Research on Test about Stress Corrosion Cracking of SPV50Q Spherical Tank

Abstract:

SPV50Q steel belongs to high-alloyed steel that is widely used to fabricate storage tank for liquefied petroleum gas. However, it has a great tendency to the problem of environmental cracking under the service condition of LPG containing wet sulfide hydrogen surpassing the lowest allowance for steels. In order to quantitatively evaluate the cracking susceptibility on this steel in the wet H2S environment, the pre-fatigue crack M-WOL specimen stress corrosion cracking tests in three H2S concentrations were performed under the different welding conditions, and in safety performance analysis of equipment, and preventing countermeasure had been proposed. The method could be extended forecasting accident in LPG SCC.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 284-286)
• Pages: 2437-2441
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.284-286.2437
• Online since: July 2011
• Authors: Fan Yu Kong
• Keywords: Heat Treatment, Stress Corrosion Cracking (SCC), Welding, Wet H2S

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