Keywords
Code
Thickness
How to Cite
Abstract
Pressure vessels, in many cases, are the nucleus of the productive process of countless
industries worldwide, hence its importance and relevance in the area of mechanical design. In order
to ensure its proper functioning and to prevent the catastrophic failure of these equipment, regulations
have been created and adopted at the international level to establish the minimum procedures and
requirements for its design, manufacture, inspection, assembly and alteration. The main objective of the
present work is to present, through a practical comparative exercise, the main codes used in different
continents for the dimensioning of pressure vessels. For this, the particular procedures of the selected
standards are applied in the actual case of analysis of a purge gas tank, where the minimum thickness
required for the design conditions is calculated, where it was determined that the code requiring a greater
Thickness was the Indian Standard IS 2825: 69 (72.77 mm), which was 81% higher than the German
standard AD-Merkballer (40.22 mm), which requires the least thickness for the design of the same vessel.
Keywords: Pressure Vessel, Code, Thickness
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