Disadvantages: First, it is not sensitive to a small amount of
oxide scale, and it needs a certain amount of accumulation to react. When the accumulation amount is large, the
linear relationship is poor; second, some materials of the
boiler tube will be ferromagnetic under high temperature service. In the magnetic measurement There will be misjudgment of
oxide scale accumulation
Fourth, the oxide
skin on the inner wall of the tube has a great influence on the quantification
Fifth, when the sensor is moved during measurement, the magnetic adsorption will change the original state of the accumulation, and after the accumulation is magnetized, the measurement data will become significantly larger again, and the detection
repeatability will be poor
Sixth, during the inspection process, the scanning speed and scanning direction have a great influence on the accuracy of the results, which are greatly affected by the level of the inspectors
Seventh, pipes with ferrite
spray coating on the outer wall cannot be tested
[0007] But its disadvantages are: first, it is not sensitive to a small amount of scale, and it needs a certain amount of accumulation to react, and the
linear relationship is poor when the amount of accumulation is large; second, some materials of boiler tubes will be ferromagnetic under high temperature service. There will be misjudgment of scale accumulation during magnetic measurement
Fourth, the oxide
skin on the inner wall of the tube has a great influence on the quantification
Fifth, when the sensor is moved during measurement, the magnetic adsorption will change the original state of the accumulation, and after the accumulation is magnetized, the measurement data will become significantly larger again, and the detection
repeatability will be poor
Sixth, during the inspection process, the scanning speed and scanning direction have a great influence on the accuracy of the results, which are greatly affected by the level of the inspectors
Seventh, pipes with ferrite
spray coating on the outer wall cannot be tested
Eighth, the oxide accumulation thickness cannot be measured
[0008] The invention
patent application with the publication number CN101587096A discloses a method for non-
destructive testing of the scale thickness distribution in stainless steel pipes, using conventional eddy currents with a frequency of several thousand to tens of thousand Hz, combined with computer acquisition and
signal data corresponding to the position of the sensor phase to determine However, due to the inherent existence of the
skin effect of
eddy current, under the conventional
eddy current detection frequency, for thick-walled pipes, or the thickness of the oxide skin accumulation exceeds a certain range, the
eddy current field will be greatly weakened, so that the thickness of the oxide skin The increase and decrease cannot be truly reflected, especially when the oxide skin is blocked and close to filling the inner wall of the
pipe, the thickness is the largest, which shows the insufficiency of this method
Second, in order to establish the relative position between the computer acquisition and the acquisition point, a mechanical positioning device similar to an
encoder must be placed on the sensor in the axial and circumferential directions, which will inevitably make the device very complicated and cumbersome, and it will be difficult for the bends that are most likely to be clogged by oxide scales. Difficult to locate accurately at
pipe diameter change
Moreover, the arrangement of power
plant boilers is dense, and there is only a narrow space between the tubes, and the detection device that is too large cannot be tested on site.
Oxide scale detection in
engineering is often carried out during emergency repairs. The
time limit is very short, and multiple rows of pipes need to be inspected within a limited time. The fine scanning that takes a lot of time has no practical application value in
engineering applications.