ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Chemical Processing Equipment
Failure Analysis for a Carbon Steel Vaporizer Coil
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Published:2019
Abstract
A root cause failure analysis was performed on a vaporizer coil removed from a horizontal forced circulation vaporizer. The carbon steel coil was wound in a right-hand helix with a coil centerline diameter of about 2 m. The vaporizer was gas fired and used Dowtherm A as the heat transfer fluid. Design conditions are based on annular fluid flow to cool the coil wall. NDE, metallographic and fractographic examinations were performed. Numerous, circumferentially oriented, OD initiating cracks were found near the crown for two coils near the non-fired end of the vaporizer. The cracking was confined to the inner...
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Member Sign InY. C. Lin, F. V. Ellis, Failure Analysis for a Carbon Steel Vaporizer Coil, ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Chemical Processing Equipment, ASM International, 2019, https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.fach.chem.c9001686
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