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code question - valve changes
Our chemical plant has a plunger type valve on the drain of a pressure vessel. After repeated failures due to corrosion, they took a commercial valve and under the direction of an experience ME modified it by creating a new, sturdier valve body made from a different alloy and thicker pipe on the...- eli73
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- Replies: 7
- Forum: ASME (mechanical) Code Issues
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valve modifications
Our chemical plant has a plunger type valve on the drain of a pressure vessel. After repeated failures due to corrosion, they took a commercial valve and under the direction of an experience ME modified it by creating a new, sturdier valve body made from a different alloy and thicker pipe on the...- eli73
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- Replies: 2
- Forum: Valve engineering
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steam superheater
Anyone have experience specifying a superheater to supply steam to a process evaporator? Specifically, this plant runs their main boilers at 150 psig to meet the sporadic (2-4 times per hour for a few minutes) demand of the evaporator. Would like to run lower pressure and use dedicated equipment...- eli73
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- Replies: 3
- Forum: Chemical plant design & operations
