ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Pulp and Paper Processing Equipment
Stress-Corrosion Cracking of Stainless Steel Falling Film Black Liquor Evaporator
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Published:2019
Abstract
A falling film black liquor evaporator consisted of flat twin plate heat exchangers and was used to increase black liquor solids content prior to its burning in the recovery boiler. Several plate heat exchangers were fabricated of AISI type 316L stainless steel by electric resistance welding. Cracks initiated at the inside surface of the welded areas and penetrated through the wall thickness. In several locations, the weld fractured and the plates separated with significant spring back, indicative of high residual stresses attributed to fabrication and weld procedures. The cracks had extended radially from the electric resistant weld into the...
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Member Sign InD. G. Chakrapani, Stress-Corrosion Cracking of Stainless Steel Falling Film Black Liquor Evaporator, ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Pulp and Paper Processing Equipment, ASM International, 2019, https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.fach.pulp.c9001567
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