You're pretty brave to state what an incompetent fitter wouldn't do! I think the possibilities are infinite! I'd have to agree with your supplier. If I had to take a wild guess on the events that led up to failure... fitter needs a flange friday afternoon, finds one that fits an IPS pipe flange...
Latexman-
Yep I did it again. My excel formula is in the format: (Q/(pi*r^3))^n, which as you pointed out is not the same as (Q / pi * r^3)^n. Its also pretty clear now why yours is written slightly different. It would have helped if I wrote it correctly to begin with.
In case anyone missed...
Thanks all.
John-
I understand where you're coming from but the issue of pressurizing the tank is not why I posted. I have subsequently learned that they only run 20 psi steam in the jacket by throttling it down with a hand valve. The jacket would have logically been designed from some amount...
I came across an interesting problem with a jacketed tank recently hoping for some perspective on this - the company who built them vanished long ago.
The tank is 2000 gallons and presumably was a dairy bulk tank. The jacket has (3) 2" pipe inlets along the side of the tank (all one above the...
I apologize for the non-response. For whatever reason I have not been able to log in on the site. I contacted the "admin" several times with no response what so ever! Ultimately I had to create a new user name (formerly 777gne). Hopefully this thread can come back to life and earn more than 2...
