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Design Technology for Supercritical Sliding Pressure

Operation Vertical Water Wall Boilers
- First report: History of Practical Application and
Introduction of Enhanced Rifled Tube -

Kenjiro Yamamoto *1 Hiroshi Suganuma *2

Kazuhiro Domoto *3 Yoshinori Yamasaki *4

Yuichi Kanemaki*5 Hiroyuki Nakaharai*5

A supercritical sliding pressure operation once-through boiler with vertical water wall tubes
uses high-cooling-capability rifled tubes for its furnace walls. This type of boiler consists of
vertically arranged tubes, instead of a complex spirally wound structure, so that it can improve
performance, reliability and economic efficiency.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) started to employ this type of boiler for commercial
operation at Unit 1 (700 MW) of the Matsuura Power Plant of Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc. as
the world’s first application in 1989, as well as in Units 1 and 2 (700 MW each) in the Kawagoe
Thermal Power Plant of Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc. in 1989 and 1990. Since then, MHI has
provided approximately 50 units of this type – 10 domestically and 40 overseas – including
licensing of the technology. The superiority of this type of boiler has been universally
acknowledged, and in recent years, several boiler manufacturers have started to introduce this
type.
It has been verified that applying high-cooling-capability rifled tubes to the boiler furnace
wall enhances the self-correcting action relaxing the steam temperature imbalance across the
furnace water wall outlet section, which is caused by inevitable variations of heat absorption in
each part of the water walls. This preferable action encourages not only load follow-up
performance, but also durability against the upgraded steam condition, the former of which is
required by expanding the introduction of renewable energy and the latter required for the
reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
This report explains the design optimization of the furnace water wall system reflecting
operational data, advanced technological methods, and the operating guidelines established based
on continuous research and development work on heat transfer and hydrodynamic characteristics
for furnace water walls with rifled tubes. Also, this report partially introduces the
higher-performance vertical water wall tube boiler using new rifled tubes, which will be detailed in
the upcoming document (second report).

|1. Introduction
MHI has provided many supercritical sliding pressure operation vertical water wall tube
once-through boilers to the market since the late 1980s, and therefore, understands deeply furnace
heat flux distribution and heat transfer, as well as the flow characteristics of water wall tubes under
various operating conditions. For rifled tubes, MHI has succeeded in overcoming significant
*1 Senior Manager, Boiler Engineering Department, Power Systems, P.E.Jp (Mechanical Engineering)
*2 Manager, Boiler Engineering Department, Power Systems
*3 Engineering Manager, Boiler Engineering Department, Power Systems
*4 Boiler Engineering Department, Power Systems
*5 Engineering Manager, Nagasaki Research & Development Center, Technology & Innovation Headquarters
*6 Nagasaki Research & Development Center, Technology & Innovation Headquarters, Ph.D. in Engineering
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research and development challenges about heat transfer and flow characteristics by utilizing the
latest technology in the field of CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) analysis and the
supercritical pressure heat transfer and hydrodynamic test facility at the MHI Nagasaki Research &
Development Center (MHI-NRDC).
These advanced design and heat transfer technologies allow the improved design of vertical
tube boilers that have higher performance, operability and reliability.

|2. History of development and some of the epochs in the practical

application of Mitsubishi vertical tube boilers
As shown in Figure 1, MHI's first supercritical sliding pressure operation once-through
boiler was a spirally-wound-type boiler with smooth tubes. However, this boiler had a significant
pressure drop at the water wall tubes because its fluid mass velocity was high and the tubes were
long. Therefore, there was the problem of flow stability, which is described in the chapters below,
together with the disadvantages of not only the increased boiler feed water pump power
consumption due to its significant pressure drop but also the complicated structure of the furnace
wall.

