Welding of the high Grade Pipeline-Steel X80 and Description of Different Pipeline-Projects

2008 ◽  
Vol 52 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 19-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Felber
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2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Li Yan–hua ◽  
Feng Hui ◽  
Chi Qiang ◽  
Fei Fan ◽  
Gao Xiong-xiong ◽  
...  

In recent years, many synthetic natural gas demonstration projects have been put into operation all over the world, and hydrogen is usually contained in synthetic natural gas. X80 is the most commonly used high-grade pipeline steel in the construction of natural gas pipelines. The compatibility between high-grade pipeline steel and hydrogen directly affects safety and reliability of long-distance pipelines. Therefore, in order to study the effect of hydrogen content on fatigue properties of high-grade pipeline steel, fatigue specimens were taken from base metal, spiral welds, and girth weld of submerged arc spiral welded pipes, respectively. Specifically, the total pressure was 12 MPa and hydrogen content was from 0 to 5vol%. Experimental results indicate that the hydrogen significantly increases the fatigue crack growth rate for both base metal, spiral weld, and heat-affected zone of X80 pipeline steel for about ten times compared with reference environment nitrogen, hydrogen would greatly reduce the fatigue life of the X80 pipeline steel, and the fatigue lifetime would decrease with the increase in hydrogen volume fraction. In order to ensure the safe operation of SNG pipeline, the hydrogen content should be controlled as low as possible.


Author(s):  
Ke Tong ◽  
Xiaodong Shao ◽  
Lixia Zhu ◽  
Qiang Liu ◽  
Jinfeng Li

The microstructure characteristic of martensite/austenite (M/A) islands of X80-1#, X80-2#, X100-3#, X100-4# steel pipelines come from different manufacturer were investigated by OM and SEM contrastively, and the influence of M/A islands microstructure characteristics of pipelines were studied combining with tests of mechanic properties. The result shows that the effect of the M/A islands volume fraction, average dimension, form and distribution on the material strength, yield ratio and toughness were distinct. When the M/A islands distribute uniformly with small size and spherical or crossed strip form, under the certain volume fraction, the pipeline steel exhibits excellent strength-toughness matching.


2010 ◽  
Vol 168-170 ◽  
pp. 1581-1585 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong Ying Xu ◽  
Hao Yu

Orientations distribution between grains of two high grade pipeline steels were investigated by electron back-scattered diffraction (EBSD). Then the percentage of low-angle grain boundaries was studied qualitatively to analyze the effect of low-angle grain boundaries on the yield-strength ratio of high grade pipeline steels. From the mode of coordinate deformation and the ability to resist deformation by the grain boundaries, the results show that when the effective grain size are almost the same, the pipeline steel which has the smaller percentage of low-angle grain boundaries, the larger difference between the yield strength and tensile strength, which makes the yield-strength ratio of pipeline steel lower.


2012 ◽  
Vol 455-456 ◽  
pp. 830-833
Author(s):  
Yang Qin Liu ◽  
Xiao Dong Shao ◽  
Lu Lu Qu
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Author(s):  
Xiaoli Zhang ◽  
Chuanjing Zhuang ◽  
Lingkang Ji ◽  
Yaorong Feng ◽  
Wenzhen Zhao ◽  
...  

The microstructure of high grade pipeline steels, including X65, X70, X80, X100, were studied by SEM and EBSD, respectively. It was found that the microstructures of high grade pipeline steels were composed of lower bainite, granular bainite and acicular ferrite. The phases of kinds of pipeline steels were composed of Fe3C, retained austenite and ferrite. And their percentage content, grain size and its distribution were studied respectively also. These micro structural parameters were correlated to the mechanical properties of kinds of pipeline steels. Furthermore, all kinds of angles of grain boundaries were studied, and the relationship between the angles of grain boundaries and mechanical properties was obtained. It was shown that as the improving of the steel grade, the grain boundary including small angle and large angle increased. And only when grain boundary was greater than 15 degree, it was effective to the toughness behavior.


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