Re: [Fwd: Ground flush requirement for piping welds.]

From: <Narendra>
Date: Sun Oct 31 2004 - 00:52:00 EDT

Parag
Do not loose heart on a grand reception you got on your entry to this yahoo group by the seniors. Treat it as if you are new and ragging is the right of the well wishers to provide you the needed orientation. As a mechanical engineer and QA manager I had to come out with recommendations as sought by you. I recommend and favor that it may not be at all possible to ground flush the welds which are at internal, root ones for piping systems. The TIG ( better known as GTAW)weld is the best proposition with controlled deposition that have smooth deposit exposed to flow side.
The face side weld may also be left as welded. Only criteria shall be smoothness. If you find that the there are ripples, too visible on the radiographs, then you may recommend grinding them flush. But this is taken as the last resort. I hope you do not have any vigorous stress corrosion cracking environment inside or outside.
Best wishes and keep expressing, do not get muffled. Cheers and good luck on joining the group, so professional and educative. Do not hesitate to contact me as necessary, may be my 35 years with process industry, consulting background may be of some help to you.
NK Roy

• mapte@technip.com wrote:

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> Parag,
> All the welds should be ground flush.
> I think you are talking about the pre-poly reactor
> lines.
> In such type of piping, there should be sufficient
> flanged joints and the
> FW or FFW should be on the neck of the flange so
> that it becomes
> accessible. There should be no elbows in such lines,
> the line is to be bent
> to 5D radius in order to reduce the number of welds.
> Since this is a very specialized type of piping,
> contractor needs to be
> educated.
> If necessary a site revision of the isos can be done
> to revise the note as
> required.
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> Have a nice day.
> -Mandar.
> This message comes from Mandar's desk.
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Ground flush requirement for piping welds.
> Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 09:53:50 +0200
> From: Kulkarni Parag <KulkarniP@plock.tecnimont.net>
> To: <pbowers@pipingdesign.com>
> CC: <PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com>
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> Dear Paul,
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> I have joined the group recently and this is my
> first query. Im at
> Poland site right now for one of our projects. The
> query is we have a
> note for certain process lines on the PID and we put
> the same note on
> ths isos but in a different manner....
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> The note we put on iso was: "for internal weldings
> ASME B31.3 to be
> applied if welding can be inspected and welds to be
> ground flush,
> otherwise is mandatory the use of tig technology"
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> I think the note should have been:
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> 1) welds to be ground flush (this is the main
> requirement)
> and
> 2) for internal weldings ASME B31.3 to be
> applied if welding can
> be inspected otheriswe is mandatory the use of tig
> technology.
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> Now the debate at site is if the welds are
> unaccessible position in case
> of field welds, then inspection is not possible and
> if tig technology is
> alternatively used then ground flush reqt to be
> waved off. The quality
> people from the contractoprs side are saying that we
> will provide tig
> technology for all welds and that's all.
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> We have to give a decision.
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> Please reply .
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> Regards,
> parag
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