• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 1990.04a
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• pp.1-34
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• 1990

• Plant Journal
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.38-49
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• 2021

In order to increase power plant efficiency, the steam temperature was increased to 610 ℃ which deteriorates the durability of the boiler tube and as the use of low-calorie coal increases the post combustion and delayed combustion phenomenon, the overheating of the final reheater and the tube rupture are becoming frequent. In order to prevent overheating of the final reheater, desuperheater water injection was increased, leading to a decrease in boiler efficiency. In this study install a baffle plate at the back of some overheated tube groups, thereby reduce the temperature of the tube by reducing the amount of combustion gas, and the reduced combustion gas moves to an adjacent place to increase the temperature of other tubes. As a result of the study, the temperature deviation between tubes decreased 1.5. And the heat-reducing injection amount was reduced to 6,929 kg/h and the maximum tube temperature was reduced to 623.4℃ which is 6.6℃ more below than the control standard of 630℃.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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• 1999.10a
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• pp.235-235
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• 1999

화력 발전소의 드럼형 보일러 제어 프로세스에 있어 드럼 수위(Drum Level)의 정확한 측정은 매우 중요하다. 만약 드럼 수위가 불안정하게 되면 급수 유량 제어가 불안정하여 증기 온도 제어를 불안정하게 하고, 증기 온도의 변화는 보일러 출구 증기 압력을 변화시켜 연소 제어 계통을 불안정하게 한다. 결국 드럼 수위의 불안정은 발전소 전체 프로세스를 불안정하게 한다. 또한 드럼 수위의 오지시로 인해 수위가 과도하게 높아져 물이 터빈에 유입되면 터빈 날개의 파손을 가져오고, 반대로 수위가 너무 낮으면 과열로 인한 보일러 튜브의 파열을 초래하기도 한다. 특히, 보일러의 기동시 또는 과도상태일 때는 드럼 압력의 변화에 따른 water 및 steam의 밀도 변화로 인한 오차가 크며, 압력 대 밀도(비중)의 관계가 비선형 함수이므로 별도의 압력검출기에 의해 드럼 압력을 측정하여 압력 변화에 따른 오차를 보정해주어야 하는데 아날로그 시스템의 경우에는 이러한 압력 수위 보정을 기준 압력에 대해서만 하므로 기동시 또는 과도상태에서의 수위 제어에 많은 문제점이 있다. 본고에서는 이러한 보일러 드럼 수위 압력 보정의 유.무에 따라 드럼 수위 변화에 대해 시뮬레이션을 하여 압력 보정이 드럼 수위에 미치는 영향을 고찰하고자 한다.

• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.20 no.7
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• pp.478-485
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• 2008

The extreme steam temperature deviation experienced in the superheater of a tangentially fired boiler can seriously affect its economic and safe operation. This temperature deviation is one of the main causes of boiler tube failures. The steam temperature deviation is mainly due to the thermal load deviation in the lateral direction of the superheater. The thermal load deviation consists of several causes. One of the causes is the non-uniform heat flow distribution of burnt gas on the superheater tube system. This distribution is very difficult to measure in situ using direct experimental techniques. So, we need thermal load model to estimate the tube temperature. In this paper, we propose a thermal load distribution model by using CFD analysis and plant data. We successfully predict the tube temperature and the steam flow rate in a final superheater system from the thermal load model and one dimensional heat-flow system analysis. The proposed model and analysis method would be valuable in preventing the frequent tube failure of the final superheater tubes.

• Journal of Power System Engineering
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.20-24
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• 2003

Boiler is one of the most important utilities providing steam to turbine in order to supply mechanical energy in thermal power plant. It is composed of thousands of tubes for high efficient heat transfer. Water is converted to steam inside the waterwall tubes. Many chemical components dissolved in boiler water come out of itself, deposit to the tube wall surface, prohibit heat transer, raise tube metal temperature, eventually fail the boiler tubes. Several tasks such as fracture surface study, tensile test, hardness test, metallurgical test, composition analysis of sticking elements were conducted to identify the root cause of tube failure.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.287-293
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• 2013

This study was carried out to diminish the formation of scale in boilers which is one of the defect elements when they are operating. The defect relating to scale can cause a fatal impact on the explosion of boilers due to the overheating of their tubes, or it can affect the flow of water inside boilers with its bad circulation and result in a disparity of water inside the equipment. Heat transfer in the scale is low comparing to the boiler material, so it can lead to energy losses and has also impact on the global warming. In 2005, the Korean government introduced a system which requires boiler users to install the equipment which can prevent or eliminate the formation of scale to improve the management of water quality in boilers. The study on the techniques for preventing or eliminating the formation of scale started in 1821 and since then subsequently there have been lots of similar studies. The first one was about the scale reduction using potato starch. Since an ultrasonic scale preventer developed by a scientist from a Russian acoustic institute was introduced in1993, a variety of equipment of this kind have been disseminated in Korea. There has been a need to demonstrate the condition for the best performances of such equipment. Boilers are mostly composed of the main body and 288 the tube with a circular curved surface. I carried out a demonstration study on a circular tube which affects the scale defect the most among the boiler components. As a result of it, I found out the fact that the ultrasonic wave needs to reach a certain level of sound pressure and frequency to affect the formation of scale.