Ultrasonic transmission in-situ detection method for creep cracks on inner wall of hydrogen production furnace pipe
Technical Field
The invention relates to an ultrasonic transmission in-situ detection method for creep cracks on the inner wall of a hydrogen production furnace pipe, and belongs to the field of nondestructive detection.
Background
Hydrogen energy has received increasing attention as a clean renewable energy source. With the large-scale application of the hydrogen production furnace in petrochemical oil refining enterprises, the operation states of the hydrogen production furnace tube and parts thereof are directly related to the production safety and benefits of national enterprises. A plurality of pipelines work in the hydrogen production furnace side by side, the furnace tube is a main pressure-bearing part, and the condition of generating cracks due to long-time high-temperature and high-pressure environment and hydrogen oxide corrosion is inevitable. Thus, the safety detection of the structure not only helps to prevent the occurrence of safety accidents, but also can replace the problem pipeline in time to avoid unnecessary economic loss.
The hydrogen production furnace tubes are fixed between two heating furnaces in a whole row and are in a high-temperature and high-pressure production state all the year round, the whole furnace needs to be stopped for 1-2 days in each detection, the enterprise benefit is greatly influenced, the starting and stopping of the heating furnaces seriously influence the growth of cracks of the pipelines, so that how to comprehensively detect the pipelines in the furnace in a short time is a main problem at present, a detector can only climb a scaffold in the furnace stopping state, the fire facing surface and the fire backing surface of the furnace tube are detected in a stepping mode by using a longitudinal wave probe or the pipeline is scanned twice by using a crawler, but the number of pipelines in the furnace is large, and the detection coverage area is small, the time and the labor are consumed, and the detection cost is very large by using the two modes in the stopping state. Therefore, the in-situ detection of the furnace tube, particularly the HP40 pipeline which is centrifugally cast, cannot be well implemented so far, and in order to ensure the safe use of the hydrogen production furnace and ensure the national production safety, the potential safety hazard is minimized, and a defect detection method which does not need personnel to approach the furnace tube for manual detection and has wide coverage is very necessary and urgent to research.
The hydrogen production furnace tube is mainly made of nickel, chromium and other metal elements through centrifugal casting, has larger grain size compared with common tubes on the market, has larger attenuation on the transmission of various energies, and is designed to be a thick-wall pipeline in order to ensure that the workpieces can be in a working state all the year round. For the detection thereof, the ultrasonic transmission method is undoubtedly the most suitable and most effective detection method. Compared with other nondestructive detection methods, the ultrasonic nondestructive detection technology has comprehensive advantages in determining the size, position, orientation, burial depth, property and other parameters of the internal defect, and mainly comprises the following steps: strong penetration ability, high signal integrity and no harm to human body, workpieces and surrounding environment.
The petrochemical facility pipe detection is relatively researched at home and abroad, but the research on hydrogen production furnace pipes is less, the failed pipeline is generally disassembled and then failure analysis is carried out, a pipe climbing robot is applied to scan the fire facing surface and the fire backing surface of the pipeline under the condition of no pipeline movement, and the detection method is nearly mature. Although the method is reasonable and feasible in design, the method cannot be directly and widely applied to in-situ detection of the hydrogen production furnace tube, and the main reasons are as follows: although creep cracks are mostly generated on the back fire surface due to the influence of temperature difference, the creep failure caused by cracks generated at the back fire surface is found to be more probable at the back fire surface boundary through the actual failure analysis result, and the creep failure is just the loophole of the current detection method. And the length of a single furnace tube is about 12m, the traditional detection method has low efficiency, and the method can be widely applied.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention provides a furnace tube creep circumferential detection method based on ultrasonic transmission longitudinal waves, which adopts a longitudinal wave piezoelectric transducer to realize furnace tube inner wall creep crack detection through electronic scanning, avoids the complicated process of manual scanning in the conventional detection process, and is more favorable for realizing the circumferential detection of the furnace tube inner wall creep crack compared with other methods of furnace tube in-situ detection.
