ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Power Generating Equipment
Corrosion of Copper Cooling-Water Tubing in a Heat Exchanger
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Published:2019
Abstract
A straight-tube cooler type heat exchanger had been in service for about ten years serving a coal pulverizer in Georgia. Non-potable cooling water from a local lake passed through the inner surfaces of the copper tubing and was cooling the hot oil that surrounded the outer diametral surfaces. Several of the heat exchangers used in the same application at the plant had experienced a severe reduction in efficiency in the past few years. One heat exchanger reportedly experienced some form of leakage following discovery of oil contaminating the cooling water. This heat exchanger was the subject of a failure...
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Member Sign InA.H. Khan, Corrosion of Copper Cooling-Water Tubing in a Heat Exchanger, ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Power Generating Equipment, ASM International, 2019, https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.fach.power.c9001700
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