Dear college Engineers,
We are doing some feasibilities for a large oil tank terminal in Western Europe and I am looking for literature which indicates the drip rate for various oil viscosities in function of the roughness of the tank wall plate material and (if possible) in combination with...
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We have to specify some mechanical equipment (deck crane, loading arms, inside fuel tank, etc,,) for an offshore platform (no oil rig) in the North Sea. We have some DNV standards but where in heaves sake can I find the min and max temperatures at sea and wind loads at certain heights...
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Just being bussy specifying the flange finish for and ANSI B16.5 raised face flange for a ejector mixer. We are using graphite envelope gaskets with stainless steel insert. I can specify serrated spiral or concentric grooves in the raised face surface. Which type of grooves do I...
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I am working for a plant in belgium and we have to remove an existing 40 mtr column out of the plant in the shut down. Column is weighing bare 36850 kg and fully dressed (insulation, ladders , platforms and trays) 71350 kg. To be quick we want to lift the column out without removing...
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I am working for an engineering company in Belgium and I have the following :
For a certain service we required self priming pumps but could not find the proper selection, now we are thinking of a make up system with a vacuum unit (water vacuum jet). We intend to suck out the air in the...
I have a discussion with a pump manufacturer about the pump efficiencies. After order it appears that they cannot comply with their quoted efficiencies. They have "forgotten" to include the absorbed power for the double mechanical seals (varies from 0.5 to 1 kW) in their quotation. Now this is...
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I am working for an engineering company in Belgium (Europe) and just had a discussion with our stress engineer.
Piping has located an 1800 kg pump (operation temperature of 40 ° C - design 80 °C) 2 meters from a brick wall with the 8" suction lines penetrating the wall.
The wall is...
We are doing a big revamp job here in Anwterp and we have two existing vertical turbine pumps in the CW circuit. Now we have to expand the capacity of the CW system and want to purchase two additional vertical turbine pumps, however of course the original suplpier is not the cheapest. Has anyone...