In order to achieve the purpose, the technical scheme adopted by the invention is an ultrasonic transmission in-situ detection method for creep cracks on the inner wall of a hydrogen production furnace pipe, and a detection device for achieving the detection method comprises a computer 1, ultrasonic excitation receiving equipment 2, a micro water supply pump 3, a rotating motor 4, a detection ring 5, an excitation receiving transducer 6 and a furnace pipe 7. Wherein, computer 1 passes through wireless module with supersound excitation receiving equipment 2 and is connected, and supersound excitation receiving equipment 2 is connected with rotating electrical machines 4, and miniature water supply pump 3 links to each other with detecting ring 5, and rotating electrical machines 4 passes through gear structure with detecting ring 5 and is connected, and this method concrete implementation step includes:
step one, determining the diameter D and the wall thickness T of a furnace tube to be detected, determining the distance T between an acoustic wave path in the tube and the inner wall of the tube according to the material of the hydrogen production furnace tube and the size Q of the defect to be detected, and enabling the refraction angle in the tube to pass through
Calculating, according to the snell law, the incident angle of the sound wave passes through
Calculating, wherein: c
L1Is the wave velocity of the coupling agent, C
L2The longitudinal wave velocity of the hydrogen production furnace tube material;
step two, selecting a piezoelectric transducer with moderate central frequency F, diameter d and focusing distance F according to an ultrasonic detection principle, adjusting the clamping angle of the transducer of the sensing ring according to the incident angle alpha of the sound wave obtained by calculation in the step one and the propagation path of the sound wave in the tube, so that the transducer meets the incident and receiving conditions obtained by calculation in the step one and is fixed, and setting the other two groups of detection structures in the same way;
thirdly, fixing three groups of transducers according to the method in the second step, wherein the zero time position is a detection group with the number 1, the detection groups are numbered clockwise according to the numbers 2 and 3, leading-out wires of each piezoelectric transducer in the detection ring are respectively connected to channel interfaces corresponding to the ultrasonic excitation receiving equipment, and the position setting and the electrical crosslinking of the piezoelectric transducers are completed;
step four, turning on a water pump to adjust flow, turning on ultrasonic excitation receiving equipment after judging that a coupling condition is reached, detecting the wireless communication state of the computer and the equipment, sending a detection instruction through the computer to control the ultrasonic excitation receiving equipment to enable three channels to excite the piezoelectric transducer at the same time, collecting three groups of echoes to confirm whether the waveform is normal, and repeating the first step and the second step to finely adjust the position of the transducer if the waveform has a problem;
step five, sending an instruction again to test the running states of the pipe climbing motor and the rotating motor after the sensor ring runs correctly, adjusting the pipe climbing machine to the bottom end of the pipeline to be tested after all links of the system are confirmed, and sending an instruction by the computer to start the automatic detection of the whole pipe;
scanning the machine from bottom to top, continuously sending detection data to a computer through a wireless module for imaging and processing, stopping running until a pipe climbing motor at the top end of the pipeline stops running, driving a detection ring to rotate by a certain angle through a rotating motor, running the pipe climbing motor again, and running a detection system from top to bottom;
and seventhly, after the pipe climbing machine runs to the bottom end of the pipeline, the ultrasonic excitation receiving equipment completes transmission of detection data, and data arrangement is performed on uplink and downlink echo signals of each numbered detection group on the computer to complete the hydrogen production furnace pipe detection. The data arrangement mode arranges the waveforms in sequence according to the scanning sequence from bottom to top of the system, so that three-channel downlink data of the system need to be exchanged end to end after scanning is finished, and uniform arrangement and processing of the whole-pipe circumferential scanning data are realized.
And step eight, determining the corresponding position and the appearance height of the group number of the defect position according to the detection group number and the peak value reduction value of the piezoelectric transducer with the problematic echo.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects.
1. The method utilizes the ultrasonic waves radiated by the three groups of piezoelectric transducers to realize the detection of the creep cracks of the inner wall of the furnace tube in the circumferential direction of the hydrogen production furnace tube, does not need to manually adjust the position of the detection ring in the detection process, realizes the in-situ detection of the circumferential full coverage of the inner wall of the furnace tube, and has obvious advantages in the aspects of implementation convenience and detection efficiency.
2. According to the invention, a manual scanning mode is replaced by an electronic scanning mode of the pipe climbing machine, so that a tester does not need to climb a scaffold to perform manual stepping scanning detection operation aiming at a problem area; aiming at the quality detection of the components, in particular to the long pipe and the project which needs large work load of circumferential detection of the whole pipe, the invention provides a new idea for solving the technical problem.
Drawings
FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an ultrasonic transmission in-situ detection system for creep cracks on the inner wall of a hydrogen production furnace tube, which is used in the invention;
FIG. 2 is a structural dimension of a furnace tube and a single set of transducer detection areas in an embodiment of the invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of the positional arrangement of three sets of piezoelectric transducers in the detection ring of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a schematic view of a rotating electric machine drive detection ring of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of the location and coverage area of upstream and downstream probes in an embodiment of the invention;
Detailed Description
The invention is described in detail below with reference to the drawings and the detailed description.
