Recent realisation: pressure vessel with halfpipe

The attached photos show a recently manufactured pressure vessel consisting of boiler steel plate with halfpipe. Part of the vessel was assembled using the submerged arc welding process, while the remainder was manually welded.

A half coil jacket is made by welding a half pipe around the vessel.  A plug flow with a heat transfer fluid passes through this pipe, allowing for a fast and uniform regulation of the vessel temperature. 

 

Peter Depraetere

19 October 2015