Practical Guide to Pressure Vessel Manufacturing

by Sunil Kumar Pullarcot

Overview

This text explains vessel manufacture and procedures for quality assurance and control, methods for code specification compliance, all stages of the manufacturing process, and promotes uniformity of inspection, testing, and documentation. Analyzing radiographic testing procedures, the book acts as an explanation to the ASME code, features the A to Z of fabrication methodology, discusses NDT, heat treatment, and pad air and hydrostatic tests, methodology to compile a Manufacturer's Data Report, typical quality, inspection, and test plans, the requirements of welding procedure specification, procedure qualification records, and welder qualification tests, and recommended tolerances for vessels.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135558475
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	01/22/2002
Series:	Mechanical Engineering
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	360
File size:	17 MB
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About the Author

Sunil Kumar Pullarcot (Author)

Table of Contents

Fabrication: organization; manufacture of components; manufacture of vessel; nondestructive testing; pad air and preliminary hydrostatic testing; postweld heat treatment; hydrostatic testing; post-hydrostatic test cleaning; documentation. Procedures: radiographic testing procedures for pressure vessels; ultrasonic testing for pressure vessels; magnetic particle testing for pressure vessels; liquid penetrant testing for pressure vessels; hydrostatic testing for pressure vessels; quality assurance and control in welding; quality plan; inspection and test plan; standard tolerances for pressure vessels; ASME exhibits.

Editorial Reviews

Indian mechanical engineer Pullarcot summarizes his two decades of effort to bridge the gap between code specifications for pressure vessels and the procedures necessary to comply with them. He provides in some measure a guide to and clarification of the ASME code, encompassing fabrication, inspection, testing, and documentation. Among the testing procedures he describes are radiographic, ultrasonic, magnetic particle, liquid penetrant, and hydrostatic. He also discusses the manufacture of components and whole vessels, documentation, quality assurance and control in welding, quality plans, inspection and test plans, and standard tolerances. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)