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My career as a mechanical engineer has been mostly in the EPC, mainly fabrication in O&G. Working with packaged equipment, pressure vessels, piping and structural for upstream and midstream onshore facilities. My previous employer was not any major coporation but a family...
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I've been inspecting local fabrication shops and i've noticed that at each one they do not factor the stress ratio [Stress Value of the metal at test temperature / Stress Value of the metal at design temperature].
E.g.:
Contact Tower
MAWP: 1360 psi @ 195 deg F
Leak test was done at...
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We hired a manufacturer to build a produced water treatment skid, containing a Vertical Water Skimmer tank and a Flotation Cell tank. The skid will be operating for a temporary plant for a 5 year span located near the tropical rain forest. Both tanks are of Stainless Steel and...
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I've started reading on pressure vessel design, specifically "Pressure Vessel Handbook" 9th Ed. by Megyesy, and have come up with doubts on when to apply the Corrosion allowance while calculating the required/minimum thickness and MAWP.
EXAMPLE from the book
GIVEN DATA
Design...
