Design & Finite Element Analysis of Pressure Vessel

Abstract

Abstract: This document - Pressure vessels are of immense importance in most of the industries today & are drastically used in many fields such as chemical, petroleum, military industries as well as in nuclear power plants. Catastrophic accidents can occur due to rupture of pressure & as a result they should be designed & analysed with immense care & precision. The exact estimation of stresses due to the applied mechanical & thermal loads are the common problems faced by any engineer while designing the vessel. This paper aims to design of pressure vessel using ASME Code Book, accordingly model the vessel in Solidworks & carrying out the finite element analysis for the Pressure vessel using ANSYS. The critical parameters of pressure vessel that are taken into account includes internal pressure, seismic, wind loads & operational loadings. The paper focuses upon the design of thin walled pressure vessel particularly a tall vessel where the vessel is designed using manual calculations & performed FEA to determine the stress in the vessel due to multiple loadings. It consists of design of thin walled pressure vessel made up of homogeneous material where the stresses are plotted along with the contour plots & have verified the FEA results with the analytical solution.