A 2021 Prewin Network Unplanned Shutdown Survey has revealed that equipment failures in Waste to Energy (WtE) and Biomass plants were responsible for a total of 22.9 days of unplanned shutdowns in 2021, and 43% of equipment failure classifications were boilers.

Furthermore, boilers alone were responsible for an average of 9.9 days of unplanned shutdowns in 2021, with the radiation part accounting for 49% of boiler failures, followed by the economizer (28%), convective part (20%) and other (3%).

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