The role of the AWS CWI in a major power plant outage

Journal Article · Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1989 · Welding Journal (Miami); (USA)

OSTI ID:5325646

Walsh, T W ^[1]

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1. Combustion Engineering, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA (US)

In March of 1988, an eight-week outage began at the Keystone Electric Generating Station, 35 miles northwest of Johnstown, Pa. This outage encompassed the complete replacement of the reheat section of a 1,7000,000 kW boiler unit, as well as major repairs to the boiler itself. The author discusses how AWS (Certified Welding Inspectors) (CWl's) played a major part in the successful completion of over 7600 ASME butt joint welds during the outage. The welding on these outages is performed in strict accordance with the Pennsylvania Electric Company Quanity Assurance Specification and the applicable codes (ASME, NBIC, ANSI and AWS).

• OSTI ID: 5325646
• Journal Information: Welding Journal (Miami); (USA), Vol. 68:4; ISSN 0043-2296
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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