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Information about Plugs and Ferrules Download
Effects of Sleeving Closed Feedwater (PDF, 931KB)
Download Excel Spreadsheets for Feedwater Heater Sleeving Calculations discussed in the April 2004 issue of Power Magazine Pressure
drop calculation with full length sleeves Download Excel Spreadsheets for Calculating Percent Wall Reduction
for Expanded Tube Joints Download Excel Spreadsheet for Calculating Bypass flow and hole size in pass partition for bypassing feedwater flow by means of a hole in the pass partition to be used when the number of plugged tubes causes feedwater pressure drop to reach or exceed the established limit. The calculation used in the spreadsheet below was derived by Stanley Yokell during the writing of ”Tubular Heat Exchanger Inspection, Maintenance and Repair”, by Carl F. Andreone and Stanley Yokell, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1997. MGT wishes gratefully to acknowledge the work and suggestions
of Linda Riley of Kansas City Power and Light Company (Great Plains
Energy) that made the presentation clearer and more understandable. Note: The above downloads require a recent version of MS Excel software on your PC. |
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MGT Network News: Apr 25, 2008On May 5th, 2008 MGT Inc. will be relocating. Our new address will be: Unit F201, The Academy, 970 Aurora Avenue, Boulder, CO 80302. The moving process will take a few days and we will not occupy our new premises until May 8th. During the move of our telephones, please call on my cellphone, 303 817 1721 if you cannot contact us at the usual number. Our fax phone number will be inactivated from May 5th to May 8th. During the interim we will have access to email. Our telephone, fax and email numbers will remain unchanged
Chemical Engineering Magazine has published Stanley Yokell’s article, “Maintaining and Repairing Heat Exchanger Tubes” in the March 2008 issue. Details of what is in the article are available on his professional blog at http://syokellpefasme.blogspot.com/.
ASME has provided a limited number of reprints of Stanley Yokell’s paper, “Hybrid Expanding Revisited”, published in the August issue of the Transactions of the ASME. We will provide these reprints on a first come, first served basis.
We note with pleasure, Walter J. Sperko’s recent election to Fellow Grade of the ASME. Congratulations to Walter. Stanley Yokell’s Technical Brief, “Note on Feedwater Heater tube Joints” has been published in the May 2007 Special Issue Developed by the PVP Design and Analysis Committee of the Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology part of the Transactions of the ASME. Stanley Yokell’s Paper, “Hybrid Expanding Revisited” has been rescheduled for publication in the November 2007 Issue of the Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology.
Chemical Engineering has published Stanley Yokell’s article, “Tube-to-Tubesheet Joint Tightness” in the March 2007 issue.
We’ve added 2 new downloadable Excel spreadsheets: Percent wall reduction calculations Flow bypass and hole sizing calculations These links are permanently available on the left side, near the top of the MGT homepage. The Flow Bypass spreadsheet was updated on 3/10/06.
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