Jimbo, The ASME BPVC is for all kind of vessels, all of them have different applications and different fabrication rules, some of them are very similar, but if you design a steam boiler, you have differences with a water boiler, a pressure vessel, or a separator, for this reason the Code has...
Jimbo, Section III are Rules for construction of Nuclear Facility Components and Section IV are Rules for Heating Boilers fired by oil, gas, electricity, or coal; two totally different areas, go to www.asme.org for details about the BPVC.
When you design by B31.3, you have a design thickness for the pressure at the operating temperature, then you add the CA if you have, then you goes to the nominal thickness from where you multiply by 0.875 to have the useful thickness for your pipe, so, you have enough thickness for many years...
I always use check valves in oil pipelines (B31.4), after crossing rivers, swamps, or other sensitive areas, because is cheaper to have only one remote controlled valve before the crossing area, and the check at the other side that will respond automatically if something happens upstream. Read...
Hi Crittenden, you will need to check first if there are or not signs of corrosion atack inside or outside this vessel, then if you consider necessary you need a NDT to confirm or to check the thickness of the tank, and at last you will need to run a hydro or pneumatic test to be sure that is...
Connect the coil wires from the starter of the jockey pump thru the n.c. points in the main pump starters so when they start working, you jockey pump has a break. How do you control the main pumps?, by pressure controls or flow controls to keep them on line or off?.
Just put all them in a logic...
