WinTech BA

Bright annealed, seamless and welded tubing and fittings for use in bulk gas, instrumentation, CDA and vacuum piping systems.

1.0 Scope
  1. This specification will establish criteria for bright annealed seamless and welded tubing and fittings for the use and installation in high purity systems.
  2. By referencing products produced under this specification, the user shall be assured that WinTech will supply piping components that will meet or exceed the specified tolerances and purity.
  3. This specification is applicable to tubing and fittings with the outside diameter sizes 1/16” and above.
2.0 Reference Documents

ASTM A213 (EAW)
Seamless ferritic and austenitic alloy-steel boiler, superheated, and heat exchanger tubes.

ASTM A249
Welded austenitic steel boiler, superheated, heat exchanger, and condenser tubes.

ASTM A262
Practices for determining susceptibility to intergranular attack in austenitic stainless steels.

ASTM A269
Seamless and welded austenitic stainless steel tubing for general purpose.

ASTM A450
General requirements for carbon, ferritic alloy, and austenitic alloy steel tubes.

ASTM A479
General requirements for carbon, ferritic alloy, and austenitic alloy steel bar.

ASME SA213 (EAW)
Seamless ferritic and austenitic alloy-steel boiler, superheated, and heat exchanger tubes.

ASME SA249
Welded austenitic steel boiler, superheated, heat exchanger, and condenser tubes.

ANSI/ASME B46.1
Specification for surface texture-surface roughness, waviness and lay.

ANSI/ASQC – Q9002
Quality systems–model for quality assurance in production, installation and servicing.

ANSI/ASQC – Q10011-1
Guidelines for auditing quality systems.

3.0 Material Requirements
  1. All seamless tubing shall be produced from type 316/L or 304/L, based on customer requirements. Tubing shall be manufactured and tested to ASTM A213/A269 and ASME SA213. Other alloys are available upon request.
  2. All welded tubing shall be produced from type 316/L or 304/L. Tubing shall be manufactured and tested to ASTM A249/A269 and ASME SA249.
  3. Tubing and fittings shall be seamless or welded as specified by the customer.
  4. Tubing and fittings shall be marked by an approved method per ASTM A1016 specification. The mark can contain; manufacturer’s identification, the size and wall thickness, the alloy, and the heat number. Finished products shall be mill and heat traceable to the original mill test report.
  5. All bar stock shall conform to the requirements of ASTM A479.
  6. Sulfur controlled material is available upon request.
4.0 Surface Finish
  1. The ID and OD of the tubing and fittings shall be bright annealed.
5.0 Cleaning and Packaging
  1. WinTech does not use mercury or ozone depleting chemicals in the process of our products.
  2. Cleaning and packaging options are available upon request.
6.0 Testing and Inspection
  1. WinTech will measure tubing and fittings with calipers, micrometers, or other acceptable methods, to certify that the finished products conform to the dimensional requirements to which they were ordered.
  2. WinTech will supply Material Test Reports with all WinTech BA material.

Materials

Sanitary tubing is available in alloys 304/304L and 316/316L. All 316/316L seamless tubing is supplied with a sulfur content of .005-.012% and welded tubing is supplied with a sulfur content of .005-.017% as specified in ASTM A270, Supp. S2 ASME-BPE. Available in A249, A269 and A270

Marking

Bright annealed tubing is line-stenciled with OD, wall, ASTM specification, manufacturer, grade, heat number, or per ASME-BPE.

Mechanical Tests

To ensure the highest quality in all of our sanitary products, WinTech meets or exceeds the requirements of ASTM and/or ASME A213 EAW, A269 and/or A270 S2, per order.

Surface Finish

All ID surface finishes are u-in Ra maximum, with an optional 32 u-in OD maximum measured per ASME/ANSI B46.1.

Cleaning

As an option any WinTech product can be TC&C (thermocouple cleaned and capped) or CFOS (cleaned for oxygen service). Class 10 cleanroom processing and packaging is available for final cleaning.

Inspection

100% of all WinTech tubing shall be inspected for conformance to most recent ASME BPE or SEMI acceptance criteria for interior surface finishes of tubing.

Protective Packaging

Packaging is provided to protect the OD, for polished material, as well as the ID of the products. Protective caps and bagging is available to ensure the products arrive at your site in the same excellent condition they left our facility. For WinTech 10 Polyamide Nylon film is covered then capped.

Tubing can be ordered with ends faced ready for orbital welding.

Winter Technologies will supply the following reports and certificates of analysis with all WinTech orders when applicable:

  • Material Test Reports
  • Certificate of Conformance
  • SEM, ESCA, AUGER when required