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EXAMPLES OF REPAIRS AND ALTERATIONS

INTRODUCTION
The following examples are intended to provide owners, users, repair
organizations and Inspectors the assistance in evaluating whether
contemplated work on a pressure retaining item should be categorized as a
repair or alteration.

EXAMPLES OF REPAIRS
Examples of repairs are.
1. Weld repairs or replacement of pressure parts or attachments that
have failed in a weld or in the base material:
2. Corrosion resistance strip lining or weld overlay:
3. Weld buildup of wasted areas;
4. The addition of welded attachments to pressure parts, such as;
a. studs for insulation or refractory lining
b. ladder clips
c. brackets, having loading which do not affect the design of the
pressure retaining item to which they are attached
d. tray support rings
5. Replacement of heat exchanger tube sheets in accordance with the
original design:
6. Replacement of boiler and heat exchanger tubes where welding is
involved.
7. The installation of a flush patch to a pressure retaining item.

8. Replacement of pressure

parts identical to those existing on the

pressure retaining item , such as,


a. Replacement of a shell or head in accordance with the
original design.
b. Re-welding a circumferential or longitudinal seam in a shell
or head
c. Replacement of nozzles of a size where reinforcement is not
a consideration
9. Installation of new nozzles or openings of such a size that
reinforcement is not a consideration. For example the installation of
a 3 NPS nozzle to a shell or head of 3/8 in. or less in thickness or
the addition of a 2 NPS nozzle to a shell of head of any thickness.
10.

The

addition

of

nozzle

where

reinforcement

consideration may be considered to be a repair if

is

the nozzle is

identical to one in the original design, located in a similar part of


the vessel,
11.

The replacement of a shell course in a cylindrical pressure

vessel.
12.

Welding of wasted or distorted flange faces.

13.

Replacement of slip-on flanges with weld neck flanges or

vice-versa.
14.

Seal welding of butt straps and rivets;

15.

The repair or replacement of a pressure part with a Code

accepted material that has a normal composition and strength that


is equivalent to the original material.
16.

Replacement of a pressure retaining part with material of different


nominal composition, equal to or greater in allowable stress from that used
in the original design, provided the replacement material satisfies the

material and design requirements of the original code of construction under


which the vessel was built.

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