I fully understand the pressure classes that are used for flanged valves (per ASME B16.5: Class 150, 300, 600, 900, 1500, 2500). It makes a ton of sense to me. You have a pressure and temperature of the piping system, you go to ASME B16.5, you look up the pressure class corresponding to the...
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I am starting this thread to ask for some guidance after reading another thread: http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=358123
I fully understand that there are differing *opinions* on when it is appropriate and/or cost-effective to use threaded connections or socket...
My company often deals with placing vessels on skids (steel structure) instead of on concrete pads. Since our supporting steel (skid) is constructed of I-beams, my opinion is that we also ought to have vessel support saddles with a corresponding I-beam sections (web of the saddle centered)...
Let me preface this by saying that I am fairly uninformed in this industry as I previously was an engineer in a different industry. I have not had much luck in finding industry standard approaches on some of these issues, and my company doesn't have very good internal documents/standards, so I...
