Handbook of Case Histories in Failure Analysis
Failure Analysis of Fire Tube Sleeve of Heater Treater
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Published:2019
Abstract
A sleeve-shaped fire shield that operates inside one of two burner trains in an oil and gas processing unit ruptured after 15 y of service. A detailed analysis was conducted to determine how and why the sleeve failed. The investigation included visual inspection, chemical and gas analysis, mechanical property testing, stereomicroscopy, and metallographic examination. The fire sleeves are fabricated from 3-mm thick plate made of Incoloy 800 rolled into 540-mm diam sections welded along the seam. Three such sections are joined together by circumferential welds to form a single 2.8 m sleeve. The findings from the investigation indicated that...
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Member Sign InS.K. Srivastava, M.V. Katarki, Failure Analysis of Fire Tube Sleeve of Heater Treater, Handbook of Case Histories in Failure Analysis, Vol 3, Edited By Larry Berardinis, ASM International, 2019, p 462–467, https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.fach.v03.c9001818
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