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Contents

1. SCOPE

2. RELATED DOCUMENTS

3. PERSONNEL QUALIFICATION

4. PROCEDURE

4.1. General

4.2. Heat Treatment Instruction

4.3. Heat Treatment Equipment

4.4. Heat Treatment Performance

4.5. Heat Treatment Record

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1 SCOPE

In order to guarantee a quality-ensured manufacturing of high quality welding seams,

the necessary work, welding and heat treatment, has to be executed properly and
accurately according to the technical regulations here after.
2 RELATED DOCUMENTS
ASME Code Sect. I BPVC Rules for Construction of Power Boilers
ASME Code Sect. VIII Div.I BPVC Rules for Constructions ofn Pressure Vessels
ANSI ASME B31.1 ASME Code for Pressure Piping

Reference to relevant codes is the minimum procedures for heat treatment requirements
and is intended to be a guide for the personnel and customers.

3 PERSONNEL QUALIFICATION

The heat treatment personnel shall be instructed to perform the work according to
prescriptions and work instructions.

4 PROCEDURE

4.1 General

All heat treatment carried out shall be in accordance with the relevant code requirement
for given material and for the given service in which it shall be used.

The followings shall be maintained for heat treatment operations using:

The heating of a vessel, pipe or any fabricated component or any portion of same by
means of internal or external methods.

The heating of a vessel, pipe or fabricated component in furnace.

When no heating or cooling rates are given the maximum heating rate shall be
200ºC/hour and the maximum cooling rate shall be 250ºC/hour.

Protective coating shall be applied to all machined surfaces and threaded connections.

Vessels or boiler parts of different thicknesses may be post weld heat treated in the
same furnace charge according to the Post Weld Heat Treatment requirements for the
thickest vessel / boiler part in charge, if the relevant Code or technical specifications are
permitted.
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4.2 Heat Treatment Instruction

QCE shall prepare the Post Weld Heat Treatment Work Order (EXHIBIT 06.03) in
accordance with the design documents and code. Whenever test coupons are to be
prepared as per the code requirement, they shall be heat treated under the same
conditions as the main vessels. These instructions and specifications shall be reviewed
and signed by the QCM for their completeness and usage.

Post Weld Heat Treatment Work Order will specify heating and cooling rates, holding
temperatures and times, no and location of thermocouple and method of its attachment.

Prior to Heat Treatment, all old, grease, weld spatter, dirt and other foreign materials
shall be removed.

When parts of two different P-Numbers are joined by welding, the postweld heat
treatment shall be that specified for the material requiring the higher PWHT
temperature. When the nonpressure part is welded to a pressure part and PWHT is
required for either part, the maximum PWHT temperature shall not exceed the
maximum temperature acceptable for the pressure retaining part the requirements of a
specification permitted by the Code provided the conditions in Parag. 132 respectively.

4.3 Heat Treatment Equipment

Heat treatment equipment shall be provided with time-temperature recorders which will
be calibrated every twelve months. Thermocouples will be in contact with the heat
treated parts or with blocks attached to these parts. Thermocouples shall also be
calibrated before the operation or they shall have certificate of conformity.

4.4 Heat Treatment Performance

Vessel / Boiler or parts of vessel / boiler shall be heated as a whole at once in an

enclosed furnace after all fabrication completed, the subcontractor is responsible for
accomplishing the heat treatment in accordance with the applicable Post Weld Heat
Treatment Work Order.

The furnace shall be of such design as to prevent direct impingement of the flame on the
vessel / boiler.

Where more than one pressure vessel or pressure vessel / boiler parts are post weld heat
treated within the same charge, thermocouples shall be placed on vessels / boiler parts at
the bottom, center and top of the charge, or other zones of possible temperature
variation, so that the indicated temperature shall be the true temperature for all vessels
or parts in those zones.

When the vessel / boiler is required to be post weld heat treated and it is not practicable
to do this for the completed vessel / boiler as a whole at once any circumferential weld
joints not previously post weld treated may be thereafter locally treated by heating such
joints by any appropriate mean that will assure the required uniformity. The width of the
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heated band on each side of the greatest width of finished weld shall be not less than two
times the shell thickness.

4.5 Heat Treatment Record

A time-temperature chart shall be recorded for each heat treatment operation.

The subcontractor shall be controlled as defined in this procedure and in Section 9 of

OKA’s QCSM. The order shall be given with this procedure. This procedure shall be
performed by the quality department of the subscontractor. The subcontractor shall
indicate the description of heat treated parts, date of heat treatment and identification of
thermocouples on the time-temperature record.

The heat treatment records and charts shall be signed by the QCE, QA/ QCM that heat
treatment has been performed in accordance with the applicable instruction.

Dimensional check shall be performed before and after post weld heat treatment.