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Marine Grade Stainless Steel

Marine Grade Stainless Steel

Marine Grade Stainless Steel

(OP)
Besides 316 SS, are there any other stainless grades especially suitable for service in a salt water environment and in pressure applications, i.e. pressure piping, and vessels in off shore facilities?

RE: Marine Grade Stainless Steel

Look at the whole range of duplex stainless steels,.

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RE: Marine Grade Stainless Steel

For some low temperature, low load, and crevice free application 316 may be suitable.  At least in cases where failure is not a big deal.

The reason that the 6% Mo super-austenitic alloys were developed is for long term resistance to crevice corrosion in seawater.

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RE: Marine Grade Stainless Steel

RE: Marine Grade Stainless Steel

I just noticed that the link I provided earlier for Sandvik is for the Sandvik Powdermet group, which is only one of their activities related to marine applications.  The following link has information on the traditional wrought stainless steel products that Sandvik offers for offshore/oil & gas applications:

http://www.smt.sandvik.com/oilgas

RE: Marine Grade Stainless Steel

(OP)
Thank-you everyone.

RE: Marine Grade Stainless Steel

Look up SAF2205 Duplex and SAF2507 Super duplex.  
Also try Ferrelium

RE: Marine Grade Stainless Steel

Zeron 100 is another superduplex stainless that is commonly used for offshore applications and seawater RO units.  Superduplex and 6-Mo superaustenitics do have higher strength than 316L so keep that in mind when designing pressure applications you might be able to reduce the wall thicknesses and save on the initial cost.

http://www.water-technology.net/downloads/whitepapers/pipes/file392/

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