Avoid stress corrosion cracking of stainless steel
03.01.2012
| Jain, A. D., Reliance Ports and Terminals Ltd., Navi Mumbai, India
This case history investigates equipment failure in a glycol unit
Keywords:
[corrosion]
[mono ethylene glycol]
[stress corrosion cracking]
[welds]
[heat exchanger]
In hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI) facilities, austenitic stainless steel (SS) is used for several reasons, including:
• Avoiding iron pickup and maintaining product purity
• Replacing carbon steel in operating services in which carbon steel is unsuitable, such as high temperature, corrosive fluids, highly toxic materials (HTM), etc.
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