Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

  • Congratulations MintJulep on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

EOL/Elbolet on a semi-eliptical head

Status
Not open for further replies.

JungleMatic

Mechanical
Mar 14, 2013
1
I've recently run into some calculation problems with this.
Vessel designed to secVIII div1. I'm using Compress for calculations.

As an example I've got a bottle with an inlet and outlet in the shell. I need a drain and can't mount one at the bottom due to a support, so I'm using an elbolet attached to the outside of the head.
pwe0.jpg


Bonney Forge has dimensions on their website, but they are vague. Especially with the design of the EOL, it looks impossible to determine actual wall thickness.

How do I calculate for an elliptical area loss in a head. My ABSA reviewer is cutting the hole hillside and is telling me that it will cut into the vessel shell because of how low I have it. Even though he understands this is not the practice for fabrication.

Does anyone have experience with this?

Regards.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor