ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Chemical Processing Equipment
Stress-Corrosion Cracking of Austenitic Stainless Steel Evaporator Pans From an Unusual Cause
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Published:2019
Abstract
After about four years of service, cracks appeared on the internal or process-side surfaces of four evaporator pans in a sugar concentrator. The pans consisted of a Mo stabilized austenitic stainless steel inner vessel surrounded by a mild steel steam jacket. Corrosion of the external surface had taken place in the form of confluent pitting over a band adjacent to the fillet weld which attached the pan to the blocking ring. Numerous cracks were present in this corroded zone. Microscopical examination of several specimens cut from the sample revealed that the internal cracks in the pan itself originated from...
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