A process column is a pressure vessel, but pressure is often not the only thing that decides how it is built. Once a shell is tall and slender, its wall is thin relative to its…

A reactor that works on paper can still fail in the plant. The usual causes are a gasket that creeps at temperature, an alloy that suits the product but not the impurity in the feed,…

  A pressure vessel datasheet may contain just a few key figures: design pressure, design temperature, corrosion allowance, shell thickness, material, and construction code. But behind each number is an engineering decision. The real challenge…