J Viswanath 08/06/2013

Technical Delivery Condition Heat Treatment Procedure for C12A Castings 1.0 Scope: This procedure covers the heat treatment requirements including PWHT for ASTM A217 Gr. C12A castings. 2.0 Components: Body, Bonnet, Cover, Disc, and all other casting 3.0 HT Furnace requirements: S No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Equipment Heat Treatment Furnace Thermocouple Furnace calibration Frequency of calibration Loading Temperature Rate of heating Rate of Cooling Requirement Electrical bogie hearth furnace K type As per API 6A or ASTM A991 Furnace 1 year Thermocouple, Temperature controller and Recorders - 3 months 400C max. 100C per hour maximum. 70C per hour maximum
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3.1 Minimum 2 thermocouples shall be attached to the furnace (one at the top and other at the rear side of the furnace). 3.2 One metal attached thermocouple shall be deployed in each of the furnace heat zones on the castings for the entire heat treatment cycle and the data from this thermocouple shall be recoded in HT Chart. 4.0 Heat treatment details: 4.1 Heat treatment shall be performed after castings have been allowed to cool below the transformation range. To achieve the mechanical properties, following quality heat treatment has proven to be advantageous.

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J Viswanath 08/06/2013
Technical Delivery Condition Heat Treatment Procedure for C12A Castings S No. 1 Heat Treatment Normalizing* Soaking Temp 1040C 1080C Soaking Time 1 hour per inch thickness (minimum 2 hour)
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Cooling Media Air Cool

*To ensure a martensite transformation of the whole cross-section (See also clause 5.5) 2 3 Tempering Stress Reliving (PWHT) 760C 780C 730C - 755C 1 hour per inch thickness (minimum 2 hour) 1 hour per inch thickness (minimum 2 hours) Air Cool Furnace Cool

4.2 More than 2 times PWHT not permitted. 5.0 Placement of castings inside the furnace 5.1 Castings shall be placed on the grid which is placed on the furnace bed without touching other castings as well as side walls of the furnace. 5.2 The castings shall be placed as an array and the minimum distance between the castings shall be 4 inches. 5.3 The gap between the door edge and furnace wall after closing the door shall be minimized to reduce the heat loss as well as oxidation. 5.4 All the heat treatment shall be completed in a single stretch. The time gap between normalising and tempering shall be minimized as such as possible. 5.5 Castings shall be allowed to cool below 100C (approximately) after normalising before subsequent heat treatment cycles to ensure complete transformation of Martensitic structure. 5.6 When the castings needs to be air cooled, they shall be unloaded from furnace without time delay. 6.0 Records The following reports shall be forwarded to L&T along with casting during despatch 6.1 Heat treatment log (shall contain the all details of above mentioned HT details, component description, date, shift, loading & unloading time and temperature details) 6.2 Normalising and Tempering Heat Treatment Chart.
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