Figure 1 History of MHI’s research on heat transfer and hydrodynamic characteristics of

boiler evaporator tubes and development of a boiler circulation system

In order to deal with such an undesirable situation, MHI focused on the superior heat transfer
and hydrodynamic characteristics of the rifled tubes that had been already put to practical use in
subcritical pressure boilers. MHI independently began research and development work on rifled
tubes for supercritical sliding pressure operation boilers, and employed the vertical water wall tube
type for supercritical sliding pressure once-through boilers.1
The first deliveries were Unit 1 (700 MW)2 of the Matsuura Thermal Power Plant of Kyushu
Electric Power Co., Inc., which started commercial operation in 1989, and Units 1 and 2 (700 MW
each)3 at the Kawagoe Thermal Power Plant of Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc., which started
operation in 1989 and 1990. These boilers realized simple structure, high performance and high
reliability.
Since then, MHI has been moving forward with tireless innovations based on significant
operational experience to improve furnace water wall design technologies.4 As a result, one
overseas plant that has recently started operation can maintain a stable temperature profile at the
furnace outlet section, even when the furnace outlet enthalpy rises to a large extent, and also has
been operated with a good load follow-up rate as high as 5%/min and above5 (Figure 2).
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Figure 2 Load follow-up performance at overseas plant (as high as 5%/min)

|3. Advantages of Mitsubishi vertical tube boilers

Figure 3 and Table 16 show the advantages of vertical water wall tube boilers over spirally
wound water wall tube boilers.
3.1 Pressure drop characteristics
Vertical tube boilers have smaller pressure drop, and boiler feed water pump power
consumption can be reduced in comparison with spirally wound boilers because of the lower mass
velocity and shorter tube length of the water wall.

Figure 3 Comparison between vertical tube furnace structure and spirally wound tube
furnace structure
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Table 1 Superiority of vertical tube boiler

(A) MHI low mass velocity vertical design (B) Spirally wound design
Mass velocity @ BMCR 1,000-1,900kg/m2s 3,000kg/m2s
Furnace tube adopted Rifled tube Smooth tube
Heat transfer rate of fluid High Base
Flow characteristics Good Base
Furnace outlet fluid
temperature profile
Base
(1) High load (1) Even due to appropriate flow distribution
(2) Low load (2) Even due to low mass velocity
Supply record 50 or more boilers since 1989 Many

3.2 Installation aspects

Vertical tube boilers have a simpler structure in comparison with spirally wound boilers, and
therefore, the variation of the mechanism for furnace supports, such as stiffeners, attachments and
so on can be significantly reduced, resulting in superiority in terms of installation, reliability and
maintenance.
3.3 Ash adherence aspects
Because the furnace wall tubes of vertical boilers are placed vertically, ash can fall off easily
and this results in a smaller amount of ash adhering to the furnace wall surface. This becomes a
significant advantage, especially when high-slag coal such as sub-bituminous coal is used.
3.4 Flow characteristics
For spiral boilers, when the heat absorption of certain water wall tubes increases due to the
falling of slag or other factors, the metal temperature of the tubes tends to rise excessively. The
reason for this is because the fluid flow is reduced due to the significant increase of friction loss
caused by the sharp increase of fluid volumetric velocity resulting from the sharp increase in
specific volume. This temperature increase in the furnace wall tube metal may cause deformation
of the furnace wall in a short time or shorten the lifecycle by repeated increases in temperature over
long periods.
For vertical tube boilers, in contrast, the fluid flow reduction in tubes with such transitional
increases of heat absorption as above is lower, and the increase in tube metal temperature is very
limited.
The mechanism of this smaller fluid flow reduction in vertical tubes is described below. Even
though fluid velocity increases, the increase in friction loss is limited. As for the total pressure
drop, the sum of friction loss and static head from the bottom to the top of the furnace water wall
does not increase significantly, which results in a smaller reduction of fluid flow.
By investigating deeply this mechanism, if the lower mass velocity in the rifled tube could be
attained, the further limited increase in friction loss should be attained to the extent that the total
pressure drop could be reduced by a predominant decrease of the static head resulted from the
increase in specific volume. This is the preferred nature, the so-called, “natural circulation flow
characteristics,” – a fluid flow increase along with a heat absorption increase.
These ideal flow characteristics required an innovation that overcomes the tradeoff where the
even lower mass velocity inevitably induces a higher metal temperature. The enhanced new type
refiled tube developed by MHI can solve this dilemma.
3.5 Flow stability
Although typical vertical tube boilers have good flow characteristics as described above, it
must be considered that the extremely low mass velocity would worsen the flow stability because
there would be a concern that the fluid flow rate might be reduced too much when heat absorption
changes.
Based on design technology and many examples of actual applications of vertical tube
boilers, MHI optimizes furnace water wall tube hydrodynamic characteristics depending on the
selected mass velocity in order to avoid worsening the flow stability and ensuring good flow
characteristics.7
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In addition, unstable flow (density-wave oscillation) may occur due to the void rate, pressure
drop and/or flow rate transfer lag in the flow path system. It is generally known that density-wave
oscillation has a greater tendency to occur when the inlet flow rate is lower and also when the inlet
pressure is lower. A vertical tube boiler with low mass velocity may have issues with the
occurrence of density-wave oscillation during low load operation at a low fluid pressure. This is
one of the considerations in designing vertical tube boilers.8
3.6 Load follow-up capability
When the load change rate is small, the amount of fuel and water fed into the furnace is
adjusted so that both inputs are balanced. When the load change rate is large, on the other hand, the
temperature of the superheater (SH) and reheater (RH) may deviate from the rated temperature
because in addition to the heat absorption of the furnace, SH and RH are also affected by heat input
fluctuations. In other words, the steam temperature deviation of SH and RH may constitute a
certain limit to the rate of load change, and therefore, a fuel and water feeding method that does not
enlarge the steam temperature deviation of SH and RH is key to improve the rate of load change
(Figure 4).
When the rate of load change is large, the amount of fuel and water fed into the furnace
transiently needs to be changed significantly, individually and quickly in comparison with a steady
condition. Therefore, the employment of a furnace water wall system with good flow
characteristics and flow stability contributes essentially to the improvement of the rate of load
change.

