Author:Gwebu, Excellent ZibhekeleDate:2019Critical components in coal-fired power plants such as final superheater heat exchangers experience severe conditions associated with high metal temperatures and high temperature gradients during base load and transient operations. Such adverse ...Read more
Author:Gwebu, Excellent ZibhekeleDate:2014Coal fired power plants that were built in the past four decades are aging. The main aging mechanisms are creep and thermal fatigue. Creep results from the high temperatures at which the components operate. Thermal fatigue is due to thermal ...Read more