Very true... there is no "direct fire" of the medium in this case, even though that is what it is termed at our company. I have gotten with my inspector and he has said the same about the flange, that since it is outside of the actual vessel, it does not need to retain pressure nor meet any...
Stan,
Does it matter what type of fired process that the treater will be used for? It is a fired treater to treat oil, not just water. My inspector is coming over later today to look at a different type of vessel and I will get with him, but if you have some insight into this, the inspectors...
Stan
I do have an ASME Certificate of Authorization. We have never used Section IV, we have always used Section VIII, our AI goes by the Sec.VIII guidelines. I am new to the Quality Control aspect of this job. Is there a provision of Section IV that I should be looking at? The only Code books...
I did see the UCS-6(2) and did read the part about unfired, but it never makes mention about fired- i know that one should draw a logical conclusion based off of an unfired not allowing it but I did want to get outside opinions
Thanks for the heads up. I can not seem to locate my 16.5 anywhere which is why I have been operating somewhat blind for the past few hours and trying to comb through the Sec8 Div1 book was getting me nowhere.
I have read it, and I do appreciate the advice, however my part in question seems to fall into a somewhat grey zone. It is a very specific situation that I have not encountered yet and I have my background and gut feeling telling me to go with SA-516-70, but I still economically need to pursue...
I have a coded fired steam boiler that I am building and my firebox flange should not technically retain any pressure but I have to consider it pressure retaining anyway. The original BOM has my material at SA-36 (.75" thick) receiving only 150F temp operating and 75lbs of pressure design. The...
