Since the time the oil and chemical industry began to employ high pressure steam reformers for producing large volumes of hydrogen of relatively high purity, it has become increasingly apparent that creep rupture is the primary means by which catalyst tubes eventually fail. The consequences of such creep rupture failures, which ordinarily occur only after a unit has been in operation for a relatively long period of time, may be significant and involve damage to equipment and lost production.
Subject
Openings,
Heaters,
Tubes,
Creep damage,
Penetrants,
Magnification,
Inspection,
Fissures,
Base metals,
Stress,
Creep,
Steam,
Catalysts
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1980
Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP)
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