Raw Materials
LFBGroup provides a wide range of materials for our products, including plain carbon steel and low-temperature grades as well as high-yield grades, low and high alloys, nickel alloys, stainless steel, Chrome-Moly, and clad materials.
LFBGroup has established internal material specifications that go beyond industry and customer standards to meet the diverse requirements of our customers.
Chrome-Moly
Grade: 5 / 9 / 11 / 22 / 91
Applications:
- Steam, Boiler and heat exchanger
- Gas and steam turbines
- Superheated applications
- Heat recovery steam generations (HRSG)
- Crude oil, sour crude and oil sand applications
- Header systems and reheat piping
- Power plant piping systems
Stainless Steel
Grade: 304L / 316L / 317L / 321 / 347
Applications:
- Heat exchangers, feedwater heaters, condensers, and evaporators
- Used for exhaust manifolds, expansion joints, high temperature chemical process heat exchanger tubes, and recuperator tubes
- Corrosion resistance to sour crude
- Good strength and toughness at cryogenic temperatures
High Yield Steel
Grade: From X52 to X100
Applications:
- Sour gas resistance pipeline applications
- High pressure pipeline onshore & offshore applications
- Subsea service
- Gas pipeline transmission
Nickel Alloy
Grade: 625 / 825
Applications:
- Oil and gas production where hydrogen sulfide and elementary sulfur exist at temperature in excess of 302 F (150 C)
- Components where exposure to sea water and high mechanical stresses are required
- Components exposed to flue gas or in flue gas desulphurization plant
- Refining components exposed to SCC plus hydrogen sulfide attack
- Hydrocarbon processing from tar-sand and oil shale recovery projects
- Flare stacks on offshore oil platforms
Clad
Grade: Stainless steel / Duplex / Ni Alloy / Hastelloy / Copper Nickel / Titanium
Base Metals: Carbon steel / Chromium-Molybdenum
Applications:
- Very economical way to provide excellent corrosion resistance for steel structures without jeopardizing design thickness
- Providing a long-life and high reliability corrosion resistance to harsh environment applications
Carbon Steel
Grade: A671 / A672
Applications:
- Welded pressure vessels for the storage of cryogens
- Process piping applications
- Storage for natural gas
- High pressure applications
- Power plant piping
- Flares stacks
- FEED for heaters
- Hydrocracking
- Refineries
- LNG terminals
- Heat exchangers
Duplex / Super Duplex
Grade: 31803 / 32205 (Duplex)
Grade: 32750 (Super Duplex)
Applications:
- Power industry FGD systems, utility and
- Industrial scrubber systems, absorber towers, ducting and piping
- Pressure vessels, tanks, piping, and heat exchangers in the chemical processing industry
- Piping, tubing, and heat exchangers for the handling of gas and oil
- Oil and gas industry equipments
- Chemical process industries
- Effluent scrubbing systems
- Desalination plants
