PV Elite 2015 Training

ECE is holding a 2 day PV Elite training class at our Houston Training Facility on Jones Road.

PV Elite 2015 Training: Houston, March 17-18, 2015

PV Elite Training covers fundamental guidelines for pressure vessel design.  The course will be focused on Section VIII Division I, and will cover local wind and seismic codes; however other codes and standards will be referenced.   Best practices for pressure vessel design are based on industry provided experience, which will allow attendees to ground engineering principles to real world applications. This course is not lecture based.  Content is applied to each core aspect of PV Elite to facilitate hands on learning.  Attendees will learn not only how to use PV Elite effectively but also learn how to become better engineers.

Day 1

Core concepts

• User interface fundamentals.
• Understanding code requirements for Section VIII Division 1.
• Allowable stress requirements and application to pressure vessels.
• Limiting MDMT requirements for nozzles and shells.
• Limiting factors for design of vessel, MAWP, MAPNc.
• Situations for utilizing PV Elite or CodeCalc.
• Design vs. Analyze modes for pressure vessels.
• Designing for internal and external pressure.
• Evaluation of nozzle designs and fabrication options for the designer.
• Cones and Conical sections.
• Options for skirt, saddle, base ring and leg and support lug designs.
• Analysis of results in PV Elite.
• Interoperability between PV Elite and CADWorx.

Day 2

Horizontal Vessel Analysis

• Saddle design and Zick Analysis for horizontal vessels.
• Heat exchanger tube sheet calculations.
• Heat exchanger expansion joint calculations.
• TEMA heat exchangers as well as UHX design.
• Importing WRC loads from CAESAR II
• Flange design and analysis.
• Welded Flat heads.

Tall Tower Analysis

• Allowable stresses on tall towers.
• Tower internals and mass distribution.
• Wind and Seismic codes and load factors.
• Platforms and wind area calculations.
• Computing natural frequencies for wind and seismic codes.
• Computing baserings using the standard and the neutral axis shifted approach.
• Calculations for lifting lugs.

Design and Evaluation

• API 579 for flaw and local thin area assessment.
• WRC 107/297 for nozzles
• Code Case 2695 using Division 1 allowables with Division 2 codes.
• Generating required report output for code compliance.
• Conformity assessment and QA procedures.

Please call or contact us for details and pricing.