The invention relates to a
processing method of an austenitic seamless stainless steel rectangle
water pipe used for a turbo-generator, which sequentially has the
processing steps of hot rolling
round bar, continuous extruding round
pipe, drawing an elliptic
pipe with a non-core bar, drawing a rectangle
pipe with a short core bar, and carrying out
solution treatment and annealing to obtain the finished product. According to the
mass percentage, the stainless steel which is adopted by the
water pipe contains carbon less than or equal to 0.030%,
silicon less than or equal to 1.0%,
manganese less than or equal to 2.0%, sulphur less than or equal to 0.030 %,
phosphorus less than or equal to 0.035%,
chromium ranging from 18.00% to 20.00%, Ni
ranging from 9.0% to 13.0%,
rare earth element Re
ranging from 0.002% to 0.008%, silver ranging from 0.001% to 0.005%, and iron and other impurities with the residual quantity; wherein, the
rare earth element is a compound which consists of 40% to 45% of Ce, 40% to 45% of
lanthanum and Yt with residual quantity according to the
mass percentage. The processed
water pipe has good
toughness, strong
corrosion resistance and low magnetic permeability, and is an ideal material used for the motor
stator water pipes of 1000MW-class turbo-generators.