Figure 4 Load follow-up performance of the latest vertical tube boiler high
rate of load change

|4. Matured technologies necessary for optimum design of vertical

tube boilers
Key factors in the design process of a furnace water wall with rifled tubes in supercritical
sliding pressure operation boilers are:
- To prevent heat transfer deterioration, such as DNB (Departure from Nucleate Boiling)
in the subcritical pressure region and in the supercritical pressure region
- To minimize the fluid temperature imbalance at the furnace outlet section
The accumulated experience of MHI’s design technology for the above is presented below.
4.1 Vast data accumulated through continuous development work on rifled tubes
There have been studies for a long time on internally grooved tubes as typified by rifled
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tubes. Many researchers have reported the heat transfer deterioration phenomena in which the tube
wall temperature sharply rises incurred by the increase of heat flux or the decrease of mass
velocity.10-13
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MHI started heat transfer and hydrodynamic tests in large diameter rifled tubes for natural
circulation boilers and smooth tubes in the 1960s when high temperature and high pressure heat
transfer test facilities were established at MHI-NRDC. In 1979, the supercritical pressure heat
transfer test loop (Figure 5) was established. Some of the test results were collected into the first
paper, which was presented at the 7th International Heat Transfer Conference in 1982.14 This was
the world’s first paper that described in detail the relationship between the heat transfer coefficient
and the pressure near critical pressure, both for rifled tubes and smooth tubes. Since then, MHI has
been acquiring data systematically and continuously, and a huge amount of data about the heat
transfer and hydrodynamics of rifled tubes have been accumulated.15
Some experimental research reports have been made by other companies or laboratories as
follows. Ackerman16 reported the inhibitory effect of rifled tubes on heat transfer deterioration in
the supercritical pressure range. Nishikawa et al.17 found that supercritical pressure heat transfer
deterioration occurred even with rifled tubes and the possibility of heat transfer deterioration might
depend on the ribbed shape (internally grooved shape). In recent years, J. Wang18 and J. Pan et al.19
also reported on the supercritical pressure heat transfer characteristics of rifled tubes.
In the 1990s, some reports20-23 about CFD analysis on supercritical pressure fluid were
presented, but they covered comparatively simple shapes such as smooth tubes. MHI has
independently established an analysis method for supercritical pressure heat transfer fluid with
rifled tubes and is proceeding with effective research and development using CFD analysis.
The new rifled tubes described in this report, which comprise the heart of the technologies
used in the latest vertical tube boiler, have been developed based on vast amounts of test data
accumulated over the years by combining the most advanced CFD analysis methods and the
evaluation based on experiments using the supercritical pressure heat transfer test loop at
MHI-NRDC.