For the hydrogen production furnace tube, the quality detection is very critical when the safety production operation can be carried out in the service life approaching or even exceeding the design service life. Practice proves that the hydrogen production furnace tube is influenced by environment and corrosive gas in the long-term use process, creep cracks growing from the inner wall to the outer wall are easily generated on the tube wall of the hydrogen production furnace tube, and the service life and the production safety of the furnace tube are directly influenced by the cracks.
The hydrogen production furnace tube adopted in the embodiment is the furnace tube 7 to be tested in fig. 1, the material of the furnace tube is 45Ni35cr25nb, and the ultrasonic longitudinal wave sound velocity of the material is 5917 m/s. The structural size and the detection area are shown in fig. 2, and the detection surface is an area close to the inner wall of the pipe.
The detection system adopted by the embodiment comprises a computer, ultrasonic excitation receiving equipment, a miniature water pump and a pipe climbing machine comprising a detection ring, and the detection system comprises the following specific implementation steps:
step one, in this embodiment, the material of the hydrogen production furnace tube 7 is 45Ni35cr25nb, the diameter D is 138mm, the wall thickness is 14.5mm, and a creep defect with Q less than or equal to 4mm needs to be detected, then the distance t between the path of the sound wave in the tube and the inner wall of the tube is determined to be 7.25mm, and the sound wave refraction angle β is 63.49 ° (63.5 °), α is 12.93 ° (12.9 °), wherein the wave velocity of the coupling agent is 1480m/s, and the wave velocity of the longitudinal wave of the furnace tube is 5917m/s are obtained through calculation;
step two, selecting a piezoelectric transducer with the center frequency of 1MHz and the diameter of phi 20mm according to the general principle of ultrasonic detection by combining the attenuation capacity of the material to sound waves, selecting a line focusing probe with the focusing distance F of 25mm for excitation in order to ensure the concentration of sound beams, receiving by a flat probe with the same parameters, determining the positions of the two probes and manufacturing a special clamp for fixation according to the incidence angle alpha obtained by calculation in the step one and the propagation path of the sound waves in the tube by combining the focusing distances of the probes, and setting the rest two groups of detection structures in the same way as shown in figure 3;
adjusting the position of the whole detection ring after the probe is fixed, adjusting a channel to a detection group which is just opposite to the fire surface on one side of the furnace tube and is numbered as 1, numbering the other detection groups 2 and 3 clockwise, and respectively connecting the leading-out wire of each piezoelectric transducer in the detection ring to a channel interface corresponding to the ultrasonic excitation receiving equipment to complete the position setting and the electrical crosslinking of the piezoelectric transducers;
step four, turning on a water pump to adjust flow, turning on ultrasonic excitation receiving equipment after judging that a coupling condition is reached, detecting the wireless communication state of the computer and the equipment, sending a detection instruction through the computer to control the ultrasonic excitation receiving equipment to enable three channels to excite the piezoelectric transducer at the same time, collecting three groups of echoes to confirm whether the waveform is normal, and repeating the first step and the second step to finely adjust the position of the transducer if the waveform has a problem;
step five, after the sensor ring operates correctly, sending an instruction again to test the ascending and descending distances of the pipe climbing motor by 1m, rotating the motor to operate at 60 degrees clockwise and anticlockwise, adjusting the pipe climbing machine to the bottom end of the pipeline to be tested after each link of the system is confirmed, and sending an instruction by the computer to start the automatic detection of the whole pipe;
scanning the machine from bottom to top, continuously sending detection data to a computer through a wireless module for imaging and processing, stopping running until a pipe climbing motor at the top end of the pipeline stops running, driving a detection ring to rotate clockwise by 60 degrees through a rotating motor, running the pipe climbing motor again as shown in figure 4, and running the detection system from top to bottom;
and seventhly, after the pipe climbing machine runs to the bottom end of the pipeline, the ultrasonic excitation receiving equipment completes transmission of detection data, and data arrangement is performed on uplink and downlink echo signals of each numbered detection group on the computer to complete the hydrogen production furnace pipe detection. The data arrangement mode arranges the waveforms in sequence according to the scanning sequence from bottom to top of the system, so that the first exchange of the downlink data of the first, second and third channels is realized after the scanning is finished, the uniform arrangement and processing of the circumferential scanning data of the whole pipe are realized, and the positions of the uplink and downlink transducers of each channel and the area covering the pipe in the whole detection process are shown in fig. 5.
And step eight, determining the corresponding position and the appearance height of the group number of the defect position according to the detection group number and the peak value reduction value of the piezoelectric transducer with the problematic echo.