Boiler tube failure: Correction, prevention, and control: Final report

Technical Report · Sat Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1989

OSTI ID:5865531

Dimmer, J P

The Manual is for guidance in implementing formalized boiler tube failure (BTF) reduction programs, and for training of power plant management, engineering, operation and maintenance personnel in the ''controllable'' aspects of BTF correction, prevention and control. It is primarily programmatic in content and firmly based on the philosophical concepts and technical information presented in EPRI Reports: CS-3945, ''Investigation and Correction of Boiler Tube Failures'', CS-4629, ''Interim Consensus Guidelines on Fossil Plant Cycle Chemistry'', and CS-5164, ''Guideline Manual on Instrumentation and Control for Fossil Plant Cycle Chemistry''. The Manual, including a generic corporate philosophy statement, was developed and used in the training of personnel from sixteen utilities participating in EPRI's Project RP1890-7, ''Boiler Tube Failure Reduction Program''. The development of specific program statements by each utility, prior to training, was demonstrated to be essential for company-wide program direction, and acceptance by plant personnel. The Manual includes five stand-alone training modules. Module 1 describes six essential programmatic requirements for implementing a formalized BTF Reduction Program. Four additional function-specific modules are presented; one each for management, engineering, operation and maintenance personnel.

• Research Organization: Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (USA); General Physics Corp., San Diego, CA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5865531
• Report Number(s): EPRI-GS-6467
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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20 FOSSIL-FUELED POWER PLANTS
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MAINTENANCE
POWER PLANTS
PROGRESS REPORT
STEAM
THERMAL POWER PLANTS
TUBES
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