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    TEMA DEU/CEU Heat Exchanger - Connection Challenges & Analysis

    It is advisable to convert the TEMA type to NEU, as designing a flange connection for CEU/DEU types can be challenging, especially considering the need for mechanical cleaning. The shell side fluid can be switched to the tube side, and there are contractors capable of performing mechanical...
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    TEMA DEU/CEU Heat Exchanger - Connection Challenges & Analysis

    Try considering NEU type heat exchanger since you're using corrosion resistant alloy in the tubes and weld overlay on the base metal anyway. That would address a lot of your design issues. Do you need mechanical cleaning for the shell side? With that pressure as well, it would be difficult...
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    Vessel for Hydrotest over MAWP

    What is the vessel's MAP (not MAWP) though at 60°F? (uncorroded and ambient temperature).
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    Shell forming method with low out of roundness for thin shell

    Adding stiffener rings or stays is not an option?
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    nozzle-head PWHT

    Just ignore r6155. Apparently, he can't visualize your nozzle based on your description which is a very simple and common nozzle configuration. @Vessel-SA, if you read ASME Companion Guide to BPVC, they explain the requirement for preheat and PWHT is a function of the thickness of the part...
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    ASME VIII-1 Nozzle Spacing Clash

    You can modify the limits of reinforcement in PVElite. However, if you have that kind of spacing, you'll still have to consider multiple openings and overlapping local stress due to piping external loads if applicable. You can increase the thickness of the shell course where the nozzle is...
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    Reducing flange analysis using FEA or Div 1

    Pointless responses.
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    Bolts and Nuts for High-Temperature Applications – Ambiguities in European Standards

    I'm fairly certain majority of Owners/Contractors exclude austenitic SS bolts mainly due to Chloride SCC, galling, and it being an intermediate/low strength bolting for pressure retaining components such as flanges. If you're near the shore or the bolts being exposed to rainwater, that can cause...
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    Deaerator Inspection Frequency

    See API RP 581 and 580
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    Wer H2S at elevated temperatures debate

    The total sulfide species content in aqueous phase will need to be calculated to determine if you'll meet the threshold (see NACE MR0175 Part 2 Annex C).
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    ASME Section VIII Div.1 formed head straight flange (skirt) design for external loads

    Commercial softwares such as Compress and PVElite already does this for the straight flange of heads.
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    Piping wall thickness calculation during hydrotest condition

    The purpose of hydrostatic test is to verify the strength of your piping if it can handle the design pressure safely by using a pressure above it.
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    Reducer - FEA analysis

    Or why not design it in ASME BPVC, Sec. VIII, Div. 1?
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    Oil flange redesign

    I doubt anyone would adopt changing the dimensions of standard WN flanges (ASME B16.5 and B16.47) and also just minor adjustments on the hub dimensions.
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    Ring Type Flange from Rolled Strip

    It is implied already in other parts of the Code considering lamination concerns on plates. It is not due to the grain structure. Based on engineering judgment, Option 1 should be avoided. Red line is lamination :
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