Objective AIM: To eliminate the need to conduct costly Post Weld Heat Treatment (PWHT) to enable cost effective fabrication and repair of steel components in applications where it can be proven that this is not needed. The PROBLEM: PWHT in fabrication, often a very difficult and high cost operation, affecting productivity and not justified for recently developed steels. Repair welds are often non-code compliant and require long validation and justification work resulting in lost production time. BENEFITS: Eliminating intermediate PWHT in fabrication would translate directly into cost savings and competitiveness. A validated repair procedure would reduce repair costs and plant down-time. If repairs could be implemented in codes of practice in the same way that small surface defects can be removed by grinding, millions of euros could be saved each year in industry. Fields of science social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivity Programme(s) FP5-GROWTH - Programme for research technological development and demonstration on "Competitive and sustainable growth 1998-2002" Topic(s) 1.1.3.-1. - Key Action Innovative Products, Processes and Organisation Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator MITSUI BABCOCK ENERGY LTD* EU contribution No data Address Porterfield Road PA4 8DJ RENFREW United Kingdom See on map Total cost No data Participants (9) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all BELLELI ENERGY SRL Italy EU contribution No data Address Via G. Taliercio 3 46100 MANTOVA See on map Total cost No data CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS E INVESTIGACIONES TECNICAS DE GUIPUZKOA Spain EU contribution No data Address 15,Paseo de Manuel de Lardizabal 15 20009 SAN SEBASTIAN See on map Total cost No data ETC ELETTROTERMOCHIMICA SRL Italy EU contribution No data Address Via Vo'Di Placca 56 35020 ALBIGNASEGO See on map Total cost No data FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.* Germany EU contribution No data Address Woehlerstrasse 11 79108 FREIBURG (IN BREISGAU) See on map Total cost No data INDUSTEEL FRANCE SA France EU contribution No data Address Rue Clémenceau 56 71200 LE CREUS0T See on map Total cost No data INSTITUT DE SOUDURE France EU contribution No data Address Zone Industrielle Les Jonquières 57365 ENNERY See on map Total cost No data IZAR CONSTRUCCIONES NAVALES S.A. Spain EU contribution No data Address Velazques, 132 28006 MADRID See on map Total cost No data NDE TECHNOLOGY LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Torrington Place WC1E 7JE LONDON See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address University Walk BS8 1TR BRISTOL, CLIFTON See on map Total cost No data
