Plant Monitoring Techniques and Second Generation Designs
- Key words
- Power Generation; Chemistry; Monitoring; Scaling; Corrosion; Coupons; PNL
- Conference
- Geothermal Resources Council Transactions
- Year
- 1985
- Session
- Scaling; Corrosion; Power plant design and operation; Equipm
- Language
- English
Abstract
Chemical and instrumental monitoring techniques suitable for geothermal use are described in a manner to relate them to plant operational problems and downtime avoidance. The use of these techniques permits the detection of scaling, the onset of scaling, corrosion loss, current corrosion rates and incipient heat exchanger failure. Conceptual advances are noted which simplify the research techniques to approaches that should be usable even in some low capital wellhead type power plants.
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