Tube expansion method
AssigneeMitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
InventorsYoichi Ishigami, Takashi Kanabushi, Takashi Kagawa, Hirokazu Kadowaki
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Abstract
A tube expansion method of fixing a heat exchanger tube inserted to a tube hole of a tubesheet by tube expansion including: when there is a groove along a circumferential direction with respect to an inner circumferential surface in the middle axis of an axis direction of the tube hole, a first hydraulic tube expansion step of performing hydraulic tube expansion at a pressure of 15% and 70% in a range including the groove, and thereafter, a second hydraulic tube expansion step of performing each liquid tube expansion at a pressure of 100% in each range divided except the groove.
Claims2
A tube expansion method of fixing a heat exchanger tube inserted to a tube hole of a tubesheet by tube expansion, the method comprising:
- when there is a damage along a circumferential direction with respect to an inner circumferential surface in the middle of an axial direction of the tube hole,
- a first hydraulic tube expansion step of performing a hydraulic tube expansion in a range including the damage at a pressure of 15% to 70%;
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- a second hydraulic tube expansion step of performing the hydraulic tube expansion in each range divided except the damage at a pressure of 100%.
A tube expansion method of fixing a heat exchanger tube inserted to a tube hole of a tubesheet by tube expansion, the method comprising:
- when there is a damage along a circumferential direction with respect to an inner circumferential surface in the middle of an axial direction of the tube hole,
- a first roller tube expansion step of performing a roller tube expansion in a range A of a predetermined distance that does not reach the damage toward an end surface of the other side from an end surface of one side of the tubesheet in which the end portion of the heat exchanger tube is located;
- a first hydraulic tube expansion step of performing a hydraulic tube expansion at a pressure of 15% to 70% in a range B including the damage as a range that is except the range of A and a predetermined distance toward the end surface of one side from the end surface of the other side of the tubesheet;
- a second hydraulic tube expansion step of performing each hydraulic tube expansion at a pressure of 100% in each range C divided from the range B except the damage;
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- a second roller tube expansion step of performing the roller tube expansion in a range D that is not expanded yet between the range A and the range B.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.