Fired Power Plant

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.31-3-2022.2320949,
        author={Muhammad Akbar Barrinaya and Wei Hong Yeo and Singh  Ramesh and Sri  Hastuty and Purwo  Kadarno and Sylvia Ayu Pradanawati and Yose Fachmi Buys and Judha  Purbolaksono},
        title={Estimation of Steam-Side Scale Growth in Ferritic Alloy Boiler Tubes of Coal-Fired Power Plant},
        proceedings={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Contemporary Risk Studies, ICONIC-RS 2022, 31 March-1 April 2022, South Jakarta, DKI Jakarta, Indonesia},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={ICONIC-RS},
        year={2022},
        month={8},
        keywords={coal steam power plant ferritic alloy boiler tubes oxide scale growth},
        doi={10.4108/eai.31-3-2022.2320949}
    }
    
  • Muhammad Akbar Barrinaya
    Wei Hong Yeo
    Singh Ramesh
    Sri Hastuty
    Purwo Kadarno
    Sylvia Ayu Pradanawati
    Yose Fachmi Buys
    Judha Purbolaksono
    Year: 2022
    Estimation of Steam-Side Scale Growth in Ferritic Alloy Boiler Tubes of Coal-Fired Power Plant
    ICONIC-RS
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.31-3-2022.2320949
Muhammad Akbar Barrinaya1, Wei Hong Yeo2, Singh Ramesh3, Sri Hastuty1, Purwo Kadarno1, Sylvia Ayu Pradanawati1, Yose Fachmi Buys1, Judha Purbolaksono1,*
  • 1: Universitas Pertamina
  • 2: Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
  • 3: University of Malaya
*Contact email: yudha.purbolaksono@universitaspertamina.ac.id

Abstract

Coal remains to be considered as one of the future major energy sources. However, the formation of steam-side oxide scale as a result of the oxidation process during the steam power plant operation has been widely known to be a serious main root cause, leading to some risks/consequences. This paper presents a simple incremental method to determine the oxide scale growth in the ferritic alloy boiler (reheater and superheater) tubes for a given period of time making use of a classical heat flow formula and the correlation of the oxide scale thickness versus the Larson Miller Parameter (LMP). The ferritic alloy tubes have been used worldwide, especially in the supercritical steam power plants. The presented method may be used as a supplementary monitoring tool for estimating the growth of steam-side oxide scales in boiler tubes.