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The only book available to help you learn how small solid particles carried in gas or liquids can cause significant materials degradation.
Energy production and utilization systems in recent years have seen an overall increase in the severity of operating conditions due to poorer quality fuels, more stringent exhaust emissions controls and more efficient use of fuels. The end result has been an extraordinary increase in the amount of material wastage caused by erosion type mechanisms.
This book will provide the vital information you need to understand and measure this deterioration. It will be especially useful to any engineers that are responsible for the design or operation of power plants such as coal gasifiers, fluid bed combustors, pulverized coal boilers, combined cycle power plants, gas turbine and diesel engines, steam turbines, and any other type of device that uses fluid flows with small, solid particles.
With findings from both field and laboratory situations, this reference guide will help you identify the various mechanisms that cause wastage and how to measure it under different operating conditions. There is also considerable metallographic evidence of erosion behavior that correlates with material wastage data to provide a clearer picture of the active wear mechanisms. Contents include:
- Mechanism of Erosion
- Effects of Mechanical Properties of Metals on Erosion
- Effects of Erodent Particle Characteristics on the Erosion of Steel
- Erosion & Erosion Corrosion of Steels at Elevated Temperatures
- Erosion Corrosion of Materials in Elevated Temperature Service
- Erosion of Protective Coatings, Slurry Erosion.
