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:…
In 2021 we held 2 editions of our online course on the design of pressure vessels and heat exchangers in English language, in April and October. Both of them were successful and were fruitful learning opportunity for people from different European countries and some extra-European country as well. Our design courses are aimed…
Following the emergency due to the spread of Covid-19, we have updated our NextGen program to allow it to run on Remote Desktop (RDP) sessions on VPN connections between users in remote working and the company workstations where the software is installed. Therefore, all program versions released from April 2020…
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…
