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Journal of KONES Powertrain and Transport, Vol. 19, No. 2 2012 FAILURE OF GAS TURBINE CONE BURNER BY CARBURIZATION Husaini Ardy Bandung Institute of Technology, Department of Materials Engineering Ganesa 10, Bandung 40132, Indonesia tel.: +62 22 251 2457, fax: +62 22 250 2265 e-mail: husaini@material.itb.ac.id Subawa Putra Indonesia Power, Bali Power Plant Business Unit I Gusti Ngurah Rai 535, Denpasar-Bali 80222, Indonesia tel.: +62 361 720 421, fax: +62 361 720 519 e-mail: subawa.putra@indonesiapower.co.id Toto Hardianto Bandung Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering Ganesa 10, Bandung 40132, Indonesia tel.: +62 22 250 4243, fax: +62 22 253 4099 e-mail: toto@termo.pauir.itb.ac.id Abstract Gas turbine for a power plant has 72 pieces of cone burner in its combustion chamber. High-speed diesel oil (HSD) is use as fuel to produce 130 MW of power at 3,000 rpm. The maximum temperature at the turbine inlet is estimated about 1087ºC and at the outlet is between 400-540ºC. Sixty percent of the cone burner failed repetitively at one side of the tip-end after 6,000 hours of service. The refurbished cone burner has to be replaced by a new one after 18,000 of service-hours. The cone burner material is cast Hastelloy-X (nickel b