Sunday, July 6, 2008

Bulkhead Stress Intensity


The analyzed Filter element bulkhead was designed to withstand pressure load of 125 psig (0.861875 MPa) as structural component as specified on Pressure vessel datasheet for Acid Gas Removal System.

A FEA model and Stress analysis of Filter element bulkhead was built and run using the ANSYS 9.0 finite element software.

Pressure load = 0.861875 M.Pa (125 psig) apllied on 76 mm thickness of Bulkhead.

The Max. Local Primary Membrane Stress is 32.8 MPa (4757.25 psig) is created on filter element Bulkhead due to pressure load, this is acceptable as allowable stress = 1.5*137.9 MPa = 206.85 (30000 psi



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