Tag: pipes
Experience from the field…
Since 1998 leaks have repeatedly been detected in 304L stainless steel bellows in a ‘contaminated’ process steam system at one of the chemical plants on the Chemelot Site. Investigations revealed that while the outside of the bellows were corrosion-free the inside exhibited severe corrosion. The challenge: to determine whether the corrosion was due to design of the bellow or the operating conditions.
Back in time: The history of tubes
If you put a search for tube or pipe into the web there is a an avalanche of information which makes you start to realise how dependant our way of life is on something with a hole in it that carries any sort of medium.
TMK supplies pipes for Lukoil’s North Caspian depo
TMK has started shipping pipes to be used in construction of deep water pipelines at Lukoil’s Filanovsky oil and gas condensate deposit in the North Caspian Sea.
KSSC to build new facilities
K SENG Seng Corporation (KSSC) will build new facilities to process and sell a new line of stainless steel tubes and pipes for the Southeast Asian market, particularly the Philippine's automotive industry.
Russia cuts import duty on stainless
The Russian government has decreased the special duty on imports of stainless steel tubes and pipes. Tubes and pipe with an outside diameter of up to 426mm inclusive have decreased from 28.1% to 9.9%, but not less than USD 1500/mt.
BUTTING parts for nuclear reactor
BUTTING will be playing a part in the construction of Wendelstein 7-X, the world’s largest experiment in nuclear fusion of the stellarator type, currently being constructed at the Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald, Germany and should be completed by 2014.