Once I made a boring job more interesting by putting together a training course for my co-workers. With a little research, you can explain to your non-degreed superiors how the cookie-cutter industry practices came into being. You will learn a lot in the process, your co-workers may be able to...
Thank you sethoflagos, that makes perfect sense. As panduru noted, this is not a petroleum tank, but the owner wants API compliance and a controlled overflow path.
A design proposal for an atmospheric storage tank shows the high liquid level all the way up to the top angle. This corresponds to the requested nominal capacity of the tank.
Does API 650 allow the overflow nozzle to be located on the roof? Or is there a minimum freeboard above the stated...
Thanks to all for your thoughtful replies. In the documents we put out to the client, the design engineer (not me, by the way) specified "bar (gauge)" leaving no room for interpretation.
zdas04, to make matters more confusing, I have a reference that shows 1 bar=0.9869 atm. As far as bar...
A firm in the US is designing systems for a process plant in China. Over here, when we say "100 psi steam" it is understood that it means psig. Over there, they use "bar" for pressure. A 100 psig system would be 7 bar (gauge) or 8 bar (absolute). In places where "bar" is used, is it assumed...
I have a situation where vacuum will be pulled on a steam line, creating lower density and higher velocity steam than the pipe was originally designed for.
Many publications list 12,000 ft/min as a maximum velocity for steam in a process plant environment.
Does anyone know what happens when...
Hello,
I'm sizing traps for a long straight 8" pipe carrying 50 psi saturated steam, with 0F ambient.
Using the tables in steam equipment catalogs, they produce an answer in the neighborhood of 50 lb/hr condensate per 100 ft insulated pipe.
Typically I like to check the tables against my own...
Don't forget that the engine will expel significant heat outdoors through the exhaust.
Regarding energy as noise, this also becomes heat load as the building muffles the sound. The sound power level will not be significant anyway; consider a 500W car stereo making more noise than a sizeable...
Don't forget that an unchallenging job can diminish your quality of life.
Figure out what you love to do, and success will follow; with or without money.
Tick:
(That sounds like a song often heard on the southern US airwaves.)
In order to accomplish anything significant outside of work, like learning a language, a musical instrument, earning a PE, or changing jobs, you almost have no choice but to get organized and stick to a plan.
Unfortunately...
SomptingGuy:
Archimedes Principle says that the weight of water displaced by a floating object equals the weight of the floating object.
When you throw the brick overboard, the boat weighs less, so it displaces less water, and the water level drops, until the brick hits the water.
Assuming the...
PUMPMANPLEE indicated that the dp sensor is across the inlet and outlet of the chiller. If the pump is upstream of the chiller, then the dp across the chiller will decrease as flow decreases.
If PUMPMANLEE meant to say that the dp sensor is aross the supply and return systems, with the supply...
Everyone's advice is well taken, thanks much!
Here are the reasons I might have ignored much of the advice given here, and gone with company A:
-My particular skill set is very valuable to them at this time. Why not capitalize on that fact?
-I'd become one of the most senior technical...
Very perceptive, IRStuff - 12 is correct.
Indeed this is a very critical crossroads and I must tread carefully. Thanks to all for the food for thought.
I'm off to interview the COO of company A. Never in my wildest dreams...
