ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Power Generating Equipment
Creep Rupture in a Superheated Steam Transfer Line
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Published:2019
Abstract
Rupture occurred at a bend in a superheated steam transfer line between a header and a desuperheater of a boiler producing 230 t/h of steam at 540 deg C and 118 kPa. The boiler had operated for 77,000 h. Rupture occurred along the outer bend radius of the 168 mm diam tube, this being of 1 Cr, 0.5 Mo steel with a wall thickness of 14 mm. The design temperature of this tube was 490 deg C, but there is evidence that it was operating at a temperature much above 500 deg C. Metallographic analysis disclosed an advanced stage...
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Member Sign InT.L. da Silveira, I. Le May, Creep Rupture in a Superheated Steam Transfer Line, ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Power Generating Equipment, ASM International, 2019, https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.fach.power.c9001000
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