Life assessment of high temperature header piping and tube

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Project - Life assessment of high temperature header piping and tube system

The project aims for a life assessment of a high temperature steam header piping and tube system at a power generation plant. The client has requested a life assessment to be performed on one of their superheater header, as shown in Figure 2.1, which is a central manifold for other piping runs that is used to convert saturated or wet steam into superheated or dry steam.

The plant is considering to change its operation mode to a two-shifting mode. where the plant will be shut down over the weekend (Friday night at 8pm) and restarts the operation back on Monday at 8am. The header has experienced some 82000 hours operation already.

Using pressure vessel design codes such as the EN12952 or ASME 831.1, estimate the remaining fatigue and creep life of a header with a stub configuration, as shown in Figure 2.2 if the two-shifting mode is to be run. They would also like to understand the geometrical effects of a row of tubes/stubs on the stress in the header and to estimate the fatigue and creep life of the header. These effects are taken into account through the parameter VL called ligament efficiency. The main dimensions of the component and operating conditions are reported in Table 1.

The owner of the plant welcomes recommendations with respect to header maintenance following the proposed change in operation as well as improvements in the design, optimisation of materials and manufacturing of the steam header piping and tubing.

Fig. 2.1. (a) A superheater header being manufactured (b) the geometry of the header with tubes.

Table 1: Nominal dimensions & Operating conditions

Material	Header	2^1/4CrMo (P22)
Material	Tube	2^1/4CrMo (P22)
Geometry	Header outer diameter D., mm	390
	Header thickness, t, mm	56
	Tube stub outer diameter d., mm	57
	Tube thickness 1., mm	9
	Pitch between tube holes L1, mm	336
	Pitch between tube holes L2, mm	400
Operating condition	Pressure P, MPa	14
	Temperature T, °C	565
	Total in-service time, hrs	82000

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