Design and Analysis of Pressure Vessel Components as per ASME Sec. VIII Div. III

  Parag V. Nikam,  Aniruddha A. Sathe,  Vikas R. Maurya,  Shriyash V. Tamhane,  Akshay P. Save

The pressure vessels are important component for Process industry which serves for various purposes. These vessels are designed considering the operating parameters such as Type of fluids, Quantity, Volume, and mainly temperature and pressure. The aim of this project is to perform the detailed design & analysis of pressure vessel for optimum thickness using ANSYS software. The selected components of pressure vessel like Shell, Heads, Nozzles, Supports and Lifting Lugs etc. are compared with Standard available thickness and optimization being done for the allowable stresses for MOC. The thickness of the pressure vessel is checked for different load cases. This results in the optimization of pressure vessel component thickness and hence reduces the overall weight and the cost the pressure vessel due optimum wall thickness for same service conditions. The optimized pressure vessel will be able to withstand all conditions applied on the pressure vessel during the service period of time with same safety factor but lower weight compared to the existing model.

Keywords- ANSYS (software), MOC(Material of construction) ASME (American society of Mechanical engineers)

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1801145
Page Number(s) - 834-840
Pubished in - Volume 6 | Issue 1 | March 2018
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -   
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Parag V. Nikam,  Aniruddha A. Sathe,  Vikas R. Maurya,  Shriyash V. Tamhane,  Akshay P. Save,   "Design and Analysis of Pressure Vessel Components as per ASME Sec. VIII Div. III", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.6, Issue 1, pp.834-840, March 2018, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1801145.pdf