I have a shop fabricated API 650 tank that must be "food grade" quality. The nozzles specified by our customer are 150# flanges including both manways. When I asked my customer if we could provide API 650 manways in lieu of 150#, they said we could as long as the manways were food grade API 650...
I am currently designing shipping saddles and was wondering if there were circumstances where the baseplate thickness would not need to be calculated with the shipping loadings. The vessel will be tied down directly over each saddle such that the longitudinal and lateral loads will be translated...
I am currently designing the bottom of a Reactor that has a "round to round" transition (see attached picture). I was looking at designing it as an eccentric conical transition with an equivalent small end diameter but I am not sure this is the correct approach. Does anyone have any experience...
