Materials performance in plant exposures and laboratory simulation of a cement kiln environment

Rachel Pettersson, Jesper Flyg, Virginia Madina, Pascale Vangeli

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Abstract

The performance of high temperature steels, nickel-base overlay welds and carbon steel has been evaluated. Field exposures for 7000 hours at 615°C or 1450 hours at 805°C were conducted in a cement kiln fired principally with coke. The environment had a high ash content, a significant sulphur content, but only low levels of chloride. Laboratory simulation of the environment was carried out at 700°C for 960 hours with application of a 99% CaSO 4-1%KCl deposit every 160 hours. The gaseous atmosphere was N 2-30%CO 2-5%H 2O-1%O 2-0.03%SO 2. The steels investigated were Fe-25Cr-20Ni (UNS S31008, EN 1.4845), Fe-21Cr-11Ni-Si-N-Ce (UNS S30815, EN 1.4835) and Fe-15Cr-10Ni 6Mn-1Mo (UNS S21500, EN 1.4982) These were also compared with overlay weld metals of Ni-21Cr-9Mo-Nb (UNS N06625, EN 2.4856) and Ni-16Cr-16Mo-W (UNS N10276, EN 2.4819). Metal loss was evaluated from metrology and generally gave similar ranking of alloy performance from field and laboratory tests. The corrosion rate could be decreased by 50% to 99% by replacing carbon steel by higher alloyed materials. Detailed metallography has been used to elucidate the corrosion attack and the occurrence of oxidation and sulphidation at the reaction front.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication17th International Corrosion Congress 2008
Subtitle of host publicationCorrosion Control in the Service of Society
Pages2148-2158
Number of pages11
Publication statusPublished - 2008
Event17th International Corrosion Congress 2008: Corrosion Control in the Service of Society - Las Vegas, NV, United States
Duration: 6 Oct 200810 Oct 2008

Publication series

Name17th International Corrosion Congress 2008: Corrosion Control in the Service of Society
Volume4

Conference

Conference17th International Corrosion Congress 2008: Corrosion Control in the Service of Society
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLas Vegas, NV
Period6/10/0810/10/08

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