Thursday, May 5, 2011

[MW:10945] RE: 10941] SS316L PWHT

Hello Mok,

MR-0175,Table A.2  specifies Environmental and materials limits for austenitic stainless steels(including S.S 316) used for any equipment or components. The requirements are:-

  • be in the solution-annealed and quenched, or annealed and thermally stabilized heat-treatment condition;
  • be free of cold work intended to enhance their mechanical properties; and
  • have a maximum hardness of 22 HRC

NACE does not have anything mentioned on post forming strain and teat treatment.

If the design code is Sec-VIII, DIV-1, then look under table UHA-44 for "POST FABRICATION STRAIN LIMITS AND REQUIRED HEAT TREATMENT" as a function of design temperature.

I hope this would help to clear the doubts.

Thanks.


Pradip Goswami,P.Eng.IWE
Welding & Metallurgical Specialist & Consultant
Ontario,Canada.
Email-
pgoswami@sympatico.ca,
pgoswami@quickclic.net



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Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 11:31 AM
To: Materials & Welding
Subject: [MW:10941] SS316L PWHT

Dear All,
We are fabricating two  vessels in SS316L (thickness 12mm) diameter 794mm each to be used as fuel gas separators. We have tried to convince our client that we don't need any PWHT for the shell, since the strain doesn't exceed 5% and that NACE MR0175 doesn' oblige that.
We decided to make the PWHT only for the dish ends.
But our client insisted to do it anyway for the whole vessels.
I need your input urgently

Best Regards,

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