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 with the Power Point presentation and the complete set of course notes in PDF format.
Price: US$390
Payment by Check or Purchase order only. Credit Cards are not accepted.
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 Heaters, Specification for Performing Feedwater Heater Autopsies and Xcel Spreadsheets for estimating the thermal and pressure drop effects of sleeving feedwater heater tubes.
The current price is $325 plus shipping and handling. Orders will be shipped within two business days.Payment by check only.
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.
ABSTRACT
This paper discusses the requirements of Section VIII Division 1 of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (the Code) for hydrostatically testing shell-and-tube heat exchangers. It uses an approximate calculation method to delmostrate that the common practice of using pressure gage indications of pressure loss to determine if there is a leak from the tube side to the shell side when the back face of the tubesheet is not visible is flawed and does not meet the basic no-leak requirement of the Code.
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.
