Toughness Evaluation of 1/2 Mo Steel Using for Pressure Vessel

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  • OKADA Hachiro
    Material Technology Dep., Chiyoda Chemical Engineering and Construction Ltd.
  • MURAKAMI Yoshikuni
    Steel Product & Fabrication Division, The Japan Steel Works, Ltd.

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  • 使用中圧力容器における1/2 Mo鋼の靱性評価
  • シヨウチュウ アツリョク ヨウキ ニ オケル Mo コウ ノ ジンセイ ヒョウ

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Abstract

Experience of Accidents at petroleum-refining plants strongly demand improvements in the safety of facility operations. Brittle fracture at relatively low temperature is the most catastorophic type of accident of pressure vessel that can occur in use. To prevent it, various approaches of reliability evaluation have been taken. The most important factor in reliability evaluation is the toughness of the construction material. There are more than a few cases in which a fracture originated in lower toughness than expected.<BR>Pressure vessels of 1/2 Mo steel are the most widely used in such petroleum-refining facilities as naphtha, kerosene, and light oil hydrotreating reactors. The significance of their toughness has become highlighted resently.<BR>22 samples of 1/2 Mo steels, which had been in long-term service for pressure vessels, were investigated for the purpose of prediction of the vTrs of 1/2 Mo steel. It was found that the vTrs of 1/2 Mo steel can be estimated nondestructively by using the following parameter.<BR>vTrs(°C)= 22.6 X-32.59<BR>X= 100 (P+B)/ HV·N<BR>where P+B: Pearlite plus bainite fractions in the microstructure, HV: Vickers hardness, N: ASTM ferrite grain size No.

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  • Tetsu-to-Hagane

    Tetsu-to-Hagane 73 (3), 544-550, 1987

    The Iron and Steel Institute of Japan

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