Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

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

Full vacume vessel FV 4

Status
Not open for further replies.

mmd-pnu

Petroleum
Nov 2, 2021
2

Hi geants,
please could you explain the fv (full vacume) pressure for vessel?
and wht the inetrnal pressure less than external pressure.?

Regards.
 
Replies continue below

Recommended for you

Full Vacuum: Internal Absolute Pressure = 0 psi, external absolute pressure = 15psi.
 
Process Engineers would say Internal design pressure 0 psia, external pressure assuming above ground at sea level 15 psia.

Why?

Sometimes you can have e.g a vessel full of steam which then cools and condenses to water at a very small fraction of the volume.
Sometimes you can connect your vessel to a pump or compressor which pulls all the contents out of the vessel.

Many times it won't be absolute vacuum, but FV is better than trying to guess what level of sub atmospheric pressure you can rely on.

Remember - More details = better answers
Also: If you get a response it's polite to respond to it.
 
Many thanks guys for your answers

Could you provied more examples for good understanding
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor