We have a jacket heated agitated thin film dryer in our plant . 6 months ago it bulged on the inside. We fabricated a new vessel and after running for 6 months, it again got damaged by bulging on the inside on 6 locations like a flower. What might be the reason for this? This vessel is empty on...
Where i work, there are two pumps(one standby)(30 kw,2955 rpm) that circulates thermic fluid. Our fitters observed heavy noise and vibration from one of them. After checking they found that the bearing balls were damaged. They did a trial check on empty motor and found it was also...
Sorry if this question is basic. I'm reading Pressure vessel design manual by dennis moss and in "chapter 6: related equipment" he used LMTD to calculate the heat load/heat required, but shouldn't actual temperature difference be used which gives the actual heat energy to be given to the process...
Where i work there is this pressure vessel for hydrogenation reaction, on its name plate it is written that the design pressure is -1 +1 barg and HT pressure is 1.3 barg. It has a safety relief valve and it is written on it that the set pressure is 4.98 bar and also it has a rupture disc. It...
