PVP-Vol.

480, Pressure Vessel and Piping Codes and Standards -- 2 0 0 4

July 2 5 - 2 9 , 2004, San Diego, California USA

COMPARATIVE STUDY PVP2004-2705

EN 134451ASME Section VIII Div. 1 & 2
Reinhard Preiss' and Josef L. Zeman**
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T0V OSTERREICH, Krugerstr.16, A-1050 Vienna, Austria
Email:prr@tuev.or.at
Institute for Pressure Vessel & Plant Technology
Vienna University of Technology,
Gusshausstr. 30•329, A-1040, Vienna, Austria
Email: j.zeman+e329@tuwien.ac.at

EN 13445 is a modern, complex standard,
incorporating many different ideas from
acknowledged national standards, and also some
new ideas, based on relatively recent research in
various fields of technology.
Coordination and editing of the different necessary
requirements in design, materials, manufacture and
testing, in three languages, was not without
problems. Additionally, the reaction on the side of
manufacturers, users, inspection bodies, etc was
human - a reluctance of trying out something new,
especially if this new thing incorporates new,
unfamiliar ideas, notions, etc. The so-called
presumption of conformity with the essential safety
requirements of the Pressure Equipment Directive,
the coumion law in the European Union, was not an
incentive enough, the other possibilities to fulfil the
requirements of the law liberal enough.
As an additional check of the consistency, of the
adequacy with regard to the state of science and
technology, as a help for manufacturers and users,
an EU research project was initiated, encompassing
nine different pressure vessel designs. The goal was
to famifiafize potential users of the standard with
the ideas of the standard, to give them benchmark
examples, to bring advantages and disadvantages to
the open, and to compare results with those
according to ASME Section VIII, Divisions 1 and
2.
The design and testing requirement comparison is
already finished, the cost comparison will be
finished in the next months, will certainly be
available at the ASME Conference
The nine examples investigated are:
1) A fairly large CNG storage tank. Diameter
2200 ram, length approximately 20 000 ,aa,
maximum allowable pressure 70 bar, ambient
temperatures.
2) A hydrogen reactor with external piping loads.
Diameter 2500 ram, cylindrical length 8000
ram, maximum allowable pressure 180 bar,
maximum allowable temperature 400°C.
3) Jacketed autoclave, serially produced.
Diameter 500 ram, cylindrical length 800 mm,
bayonet-type closure. Maximum allowable
pressure 2.5 bar, steam saturation temperature.
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4) A rather big jacketed stirring vessel, bolted
cover, with rotating moment at stirrer.
Diameter 3200 ram, cylindrical length appr.
3500 ram, maximum allowable temperature
50°C.
5) A heat exchanger, type AES. Diameter (inside)
1062 ram, tube length 5888 r~n. Maximum
allowable pressures: Shell side 10 bar, tube
side 20 bar. Calculation temperature (both
sides): 200°C
6) A heat exchanger, type BEM. Diameter
(inside) 539 ram, tube length 6094 ram.
Maximum allowable pressures: Shell side 10
bar, tube side 20 bar. Calculation temperature
(both sides) 200°C
7) A simple heat exchanger, type NEN. Diameter
(inside) 292 ram, tube length 1500 ram.
Maximum allowable pressures: Shell side 6
bar, tube side 3 bar. Calculation temperatures:
Shell side 180°C, tube side 150°C
8) A serially fabricated water separator with
piping reactions. Outer diameter 406.4 ram,
overall length appr. 1100 nail Maximum
allowable pressure 34 bar, maximum allowable
temperature 240°C
9) An air cooler inlet header, ofrectangnlar cross
section, with nozzle forces and moments.
Internal dimensions 255 ram x 190 ram, length
3096 ram. Maximum allowable pressure 77
bar, maximum/minimum design temperature
120°C / -25°C.
In Examples 3 and 4 a fatigue evaluation is required
explicitely.
Design results and cost comparison will be
presented, extreme results discussed.
For the cost estimates, costs of at least two
manufacturers from at least two different countries
had been collected.
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