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I am designing a unit to ASME Section VIII-1 that is 9 Cr-Mo. I found all the other forms in Section II-D but the stress values are not there for plate. I checked in Section II-A under SA-387 and I did find grade 9 so it is an approved material.
Any thoughts or ideas how I am to...
I am trying to design a dished cover in compress out of a hogged out forging. Does anyone have a suggestion as to best model this configuration, since there is no strict hog out option in compress.
Please advise,
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We are quoting a replacement tube bundle for a high pressure steam generator (BKU), whose service clearly falls under UW-2(C) for unfired steam boilers. This bundle was already replaced once in 2014, and the tube-tubesheet joint at that time was strength welded but PWHT was not...
To start, this is for an ASME Section VIII-1 heat exchanger.
I am having a debate with some of the others in my office and was wondering if people here have any opinion. I am replacing a damaged pass partition on a 5 Cr channel. When we remove the existing pass partition, we will not cut all...
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We are having an argument with our ASME inspector and wanted to run the situation by you.
We are designing a Section VIII-1 heat exchanger. It is a BEM with a CS shell (SA-516 70 impact tested to -50F) and SS304 tubesheet. The mdmt is -50F for the shellside and -110F for the tubeside...
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I am designing a Section VIII-1 heat exchanger with design conditions 1058°F at 80 psig. I am using SS321H. While I do have all the stress values for SS321H at this temperature from Section II-D, Section II-D does not provide yield stresses for any materials over 1000F, which is causing...
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I am following up on this previous post: http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=291961
Just to clarify, if we are welding a Section VIII division 1 heat exchanger that has a tube to tubesheet strength weld (partial or full), we do not need to qualify the procedure using a mock...
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I have a customer asking us to roll AL6XN tubes into a SS316 tubesheet. I am obviously suggesting that they go with the AL6XN tubesheets as well, but I am not familiar enough with AL6XN to know if it is even possible to roll AL6XN tubes into a SS316 tubesheet. I know that some...
Does compress handle vapor distribution belts for a heat exchanger or do I have to model it as a separate vessel? I did not see the option.
Please advise,
I have been advised by my mechanical engineer that ANSI B16.5 flanges are generally not used for multi-pass heat exchangers as they would not pass Code calculations. After searching through the CODE Book, TEMA and ANSI B16.5, I did not find any reference to dispute or agree with this. I did not...
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I am working on a shell and tube design for ASME VIII-1, and my unfired steam boiler falls under UW-2(c). Specifically, my question is with the first part of UW-2(c)(2) which I transcribed below:
UW-2(c)(2): All butt welded joints shall be fully radiographed except under the provisions of...
