PRESSURE TESTING FEEDWATER HEATERS AND POWER PLANT AUXILIARY HEAT EXCHANGERS

摘要

This paper discusses factory and field pressure testing of tubular heat transfer equipment such as closed feedwater heaters, steam surface condensers and power plant auxiliary heat exchangers built to Section VIII Division 1 of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (the ASME Code) and repaired or altered in accordance with the National Board Inspection Code (NBIC).~(1.2 )It discusses the ASME Code's and the NBIC's requirements for hydrostatically testing unfired pressure vessels which includes tubular heat transfer equipment.