| Applications Description |
Reference, Standard or Document Source |
| 1. API-510 PV Inspection Module |
| 1.1 Tabulated Text Windows set in cascade design for quick access to commonly referenced code issues per component and applicable subject matter (Design, Inspection and Repairs) |
- API-510 Inspection and Repair of PV’s
- API-572 Inspection of PV’s
- API-571 Damage Mechanisms
- API-576 Inspection of PSV’s
- ASME VIII Div 1 Design & Construction of PV’s
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1.2 Design Code Access Linking
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API, ASME, UL, NFPA
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1.3 Pick buttons to Report Builder, Engineering Data, Repair Specs, PV Calculations, Hydro Testing Calculations, Definitions
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Program Functions |
2. Report Builder for PV's |
| 2.1 Report Write-ups - Executive Summary, Findings & Recommendations |
API-510 Inspection and Repair of Pressure Vessels |
| 2.2 Thickness Measurements (UT) Data entry |
ASNT |
| 2.3 Component Calculations (shell, heads, nozzles, corrosion rates, remaining life) based on inspection data thickness measurements |
- API-510
- ASME Sect VIII, Div 1
- ASME B16.5
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| 2.4 Simple PV’s and Complex (w/ jackets, op. in vacuum, Heat Exch.) |
ASME Sect VIII, Div 1 |
| 2.5 API-510 Checklist |
API-510 Inspection and Repair of Pressure Vessels
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| 2.6 AutoCAD Boiler Plate Drawings with to scale block options for shells, nozzles, other components |
Requires one of these programs:
- IntelliCAD
- AutoCAD 14 (or greater)
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| 2.7 Word Document Template for Photos |
Microsoft Word Program Required |
3. PV Calculations |
| 3.1 All Types of shell components (Cylindrical, Spherical, Conical, Toriconical) |
ASME Sect VIII, Div 1
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| 3.2 Formed and flat head components (Ellipsoidal, Torispherical, Hemispherical) |
ASME Sect VIII, Div 1
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| 3.3 Heat Exchanger components (Cylindrical, Tubes, Tubesheets, Floating Cover) |
- ASME Sect VIII, Div 1
- TEMA
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| 3.4 App 2 Flange Calculations |
ASME Sect VIII, Div 1 |
| 3.5 Nozzle Reinforcement |
ASME Sect VIII, Div 1
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| 3.6 Tower Loads |
- ASME Sect VIII Div 1
- Pressure Vessel Handbook
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| 3.7 Horizontal Tank Calculations |
Pressure Vessel Handbook - Zick Formula |
4. Engineering Data |
| 4.1 Material Stress including the most common material used in the construction of storage tanks, pressure vessels and piping such as welding material, plated designs, piping, forgings, castings, and bolting |
Design Codes:
- ASME Sec II Part D,
- ASME B31.3 Table A,
- API-650,
- API-653
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| 4.2 Pipe Standards to include Class ratings, WN & LWN specifications, Size and Schedules, Practical minimum thicknesses, Gaskets, Bolting, et. |
- ASME B16.5,
- ASME Section II
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| 4.3 Product Data (SG, Flash Point, Boiling Point, et of commonly stored substances) |
Product MSDS |
| 4.4 Tube Gauge Thicknesses |
AWG, SWG, BWG, US, BG, ISWG |
| 4.5 Engineering calculations to include areas of squares, rectangles, circles, volume of cylinders, cubes, conversions tables, basic trig functions |
Basic Math operations |
5. Repair Specifications |
| 5.1 Modules for issuing repair spec to include Nozzle Installation, Repad Installation, Shell Inserts, Lap Patches, Weld Repair and Overlay, et |
Design & Inspection Codes:
- ASME Sec VIII Div 1 ,
- API-510,
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