9.047 ‘Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Engineering Failure Analysis ELSEVIER journal homepage: www.clse\ ‘com/locate/engfailanal Failure evaluation of SA 210C riffle water wall tubes in 70 MW ® CFBC boiler (sea S, Senthur Prabu’, Ayush Choudhary, Nipun Mittal, Sahil Gupta, Devendranath Ramkumar, Arivazhagan Natarajan Scat of Mecha Bxgeing IT Urvriy, Vere 682014 Ina ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Keywords Bole tubes used as water walls made up offerte steals i having some ite le, beause of sazioe prolonged exporue inthe furnace a elevated temperature, ster snd aggressive enviroment, fue faite aking place. Nowa day’ prematereailireof the bole tobe many in water wallet ‘ne ofthe very common phenomena inthe thermal powerplants. The present investigation Was one on the aereceived ASTM SA 210C falled boiler tube see] used as water walls inthe CGreulating Fluiized Bed Combustion (CHBC) cal fred thermal power plant. An atten hab been made ounderstand the ents, breaate ening correct alee mechanism afte helps to ecform meaningful life assessment an ast prevent te fare Boller Tube Fale (TF). The ‘sreceived of elle tube along withthe parent (unused tube fom the water wall taser panel iwere selected to study for mechanisl and metallurgical properties. Tensile test and micro ardness examinations were eacie eu 0h bath the parent tbe and filed tube. Visual eX amination reveals “fish-mouth” appearance ofthe as-received fled tube Because of short-term ‘overheating, The miero structure ofthe erent metal has the conventional structize of fecie (hice consent) and perlite (€ate constituent), whereas fr the as- eclved fall tube re euls Widmansatenferre. Adele srelure - property relationship has been ade by using "he combined teeighes af Optieal Miezosepy (OND, SEM/EDAX ana XRD. Tensile seioraphy ‘epics the presence of mico-oide coalescence in the Sbsoks network shows dice rede flue in he weeceied failed boiler tbe, 1. Introduction 'SA.210C ferric stels are extensively used in steam generator circuits of thermal powerplants, cogeneration power plants and ‘waste heat recovery boilers as heat exchangers operated a temperature around 300-400" fitted as water walls inthe furnace. The pre-fallure of the boiler tubes occurred frequently made the interest for most of researchers in the past few decades, Mainly because of, the corrosion and erosion attack from the hot flue gas stream significantly enhances the higher wastage of metal when these cubes are exposed inthe furnace at elevated cemperature. The total cost of holler tube failures in power plants is estimated to be about $5 billion a year (1). Tube failures generally occurred in between fin, at ends and joints where the tube penetrates the support plate ddue to substantial adherent deposit formations. The scales present inside che water wall tubes have also been found to be one ofthe major contributors tothe tube failure. Heat transfer rate across the tube also decreases due tothe accumulated scales inside the tube, [will increase the metal temperature, and thereby result in crzosion and creep degradation, Moreover due to structural degradation ~ Conresponding author. Ball dave: senarprabu vines S. Sethur Prabe, haps: //do.rg/10.1016/ engfallina.2018.09.028, Received 19 Jne 2017; Received in revised form & December 2017; Acepted 21 September 2018 “Available online 2 September 2018 1350-8507/ © 2018 Hsevier Lid All rights reserved