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As fuel streams biomass and waste can co-fired, gasified, pyrolised, or directly combusted. Unfortunately, they can also be extremely aggressive fuels posing major materials engineering issues.
TWI has led the development of a range of thermally sprayed and nano-composite coatings aimed preventing the high corrosion, erosion and slagging that occur in biomass and wast-to-energy plant.
Also, with a strong pedigree in support of the thermal power industry TWI can support plant developers, operators and OEMs with structural integrity, fitness-for-service, and residual life assessment services.
The unrivalled combination of track record and innovation is particularly beneficial to biomass and waste-to-energy financers and developers seeking to understand better the challenges posed by these fuels streams and the technologies being developed to handle them.
Published paper
Corrosion mitigation in biomass combustion plant using thermal spray coatings
M A Riley and M D F Harvey
TWI Ltd, Cambridge, UK
Paper presented at COAL-GEN Europe, Katowice, Poland, 1-4 Sept. 2009.
Contact: power@twi.co.uk