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Velocity Limit for raw seawater in 6 Mo Stainless Steel

Thread starter PDEBoss
Start date Feb 21, 2003

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Feb 21, 2003

PDEBoss

Petroleum

Does anybody know of a reference for the maximum velocity limit of raw seawater in 6 Mo SS to ANSI B36.19? The material is ASTM A312 UNS S31254.

All the generalised SS specs seem to recommend 7 m/s but this seems to be more for pipe stressing than corrosion/erosion.