Steam jacketed kettle design

[Amar_gharge]

How to design open top steam jacketed kettle? steps to do Jacket ,vessel & insulation thickness calculation .

 

[MJCronin]

Too vague ....

Specifically, What are you trying to do and what volumes of what substances must you address ?

Are you going to need a mixer ???

There are many, many types of heated kettle designs and with almost zero information, no one can help you

MJCronin
Sr. Process Engineer

 

Are you expecting the interweb to design a pressure vessel for you?

"Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts."

 

[Amar_gharge]

I'm designing this kettle to concentrate preheated (80 C) 400Kg sweet sorghum juice to 50Kg (105 C). Jacket pressure is 2 Kg/cm2. I have sized the vessel as per IS: 4179-1987 . The dimensions of cylindrical shape are D=1500mm, H=350mm, V=619 litr & dimensions of bottom torispherical end are D=1500mm, H=255mm, V=290, Knuckle radius is consider 0.06D. Total volume of kettle is 909 litr. The kettle will contain agitator.is this kettle should be design for external pressure? I need guidance to find the cylinder & bottom head thickness.

 

You just repeated your question to the interweb.

"Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts."

 

[Jay_]

Check the jacketed vessel design per ASME sec VIII, could be useful.
i don’t know why don’t you just buy one from the market, it could be much cheaper. Are you required to design it per some code?
There is lots of things that you should take into consideration in the design depending on your point of view and your outcome from the kettle.
This kettle is small and you probably are gonna end up wasting so much money on fabricating it from scratch. And by small i mean by its height, so no standard plate dimensions will give you the results that you are looking for without excessive excess (that’s bad if it’s stainless steel obviously).
Some markets don’t have the ability of giving you the knuckle radius mentioned above, a 90mm knucle radius isn’t excessive but still in my local country you have to pay alot to do it especially with high thickness (above 10mm).
So i advise you to pay for a new one, it will come with the agitator and a supporting structure
and save you some pain.
However you can start practicing your design of a jacketed vessel per ASME sec VIII in the meantime.

Detailing is a hobby,

 

[MJCronin]

I agree with Jay .......

This would be a mistake for a newbie to try to learn all of the codes and design their own ....

Buy a new kettle (existing design) from a reputable manufacturer or select one from the vast used kettle market !!!

A variety of matching mixers for many different liquid viscosities are also available !!!

https://www.bid-on-equipment.com/ke...jacketed-mixing-kettle----stainless-steel.htm

https://www.bid-on-equipment.com/kettles/mixing-kettles/369262~300-gallon-pardo-kettle.htm

https://www.bid-on-equipment.com/ke...-motion-inclined-scrape-surface-agitation.htm

MJCronin
Sr. Process Engineer