Sunday, April 21, 2019

Tube failure in S&T HE


Tubes at the tube sheet at hot air inlet have brittle fractured and cracked. This may be due to either 

 1)  Thermal shock /loading 

       or   

 2) Chloride stress cracking due to water quality above 50 ppm in chlorides . 



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