Figure 5 Supercritical pressure heat transfer test loop at MHI-NRDC

4.2 Detailed heat transfer characteristics of actual boilers

In a supercritical sliding pressure operation once-through boiler, the pressure varies from the
subcritical pressure region to the supercritical pressure region, and there occurs, in the furnace
water wall tubes, various modes of heat transfer phenomena including forced convection heat
transfer (nucleate boiling heat transfer and film boiling heat transfer) of single liquid phase (water),
single vapor phase (steam), and vapor-liquid two-phase (steam and water) flow, as well as
supercritical pressure heat transfer. Therefore, it is essential to have a mature analytical method for
each mode of heat transfer phenomenon for optimized furnace water wall system design.
MHI has comprehensive analytical technologies for all aspects based on MHI’s test data and
experience with actual boilers. Figure 6 shows the evaluation of heat transfer phenomena of rifled
tubes at various pressures.
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Figure 6 Evaluation of heat transfer phenomena of rifled tubes at various pressures

4.3 Accumulation of heat flux data based on experience with actual boilers
When operated at partial load at supercritical pressure, the specific heat of the steam at the
outlet of the furnace water wall is comparatively small and a steam temperature imbalance at the
same elevation of furnace wall caused by the deviation of heat absorption tends to occur, and
therefore, it is important for the mechanical design of the furnace walls to take into account this
temperature imbalance.
MHI employs a circular firing system for its boilers to attain efficient combustion. As a
result, the furnace heat flux distribution is milder than that of opposed or front firing boilers, but
still occurs to a certain extent. MHI has designed a flow-balanced furnace water wall system based
on various data with actual boiler and analysis technologies to minimize the outlet enthalpy
difference (temperature difference) between the furnace wall tubes caused by the difference in heat
flux distribution depending on the coal type used or the boiler load. For coal-fired boilers, it is
necessary to take into consideration the intermittent fluctuation of the heat absorption of the
furnace wall tubes caused by the falling of slag adhered to the furnace wall, and also robust design
that accommodates various patterns of heat absorption is important.
MHI can consider any heat absorption pattern using the accumulated operating data of many
vertical tube boilers and has succeeded in attaining stable temperature characteristics at the furnace
wall outlet under all operating conditions by flow adjustment in the furnace wall tubes and
optimization of the entire water wall system, which also includes the furnace exit connecting tube,
etc.

|5. Optimized selection of mass velocity for vertical tube boilers

5.1 Furnace sectional heat flux and mass velocity selection
The key factors in designing vertical tube boilers described in section 4.2, namely heat
transfer deterioration and temperature difference at the furnace outlet, are closely related to the
mass velocity of the fluid in furnace water wall tubes. In the design process, the mass velocity is
not selected randomly but typically determined considering the following conditions:
(1) Flow rate through furnace water wall tubes
In general, the flow rate is subject to the unit power output depending on the steam
condition and spray amount of a desuperheater.
(2) Number of furnace wall tubes
MHI employs membrane walls, consisting of tubes and fins. The pitch of the furnace wall
tubes is selected, taking into account how much the fins are cooled. The number of furnace wall
tubes generally depends on the pitch and the peripheral length of the furnace, the latter of which
is linked to its cross-sectional area.
The selection of the furnace size (cross-sectional area, volume, etc.) is made by taking
into account not only the unit power output, but also the slagging characteristics of the furnace,
for which MHI can make a suitable selection based on its vast experience with various types of
fuel.
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(3) Fluid flow sectional area of furnace water wall tube
The fluid flow sectional area depends on the tube specifications such as outer diameter,
wall thickness, etc.
The required minimum wall thickness of the furnace water wall tubes is determined
individually in terms of tube material and mechanical strength against pressure and
temperature, which limits the range of mass velocity to a certain extent.
5.2 Relationship between furnace water wall tube heat transfer characteristics and
mass velocity
The conditions at which the DNB phenomenon occurs in the subcritical pressure range
represented with mass velocity and steam quality are shown in Figure 7.24 DNB occurs in the area
where the quality is higher than each solid line. As shown in this figure, the upper limit of the
steam quality where a rifled tube can suppress DNB is higher than that of a smooth tube. Generally,
in once-through boilers using smooth tubes, it is unavoidable to have DNB and resultant film
boiling at the furnace water wall tubes, and it is also well known that the lower the steam quality,
the lower the heat transfer rate becomes in film boiling, then it is important to keep the mass
velocity high so that cooling capability can be kept as high as possible to properly suppress the
temperature rise. When a rifled tube is used, on the other hand, DNB can be prevented at higher
steam quality, even when the mass velocity is low.
In the similar manner as Figure 7, the heat transfer deterioration conditions in the
supercritical pressure range represented with mass velocity and heat flux are shown in Figure 824,
in which heat transfer deterioration occurs in the area where the heat flux is higher and the mass
velocity is lower. If heat transfer deterioration occurs, the tube wall temperature can rise sharply,
and the safety of the furnace water wall may not be maintained.
Heat transfer deterioration causes wall tubes not only short-term creep rapture, but also
fatigue damage with abrupt temperature changes generated by heat flux fluctuations. In the latter
case, corrosive thinning such as groove corrosion (or so-called alligator cracking) may occur
after many amount of temperature change. Therefore, heat transfer deterioration is one
phenomenon that needs to be avoided.
As described in section 4.1, the occurrence conditions of heat transfer deterioration may
differ depending on the shape of the rib. For improvement in the reliability of vertical tube boilers,
it is important to develop rifled tubes that are unlikely to exhibit heat transfer deterioration, even at
low mass velocity and high heat flux.

