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Pressure Vessel Software-Solution

I’m thinking of buying or developing software for pressure vessel.I’ve searched lots of software from PVlite, Pressure Vessel Engineering, CEREBRO-mix etc. but end of the day, the customized solution that I need was always missing.Let me list out what one expect from such software… atlease I do.. if i miss out something, let me know– […]

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Cooling – Thermal Calculation

Lets Start with Diffrent Loading CalculationStep : 11. Heat Loss to Atmosphere : Surface Area m² X Delta (Tavg – Troom)ºC x 0.32 = Q1 kcal/ hr2. Cooling Load : Volume of liquid (lits) x Delta (Tstart-Tend)ºC/Time (hr) = Q2 kcal/hr3. Heat evolved during Chemical process/ Fermentation : Q3 kcal/hr Total Heat to be Removed […]

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Cooling Performance – Overview

Ok, So you want to design cooling for a vessel.. how to? Step : 1 : What you should know, and what you should askWhat you should know a) You should know what type of Vessel Construction your are offering b) You should know what Jacket for cooling you have c) You should know your […]

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Milk Property fact!

Just, I got this info & sharing with youDensity of MilkWhole milk : ρ = 1035.0 − 0.358 T + 0.0049 T^2 − 0.00010 T^3Skim milk : ρ = 1036.6 − 0.146 T + 0.0023 T^2 − 0.00016 T^3Buffalo milk : ρ = 923.84 − 0.44 TCows’s milk : ρ = 923.51 − 0.43 T […]

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Cooling of Big tanks

Dear All, Recently i was working on designing tanks with cooling jacket.In brewery in particular, there is lots of need of cooling of tank, to take care of heating load generated out of fermentation, surface losses & to get temperature profile. and as a motive to open this blog, is to share what i learn, […]

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ERP

Lately (late in my career), that is for past three years, i’m working on various ERPs. Offcourse i started the work on engineering domain. But thanks to my friends in other domain, who helped me in understanding other modules too. In my recent company i’ve developed my own ERP. it was made to take care […]

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Earth quake Factors – Why & How

Whats is Earth quake factor? and how they affect the calculation? Their are numerous papers on this, and they are equally qualified to tell you what is earthquake factor all about… but what mater to me is.. how do they do it! As far as India is concern..The earthquake of 26 January 2001 in Gujarat […]

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Earthquake loading – Brief

All designers are accustomed to evaluating moments due to eccentric and wind loads, but there are a few who may not be familiar with the method used for estimating moments due to earthquake. Therefore, the following brief outline is presented because this method is recommended as a design procedure for vessels where dynamic considerations are […]

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Thickness Calculation for Combined loading

It is customary for most vessel designers to establish the minimum vessel shell and trend thickness according to the pressure temperature conditions and then calculate the thickness required at the bottom head seam due to bending moments imposed by wind or earthquake forces. Stresses in the longitudinal direction are involved nod the following notation maybe […]

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Design : 2 : Shell (External Pressure)

External pressure can be due to internal negative Pressure, or external loading like wind, earthquake etc. or live load, snow load etc. One can design Pressure vessel for either sever combination of various load or for most possible occurrence of load combination. Load combinations are given in respective ‘Building Code’ like API, UBC, IS etc. […]

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