Early Detection of Boiler Tube Failures

Boiler tube failures can cause severe damage to steam-cycle fossil fuel plants, and are one of the leading causes of forced outages in these types of facilities worldwide. Not only are repairs extensive, downtime can cost up to $1 million USD per day for replacement power. Traditional tube leak detection systems can't spot the area of the leak and may miss smaller leaks completely, so how can these problems be detected? IHS Engineering360 shares a better way: acoustic monitoring. Benefits include lower repair costs, better outage planning, and the ability to detect multiple leaks at once. Here's why power plants are increasingly using this method.

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