Figure 7 DNB characteristics of rifled Figure 8 Conditions where heat transfer

tubes and smooth tubes at subcritical deterioration occurs at supercritical
pressure pressure (smooth tube)
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5.3 Development of new rifled tubes
Rifled tubes that suppress not only DNB at subcritical pressure but also heat transfer
deterioration at supercritical pressure are preferable as described in section 5.2. It is generally
acknowledged that an effective method for DNB suppression at a subcritical pressure range is to
make the rib higher and the lead angle larger against fluid flow. In addition, it is suggested that the
rib shape also has a significant influence on heat transfer deterioration at supercritical pressure as
described in section 4.1. MHI has developed rifled tubes that can avoid both DNB at subcritical
pressure and heat transfer deterioration at supercritical pressure, and is applying them to actual
boilers. In this development, MHI revealed the relationship between the internal groove shape and
the heat transfer characteristics of rifled tubes by analyzing in detail test data acquired and
accumulated with various shapes of rifled tubes, and used the latest CFD analysis techniques
(Figure 9) to evaluate the heat transfer deterioration mechanism. At the supercritical pressure heat
transfer test loop in MHI-NRDC, MHI has also verified that the new rifled tubes developed in this
way have good performance throughout actual pressure and temperature (Figure 10).
Although it has been imagined that an effective method for DNB suppression is to make the
rib higher and the lead angle larger against fluid flow, several researchers(18)(19) have reported that
rifled tubes designed in such a way tend to exhibit heat transfer deterioration at supercritical
pressure. Therefore, MHI used both CFD analysis and the supercritical pressure heat transfer test
loop at MHI-NRDC to carefully verify the selection of the rifled tube specifications that can
suppress both DNB at subcritical pressure and heat transfer deterioration at supercritical pressure.
Over the entire development process, from the planning of the concept to actual boiler application,
the combination of CFD analysis and verification at the test loop has worked effectively for
development.

Figure 9 Analysis of rifled tube Figure 10 Heat transfer characteristics of new rifled
based on CFD analysis tube

5.4 Boiler design for application of new rifled tube

The bottleneck caused by heat transfer deterioration as described above has now been
cleared, and the sufficiently low-mass velocity design becomes possible. The latest vertical tube
boiler with the improved rifled tube attains good flow characteristics and fluid stability in the
furnace water wall. In addition, by employing advanced furnace design technologies, it has the
prospect of meeting further higher steam parameters. A detailed verification will be presented in
the next report.

|6. Conclusion
This report describes the design technologies used for the latest supercritical sliding pressure
operation vertical tube boiler, which significantly improves the heat transfer and hydrodynamic
characteristics of the furnace water wall. This type of boiler has been realized and will
succeedingly provide higher operability and reliability, using advanced design technologies based
on continuous development work on rifled tubes and vast experience with actual boilers.
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