This is question best posed in the CFD forum. You will be fighting convergence with the pressure inlet/pressure outlet configuration. You will see better convergence with mass flow inlet/pressure outlet.
The 10,000 sm3/h figure seems more reasonable for a low flow scenario, and if that is the case your valve might not be over sized. The point that you seem to be missing is that what people have been trying to tell you is that this inquiry is not how valves are typically supplied. Your customer...
The information you have is not appropriate for sizing a valve as LittleInch has already stated. The customer normally fills out a standard valve spec sheet. It will pair a specific stream condition temp/flow/fluid properties with a given P1/P2 condition or maximum drop. This is determined by...
At over 1000°F you are probably getting into the creep range of 17-4 and are losing nearly half of your original yield strength. You will also see significant thermal expansion. Keep in mind you will see accelerated pitting and corrosion due to the elevated temperature. At those temperatures I...
Please see the following on natural gas behavior.
https://petrowiki.spe.org/Natural_gas_properties
To fully asses the risks to the valve you should consult with your valve supplier, and process engineer do determine the valve requirements. As others have stated in general you are starting off...
If your process modeling shows that your natural gas is 100% gas at the inlet conditions then there can be no cavitation. You are already in the gas region of your bubble-point curve additional pressure drops will not cause cavitation. You are more likely for generate droplets from condensed...
There are multiple forces to consider when designing a valve stem, and there are no codified formulations for doing so. To answer your latest question, yes you should consider actuation forces when designing your stem, as well as any intentional or unintentional load that can be applied to the...
To answer your questions:
1.) This is typically what is called a butter pass. The alloy 625 is used as a buffer between two incompatible materials. Welding the Stellite directly to the F44 may cause cracking and non-boded material.
2.) for the correct procedure you would need to check with a...
If you are already using other FEM methods with regularity and success what is driving your desire to use different approach? Have you validated the accuracy of the method/software by reproducing the results of past analyses or example problems from the ASME PTB example problems manual? Can you...
Q1 does not mandate any defined organizational structure. Where R&D is placed in the org would depend on the duties it performs, but in most cases I would assume it falls underneath the umbrella of the engineering department.
If R&D is tasked with the development of of new products and...
While using WB the element selection is somewhat limited. In order to use a shell element you would need to be meshing a surface geometry and not a volume. If you have defined a given thickness ie. defined the in and outer boundaries of your surface WB will mesh it with solid elements which is...
The acceptability of the proposed alternative procedure is at your client's discretion. I doubt the use of digital pressure transducers will be considered an acceptable alternative to the dye. I believe that the purpose of the dye test is to drive the dye into any surface cracks that may open...
For valves 1 test cycle is considered from full open to fully closed or fully closed to fully open under differential pressure for shut off valves. For static equipment it is generally considered from no pressure to full rated pressure for a designated hold period, and back to atmospheric...
There are too many API standards to know which one you are talking about, but most of the valve codes do not prescribe a required wall calculation method. A corrosion allowance is normally applied to the calculations that I perform. For standards where a wall thickness calculation is given...
You may want to refer to API 6A Annex B for which PR and PSL levels are recommended for certain applications. As a rule of thumb a majority API valve products are sold as PR2. On to your questions.
1.) The manufacturer will label which of their products are PR1, PR2 or PR2F.
2.) My...
Are your conversions correct? As far as I can tell for the gamma and X-rays, yes. For the others I am not sure, as my experience is with industrial radiography using those forms of radiation. The Alpha and Beta rays are blocked by the equipment so I never had to work with the dosages.
Is it a...
You should read the marking section 8 of API 20E further details, but from what I am seeing no you do not need to apply an API monogram or date of manufacture to the bolts for any size, unless it is in the specification of the specification of the equipment manufacturer order the bolting. You do...
I understand the issues incorporating a seat ring in a high pressure valve, but there are some advantages as well. The primary of which is that the valve doesn't need to be removed from line, and sent to a machine shop for seat repair. As I said I'm not familiar with the particular code you are...
I'm not too familiar with this standard, but from what I interpret, no you can't weld 13% chrome directly to the body. Take this with a grain of salt as there may be some other sections in the code which disallow this practice, but it may be permissible to qualify a weld procedure using a butter...
You would need to manually define the contact by selecting the contact/target surfaces, and applying the contact behavior etc. You may need to refine the load time steeping to detect the contact. With that being said something may be incorrect with the model or design. The model may be...
