- Docente: Piero Morelli
- Credits: 3
- SSD: ING-IND/14
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Chemical and Process Engineering (cod. 8896)
Learning outcomes
Unfired pressure vessels design accordingly to the EN13445
standard. Particular design considerations concerning welded
joints, shells, dished ends, nozzles, flanges, skirts and stress
analysis
Course contents
Examples of typical pressure vessels and design specifications.
General design principles accordingly to EN 13445. Materials and
design stress. Thickness design of shells (cylindrical, spherical,
conical) and dished ends (emi-spherical, elliptical,
toro-spherical). Openings design, structural verification of
flanges. Heat exchangers structural design, design considerations
on tube sheets. Principles and applications of stress analysis by
means of FEM.
Readings/Bibliography
"I recipienti in pressione", F. Cesari, D. Martini; Ed. Pitagora 2012
Teaching methods
Lecture
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Teaching tools
Slides and didactic material given by the teacher
EN 13445 code, examples and computer practice
Office hours
See the website of Piero Morelli