We Provide Quality Water & Fireside Vessel Inspections, Combined with Water Conditioning & 24/7 System Water Monitoring
Scale Causes Damage in Other Ways & Not Just Efficiency Loss
Boiler Tubes, Scale & Under Deposits
Boiler tubes containing scale deposits create long-term reliability problems for the boiler. Deposits insulate the water in the tube from fire, causing the metal temperature to increase dramatically between the deposits and the tube metal. Longterm overheating of the metal will result in from prolonged operation with heavy tube deposits. The tubes will buldge, then fail. Because scale tends to be widespread, this generally means that large sections of the boiler tubing will be damaged and require replacement.
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The deposits also concentrate any boiler water chemistry and contamination that collects under them. The increased metal temperature caused by the deposit increases the rate of corrosion caused by any phosphate, caustic, or chloride underneath the deposit. With the exception of corrosion fatigue, all the water-side tube failures mechanisms occur under the deposits. Get rid of the deposits, and you also stop the water side tube failures.
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We Have Specialized Equipment to Perform Internal Water Side Inspection of Pressure Vessels
Most boiler failures can be prevented by internal inspections of the water ways in cast iron sections, firetube and water tube boilers.
We use specialized equipment to visually inspect high heat areas of the vessels.
Visual vessel and tube inspections help prevent catastrophic events, enhances safety, and ensures the boiler is running at peek fuel-to-steam efficiency. Scale drastically reduces heat transfer, and causes the metal to overheat and soften metal.
This incident was caused by delaminating scale falling off the the fire tube then getting lodged onto the sidewalls of the LWCO Float assembly.
You Can Restore Your Boilers Fuel Efficiency & Prevent Costly Repairs
