This question comes out many times in the work of heat exchanger designers. The answer is needed whichever is the pressure vessel standard to be used. The normal situation in which the engineer charged of the mechanical design of shell and tube heat exchangers finds himself is the following: a…
When I started working for an important Italian Pressure Vessel and Heat Exchangers manufacturer (around 50 years ago) I only knew that a shell and tube heat exchanger was some kind of metallic container, generally filled with tubes, with two fluids coming into it: a cold fluid, which should come…
It is now more than 30 years that I have the honour of being the president (sorry! I meant the coordinator) of Working Group 53 (Design and Calculation) of CEN Technical Committee 54, which is in charge of the most important of all the harmonized standards of the PED Directive:…
This clause contains specific requirements for pressure equipment that have been considered on all harmonized standards of Directive 2014/68/EU, generally known as the Pressure Equipment Directive. It comes from a compromise solution found during the preparation of the first Pressure Equipment Directive 97/23/EC, of which the subject directive 2014/68/EU is…
This year it was particularly rich in news for anyone working with European, American and also Italian standards: there is a lot of movement, we will try to explain why and analyze the consequences. The harmonized Unfired Pressure Vessel standard EN 13445. During 2018 several amendments of part 3 (Design…
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