Corrosion of Ceramic Bed in Regenerating Thermal Oxidizers
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Regenerating thermal oxidizers (RTO) are widely used across the US to destroy fugitive emissions from wood-processing plants and other industries. The use of ceramic beds in order to store and recover significant portions of the heat energy used for oxidizing the exhaust gas-fuel mix allows achieving up to 97% thermal efficiency. Dryers of wood chips in a typical wood processing plant are usually heated by burning wood-based biomass material. Some of the ash from the combustion is transported through the dryer and filtration devices making its way into the RTO and associated ceramic heat exchange beds. In addition, small wood particles entrained in the dryer exhaust gas escape capture as well and end up being burned inside the ceramic bed contributing to the total ash loading to the RTO. This ash typically contains Sodium and Potassium salts, which when exposed to high temperatures of the upper portions of the heat recovery bed and combustion chamber, can react with the ceramic materials contributing to their deterioration within a relatively short service period. The paper discusses factors responsible for the deterioration of the ceramic material within the heat recovery bed and in particular, the effects of temperature. It describes methods of semi-quantitative evaluation of the rate and extent of deterioration, which can be used to predict the time for changing the media.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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