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How The Oxide Layer Deposit Is Formed In Various Heat

Transfer Regions?
by ircengg on June 4, 2015

Oxide of high porosity (>50%) is found to deposit in drum as well as once-through boilers
under both low and high oxygen water chemistry conditions. The deposition rate is
approx. proportional to the concentration of particulate iron oxide and the square of the
heat flux. The best approximation to the real situation is given by

D = k q2 c t

Where,
D = amount of magnetite deposited (kg/m2)
q = the heat flux (W/m2)
c = concentration of iron in water (kg/m3)
t = time (hour)
k = constant ( approx. 5 X 10-13 / W2 m2/s

In a wick boiling mechanism, salts dissolved in the boiler water can be concentrated by
factors > 104 as shown in the figure below.
Generally, the protective magnetite scale thickness is 10-15 microns in the waterwall tube.
When the corrosion rate increases due to upset of water chemistry parameters in boiler,
(due to salt ingress and concentration), the deposit formation also increases due to
corrosion of metal and precipitation of contaminants whose water solubility decreases at
higher temperature on the evaporator tube surface. To maintain the pH in boiler water,
in case of reduction of pH due to salt ingress, addition of more Tri Sodium Phosphate
(TSP) is required. In this process, at some places on the internal surface of waterwall
tubes, deposit thickness increases and the protective iron oxide scale becomes non
protective and porous in nature. Porous, insulating types of deposits allow boiler water to
diffuse into the deposit where the water becomes trapped and boils.

The boiling of deposit in entrapped water produces relatively pure steam which tends to
diffuse out of the deposit, leaving behind super heated non-boiling equilibrium solution
of caustic, which is responsible for caustic corrosion or acidic solution, which is
responsible of hydrogen damage in waterwall tubes as discussed below.

IRC is regularly carrying out such studies to find out the reason of the failures and are also
giving remedial actions to prevent it, if required we can also carry out chemical cleaning of
boiler.
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