CITATION

NALCO Chemical Company. Nalco Guide to Boiler Failure Analysis, 2nd Edition. US: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2011.

Nalco Guide to Boiler Failure Analysis, 2nd Edition

Published:  July 2011

eISBN: 9780071743013 0071743014 | ISBN: 9780071743006

Book description:

Practical, up-to-date techniques for identifying and eliminating common causes of boiler failure

Filled with more than 200 color images, The Nalco Guide to Boiler Failure Analysis, Second Edition categorizes distinct failure modes that typify nearly all boiler problems and walks you, step by step, through their solutions. Each type of failure is classified according to its location, general description, critical factors, identification, elimination, cautions, and related problems. Real-world case histories are included throughout. This authoritative resource contains new chapters on:

  • Phosphate corrosion

  • Stress-assisted corrosion

  • Steam and condensate damage

  • Flow-accelerated corrosion

Comprehensive coverage includes: Water- and steam-formed deposits * Short- and long-term overheating * Caustic corrosion * Low-pH corrosion * Hydrogen damage * Chelant complexing * Oxygen corrosion * Corrosion during cleaning * Corrosion fatigue cracking * Stress corrosion cracking * Graphitic corrosion * Dealloying * Cavitation * Erosion * Waterwall fireside corrosion * High-temperature furnace corrosion * Cold-end corrosion * Dew point corrosion * Fireside corrosion * Welding defects

Nalco Company is the world’s leading water treatment and process improvement company. Nalco's more than 10,000 employees work with more than 70,000 customers in 130 countries in industry, government, and institutions to solve and prevent problems, protect the environment, decrease costs, increase productivity, improve profitability by reducing customer total costs of operation, and maintain asset reliability. The group of scientists assembled to author the various sections of this edition work in Nalco’s metallurgy group, specializing in metallographic failure analysis investigations. They have conducted thousands of detailed metallographic failure analyses on boiler system components that focus on root cause determination.

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