Not sure, but if you completely remove all prior weld and HAZ and ensure the par

ent metal is not overtempered during the multiple PWHT processes ( by adding th
ermocouples directly under the induction heating coils) I think at least 3 weld
cycles could be allowed.
If you do not remove all weld metal and HAZ metal, then the remnant HAZ becomes
"reheated" and add'l carbide precipitation or aging occurs to the old HAZ and ad
jacent material- if the region that is over-aged extends beyond perhaps 2t ( t=
wall thickness) then there may be concern that type IV creep damage would impac
t the life of the joint( I'm assuming we are talking about operating above 800 F
).
The axial stress imposed on a butt weld is only 50% of the circumferential stre
ss that the parent metal is exposed to, so the ( 50% ) weaker butt weld HAZ is
normally permitted under the assumption that the damaged HAZ is thin- but once
the damage or aged material exceeds a significant fraction of the wall thickness
, then that assumption might not be valid.
A larger issue with the newer materials ( P91 et al)is that the PWHT that occurr
ed prior to circa 2009 likely did not include monitoring thermocouples directly
under the induction heating coil- that zone may have been overtempered. It has
since been found that the temperature difference between the under-coil zone and
the weld zone thermocouples could be as much as 100F- it is roughly proportiona
l to the rate of pipe heat up ( F/min) times the square of the distance between
the monitoring t/c's and the center of the induction coil zone. If you make th
at same mistake multiple times, it doesn't get better.