“How the stress engineers can save on input time and concentrate on their primary task of solving stress problems by extracting the piping layout directly from the plant model, and do so with full confidence”?
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Piping Support Design – Video tutorial
Piping Technology & Products has issued a series of interesting video tutorial about how Piping design and analysis influences pipe support selection and design, covering topic from basic concepts of piping layout and stress analysis, to advances selection of piping supports.
PCL Gold 4.01: new release of Pipe Stress FE/Pipe
New pipe stress module PCL Gold available in the latest release of FE/Pipe.
PCL Gold can be used in case of friction and other non linerarity convergence issues, to automatically run FEA at intersection, to study pipes with large D/T, in case of multiple load cases, high number of cicles, if we want to automatically run FEA at intersections, if accurate ASME B31.1 and B31.3 i-factor and k-factor has to be calculated, for acoustically involved vibrations, glass line pipes and refractory line pipes.
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Lesson learnt from Valero’s McKee refinery explosion
Just a small bar of metal dropped and stuck in the wrong place.
According to CSB investigation this was the origin of the catastrofic explosion of Valero’s Refinery in February 2007 that injured 19 people and led 50 milion dollars of losses.
Could this disaster be avoided? Let’s find it out.
ASME course: B31.3 Process Piping Design
This four-days long course will explain “how B31.3 has been correctly and incorrectly applied, by using hundreds of real world examples as well as the personal experiences of the instructors”, Mr. Glynn E. Woods (35 years of experience) and Mr. Ronald W. Haupt (40 years of experience).
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EN 13480:2012
Release 2012 of EN 13480 has been approved by CEN.
EN 13480 is the reference document for piping stress analysis and piping support calculation and it complies to essential safety requirements of the Pressure Equipment Directive 97/23/EC (PED), compulsory for piping pressures above 0.5 barg.
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Process Plant Equipment: Operation, Control, and Reliability
Edited by Wiley and Sons Ltd., available from 19 September 2012, this book is a technical reference for the state of art of process equipments with detailed description of Continua a leggere
CAU 2012
After the successful tour in South Africa, Dubai, India, Japan, China, Korea and Singapore with 849 attendees in four weeks, CADWorkx & Analysis University (CAU) will take place in Houston, Texas next 24-25 September, for his traditional two-day, in-depth training event of fall.
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Sostanze pericolose: ecco i nuovi simboli.
” per fluidi pericolosi si intendono le sostanze o i preparati definiti all’articolo 2, paragrafo 2 della direttiva 67/548/CEE del Consiglio, del 27 giugno 1967”. (Art. 9 -2.1)
Anche nella nostra esperienza quotidiana siamo stati abituati a riconoscere tali fluidi dai simboli neri in campo arancione (sistema HSID).
La direttiva PED (97/23/EC): introduzione
La Direttiva PED (Pressure Equipment Directive) 97/23/EC è una direttiva europea recepita in Italia con il D.L. 93/2000 ed obbligatoria dal 31 maggio 2002. Essa disciplina la “progettazione, fabbricazione e valutazione di conformità delle attrezzature a pressione e degli insiemi sottoposti ad una pressione massima ammissibile PS superiore a 0.5 bar”. Si tratta di una direttiva valida in tutta l’Unione Europea, in Svizzera, Norvegia, Islanda e numerosi altri paesi che riconoscono la direttiva. Il suo scopo è armonizzare le norme nazionali per promuovere la libera circolazione degli apparecchi sottoposti a pressione. Pur trattandosi di una normativa di prodotto, essa promuove di fatto anche la circolazione dei servizi di ingegneria.