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°C
Titanium oxide Reactors,
production 900 furnaces,
Fiberglass and so forth
Turbine recuperators
blades Aluminum
melting Fluidized bed
combustors
800
Waste
incineration, Boiler
plastics, tubes
refuse 700
Vinyl chloride
Fuel element monomer production
reprocessing
600 Uranium production

Mineral
chlorination
500

Ethylene dichloride
production
400

FIGURE 15.1 Representative process temperatures (adapted from [1]).

FIGURE 15.2 Massive attack
Metallographic
method of
measuring
hot corrosion
attack [3]. D 2

D
D 1

Intergranular attack
D = original diameter
D 1 = diameter of apparently useful metal
D 2 = diameter of metal unaffected by intergranular attack