While welded stainless steel heat exchanger tubes are made from many different alloys classed as stainless steels ranging from the straight chromium-iron alloys, such as Type 405 and Type 410, to the very highly alloyed materials such as Carpenter 20Cb-3 and Hastelloy B and C, by far the greatest volume produced is in Types 304 and 316, and the "L” grades of these types. Also, these welded stainless steel heat exchanger tubes are used in a wide variety of services, ranging from highly critical nuclear applications to much less critical low pressure heat exchangers, where corrosion resistance in the most frequently used sense is of little or no significance; stainless steel being used in these latter applications largely to insure product purity.

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Test methods, Manufacturing, Tubes, Welding, Machinery, Inspection, Rolling, Tubing, Heat exchangers, Equipment, Stainless steel, Cold working, Annealing
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1976
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