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Title: Benchmarking boiler tube failures - Part 1

Journal Article · · Power (New York)
OSTI ID:20674671

Boiler tube failures continue to be the leading cause of downtime for steam power plants. That should not be a surprise; a typical steam generator has miles of tubes that operate at high temperatures and pressures. Are your experiences comparable to those of your peers? Could you learn something from tube-leak benchmarking data that could improve the operation of your plant? The Electric Utility Cost Group (EUCG) recently completed a boiler-tube failure study that is available only to its members. But Power magazine has been given exclusive access to some of the results, published in this article. 4 figs.

OSTI ID:
20674671
Journal Information:
Power (New York), Vol. 149, Issue 8; ISSN 0032-5929
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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