Design of a twill pattern jute fiber composite pressure vessel

Abstract

Pressure Vessels are commonly used equipment that is used in so many applications. From time to time, these vessels are developed in so many manners like material replaceblity, application changes, cost bases, and environmental aspects. Due to the highest demand in the market day by day, the materials of the pressure vessel was changed for reducing weight, improve mechanical properties, cost basis, and lifetime, etc. Nowadays the commonly used materials in composites are Glass, Carbon, and Aramid fibers. Basically in composites, the method used for manufacturing pressure vessels is the Filament winding process. There are so many methods are there like Bag Molding, Hand Lay-up, Open molding, Resin infusion processes, Reaction injection molding (RIM), Vacuum-assisted resin transfer molding (VARTM), etc. In this Paper the Pressure Vessel Was Made up of with Jute fiber twill pattern cloth, Epoxy Resin, and intermediate material was raw jute and the method used for manufacturing is Hand Lay-up technique. Jute is the easily available material and the cost is also less as compared with synthetic fibers. The main advantage of the natural fiber (Jute) is it is easily degradable material. This Pressure vessel was made with the help of the ASME SECTION-X Handbook. As compared to glass fiber Pressure vessel the thickness of jute fiber pressure vessel is high and Burst pressure also 50% less. Compared with glass fiber jute is the cheapest material.