As China ramped-up coal power capacities rapidly while CO2 emissions need to decline,
these capacities would turn into stranded assets. To deal with this risk, a promising option is …

Fouling is a phenomenon where material accumulates on the exterior of convective heat
exchangers (HX) and other surfaces. In boilers fired by waste-derived or biomass fuels …

Depending on its operating conditions, traditional soot blowing is activated for a fixed time.
However, low-frequency soot blowing can cause heat transfer efficiency to decrease. High …

Owing to the lack of direct measurement on the slagging extent of the waterwall, random or
empirical soot-blowing strategies practiced in many power plants can result in untimely or …

During coal combustion in boilers, light fly ash particles are carried away along with the hot
flue gases and the heavier bottom ash particles fall to the bottom of the boiler. The fly ash …

Ash fouling has been an important factor in reducing the heat transfer efficiency and safety of
the coal-fired power plant boilers. Scientific and accurate prediction of ash fouling of heat …

Soot blowing optimization and health management of coal-fired power plant boiler has
received increasing attention in recent years. The ash fouling monitoring and prediction are …

Two interconnected mathematical models have been developed to describe slagging of a
steam boiler furnace at the macro and micro levels. The macro-level model is implemented …

In current power station boilers, fuel burns at a low temperature, which results in low exergy
efficiency. This research combined the second law of t with the boiler structure to maximize …

The technology of installing economizer has been proven to be an efficient way of
recovering waste heat from flue gas of coal-fired power plants. In this study, a novel …