6th online design course

The 6th edition of the pressure vessel and heat exchanger design course, held in March 2024, marked a record number of participants, surpassing all previous online course editions. This shows that our pressure vessel design course, full of practical calculation examples and design tips, is particularly appreciated by pressure vessel designers and all those working in this field and encourages us to propose the course to a constantly growing audience.

The course is aimed not only at guiding participants in the process of properly designing pressure vessels and heat exchangers, but also at showing how to optimize the design, minimizing weight and cost of the equipment, while maintaining compliance with the reference standards. In-depth studies of the critical aspects of designing specific pressure parts will also be part of the course. Moreover, comparisons among the main calculation standards will allow participants to recognize which is the impact of a particular standard on the calculation. Several practical calculation examples will be presented during the course.

Our design courses have become a milestone in the professional training of design engineers and of all professionals involved in designing or checking pressure equipment, in Italy and in Europe. More than 1,500 people have attended the courses over the years.

The course covers the following topics:

Lesson 1
-General notions of pressure vessel design

Lesson 2A + Lesson 2B
-Mechanical design for internal and external pressure
-Mechanical design of bolted flange connections

Lesson 3A + Lesson 3B
-Thermal design of shell and tube heat exchangers
– Mechanical design of shell and tube heat exchangers

Lesson 4A + Lesson 4B
-Pressure vessel design for loads other than pressure
-Design for cyclic loads

The Speaker of the course is Dr. Fernando Lidonnici,  European expert on pressure equipment design, who is the Coordinator of the European workgroup WG53/ CEN TC54, which developed the design part of EN 13445, ASME Member and President of EPERC (European Pressure Equipment Research Council). In 2018 he was awarded the Donald Julius Groen Prize from IMechE, the British Institution of Mechanical Engineers, for his activity in the field of European Pressure Vessel Norms.

A new course edition will take place in the next months.

For information on the course feel free to contact Dr. Bordoni at bordoni@sant-ambrogio.it