On Nov. 9, U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) Chairman John Bresland released a new video safety message asking jurisdictions across the country to adopt the American Society of Mechanical Engineers ...

Learn about the proper location for those valves, managing blowoff steam and turbine exhaust, and more. Very few deaerators utilize vessels that are not constructed and stamped in accordance with ASME ...

Reactor pressure vessels (RPVs) constitute a critical safety barrier in nuclear power plants, safeguarding against the potentially catastrophic release of radiation. The structural integrity of these ...

All over the world, pressure vessels are being pressed into service beyond their design lifetimes. Advances in machine learning can lead to the deployment of increasingly reliable non-destructive ...

While investigations continue into possible manufacturing defects in the reactor pressure vessel of unit 3 of Belgium's Doel nuclear power plant, nuclear safety authorities in other countries are ...

Composite pressure vessels have emerged as a pivotal technology in the efficient and safe storage of hydrogen, a key enabler for the transition toward sustainable energy systems. These vessels, ...

The production of a replica part of the reactor pressure vessel used in unit 1 of Switzerland's Beznau nuclear power plant has shown that aluminium oxide inclusions in the vessel formed during its ...

When reviewing the pressure vessel certification tests prescribed by the applicable norms, many of the tests are significantly influenced by the prop­erties and proper processing of the epoxy matrix ...

AZL CAD design and CAE analysis examples for Type 4 hydrogen pressure vessels, including an example of a winding scheme and relative weight results for different pressure vessel designs. Source (All ...