Engineering                            Pressure Vessels
     ASME Sect VIII, Divs 1 & 2 expertise
     Vessel component design
     Nozzle loads
     Vessel rating services
     HX tube sheets
   Structures & Mechanics
     Steel; AISC & AISI
     Aluminum
     Welding; AWS, ASME
   Analysis
     Types
        Stress & displacement
        Fatigue
        Seismic
        Heat transfer
        High temperature behavior
        Risk Assessment
     Methods
        Spreadsheet Solutions
        Finite Element Analysis
        3D Modeling & Visualization
 Materials
     for refinery use
     for high temperatures
Computing
    Event simulation
    VBA programming/
    MS Office automation

Vessel component design

By vessel component design I mean all the things that get attached to the inside and outside of the vessel.  Some things like supports produce global responses while other attachments like nozzles and lugs are more local.

Also in this category are equipment internals that are both structures in their own right as well as items acting onto the pressure boundary.  In this area my involvement with major oil companies has included developing hydro cracker reactor internals used for both catalyst support and quench gas mixing.  'Development' included devising the design basis (load condition/ stress limit relationships) as well as the analytic methodology to calculate governing stresses and responses.

An example of a significant effort in the area of internals design is described here where the entire design basis and methodology was captured in an Excel spreadsheet utilizing custom UserForms.

contact email address - CBoyakPE@sonic.net

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