PowerGenerationBoilerLifeMonitorboilercomponents.pdf

Power Generation BoilerLife Monitor boiler components lifetime consumption ABB’s BoilerLife monitors boiler and steam pipes thick-walled components lifetime consumption. The thick walled components are subject to creeping caused by steam pressure and cyclic strain exhaustion caused by thermal stress induced from tem- perature cycles. Nowadays, the fluctuating load of wind and photovoltaic Solution renewables require increasing flexibility of fossil fired Optimax® BoilerLife Monitoring is a state-of-the-art lifetime power plants. The amount of start-ups and load changes monitoring package for boilers or heat recovery steam ge- are increasing, causing increased life time consumption. nerators. It provides power plant operators, engineers, and Plant maintenance personnel need to analyze thick-walled plant managers with automatic monitoring and prediction of components in order to detect unexpected increase of life critical component exhaustion in accordance with European time consumption. In order to prolong the boiler operation EN 12952-4 specification and German TRD 301, 508 rules. concession of the local authorities the plant maintenance personnel are supported by documented evidence of ABB‘s BoilerLife documents the lifetime consumption towards lifetime consumption. concession authorities while the ABB‘s BoilerMax controls the lifetime consumption of thick-walled components. Challenge Component stress in steam generators are strongly influ- Services enced by start-up and shut-down operations as well as varying ABB takes over complete turnkey responsibility for engineering, load cycles in the form of varying steam pressures and high installation, training, commissioning and support. thermal stresses. The varying loads