...Jan Peter Schupsky; Muxing Guo; Bart Blanpain; Michael Müller In entrained flow gasifiers, the production of oxidic slag accompanies the gasification process. This slag forms a layer on the refractory walls, flows downwards gravitationally, and is collected in a water quench. Hence, the slag flow...

... systematically detected under otherwise normal operation. Prior experimental evidence had led to the identification of the slag particles as a possible agent for such an erosion: these particles are removed from the surface of the first row of the tubes by the steam jet ejected from the sootblower, and may cause...