Category Archives: News
TROUBLESHOOTING SUBCOOLER PROBLEMS IN CLOSED FEEDWATER HEATERS
A new Technical Tips on troubleshooting Subcooler problems in closed feedwater heaters has been published on this site. Viewers can also see the text of the new Technical Tips on Stan Yokell’s Professional Blog at http://syokellpefasme.blogspot.com/
Mechanical Aspects of Power Plant Auxiliary Heat Exchangers and Closed Feedwater Heaters
The Power Point presentation of Power Plant Auxiliary Heat Exchangers and Closed Feedwater Heaters – Mechanical Aspects is now available for purchase. This course has been presented in-plant at a seminar for nuclear plant engineers. Purchasers will receive a CD … Continue reading
The 2009 Edition of the MGT Closed Feedwater Heater Suite is now Available
The updated version of the MGT Inc. Closed Feedwater Suite is now available. The suite consists of an MSWord Generic Procurement Specification for procuring new and replacement closed feedwater heaters and replacement bundles, PDF versions of Guide to Plugging Feedwater … Continue reading
ON HYDROSTATIC TESTING HEAT EXCHANGERS
Stanley Yokell has submitted his paper, “On Hydrostatic Testing Heat Exchangers” to the Journal of Pressure Technology. The ASME has assigned PVT-8-1122 to the paper during consideration of acceptance and peer review if accepted for publication. Here is the abstract. … Continue reading
Stanley Yokell’s Article, Maintaining and Repairing Heat Exchanger Tubes Published
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/.
Availability of copies of Hybrid Expansion Revisited
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.
Stan papers info
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 … Continue reading
Update on tube-to-tubesheet joint tightness
Chemical Engineering has published Stanley Yokell’s article, “Tube-to-Tubesheet Joint Tightness” in the March 2007 issue.
New downloads
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 … Continue reading