Hinged Doorway on large vessel.

[22west]

I need to put a hinged door on a large section VIII vessel.
I don't recall any rules on hinged doors in the code.
Additionally I can only find vendors who make doors for bulkheads in ships. I have seen these dished head doors :

http://www.steelcraft.ca/website/fcf/quickdoors.php

But I am looking for something that is obround.

Can anyone help?

 

[buick455gs]

As long as you follow the design rules of section VIII you should be fine in using a hinged door. Is the door on the pressure side or the atmospheric pressure side and is the hinge just for handling the weight of the door during removal?

 

[unclesyd]

lacking any details on the design requirements I suggest that you look for companies like WSF Industries by doing a search on "autoclave doors".

http://www.wsf-industries.com/RAPIDOOR.htm

I will add a little word of advice. Try to design your vessel around a standard door and stay away from specials unless you have deep pockets.

 

[rneill]

The Process Industry Practices (PIP) document VEFV1100 "Vessel/S&T Heat Exchanger Standard Details" has fabrication details for hinged manways for vessels. Unfortunately, it only has round manways but it might be useful. This can be purchased from

http://www.pip.org

(but it is expensive).