Steve,
The following paragraph appears in Chapter 8 of Pressure Safety Design for Refinery & Chemical Plants by Dr Nicholas P Cheremisinoff. This appears to fly in the face of the other arguments presented. Is loss of power that causes a surge considered such an event? Does this actually appear in ASME VIII?
Geoff
"In some cases where the ASME Code would not require pressure relief
protection, the 1.5 Times Design Pressure Rule is applicable. This rule is stated
as follows: Equipment may be considered to be adequately protected against
overpressure .from certain low-probability situations i f the pressure does not
exceed 1.5 times design pressure. This criterion has been selected since it
generally does not exceed yield stress, and most likely would not occur more
frequently than a hydrostatic test. Thus, it will protect against the possibility of
a catastrophic failure. This rule is applied in special situations which have a low
probability of occurrence but which cannot be complete& ruled out."
Steve McKenzie <Mechproj@xtra.co.nz> wrote:Hi Geoff
Cant find your original question, but am concerned a client may be
trying to sway your judgement.
If you have a coded system, then they/local authority must be able to
produce the validating documentation. If you cant, then the system
coding stamps/tags are worth jack. You may not even know the corrosion
allowance, and if you donât, there is no record of serviceability
limits.
If you have a non coded system then you may be able to apply some
judgement: In the 60's, a lot of gear was pressure rated as "non shock".
If there was an anticipated shock pressure, then this was added to the
operating pressure to arrive at the basic design pressure before
correcting for temperature etc.
A test of 1.5 times max was almost standard (even outside the good ole
US of A, Chris) and 10% overpressure was generally accpeted as the
"margin".
While this approach worked about 95% of the time, the flaw is obvious in
that no allowance is made for fatigue/endurance limit often being lower
than yield/proof stress.
In occasional surge systems, few problems. In power hydraulics, heaps of
problems, although oddly enough we still use (new) burst pressure as the
benchmark.
In a non coded system, I think that a maximum occasional pressure
excursion of up to 10% over design is unlikely to cause a problem. More
than this and I would be looking at a few SN charts and material specs.
50% over design and forget it as you are outside the designers wildest
dreams. A reverse engineer may be on the cards if the replacement cost
is truly high.; have done this on a few hydro power station penstocks,
but judgement( in the matter of residual strength), alas, has far more
importance than calculation.
Donât put your nuts on the block because your client doesnt keep good records.
Cheers
Steve
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no ASME plate...
well it might have been cooked up by some long dead guy based on one code or another... it might be able to take a limited surge above what its stamped but on the other hand it may actually have less metal in place now then when it was put in service...
I have more maybes than certainties... guess that means go by the name plate...
Going to sleep on it for now!!!
John C. Luf
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