Demands for sour service requirements for （要求的服务要求）.pdf

Demands for sour service requirements for pressure vessel steel plates In the view of the steel producer a a a a Steffen Martin , Luxenburger Günter , Thieme Andreas , Demmerath Anja aDillinger Hütte GTS PO-Box 1580 D-66748 Dillingen/Saar name.prename@dillinger.biz Abstract: The first documented reports about sour service damaging are more than 50 years old. For that long period sour service has been an important issue of numerous engineers in different type of companies. In spite of this quite long tradition of this issue Oil-, gas- and engineering companies as well as many organisations like NACE or EFC are working still today on improved regulations. These general rules or recommended practices are aiming to prevent sour service induced damaging of the steel structures like hydrogen induced cracking (HIC) and sulphide stress corrosion cracking (SSC). All well known requirements in the field of pressure vessel applications will be summarised especially focussing on the selection and treatment of the steel. It shall be shown in which way a steel producer with large experience in manufacturing plates for sour service adapts these demands on HIC, SSC and SOHIC from the specifications for the production of sour resistant steel plates with implying a risk assessment for the plate production. Finally a reasonable specification practice in the view of a steel plate manufacturer is proposed. Introduction Although the problem of failure of pressure vessels operated in sour services is faced some 50 years there is nowadays still research going on to enable endusers to operate their installations safely. The phenomena of SSC (stress cor