Industries
Plants built for baseload are now cycling every day.
Load following shows up as thermal fatigue, support loads and cracked attachments on equipment sized for steady operation. CEI, Finglow and Paulin Research Group keep the original design basis available when a component has to be re-assessed rather than replaced.
From boilers and feedwater heaters to the power piping between them, the same rulebooks govern the equipment — ASME, EN, PD, B31.1 and AWS. Steam cycle equipment, piping systems and outage work each run on different clocks, but one set of design calculations, weld records and analysis sits behind all of them.
Coverage spans conventional, nuclear, wind and tidal generation.
Boilers & steam cycle equipment
Fired and non-fired boilers, feedwater heaters, deaerators, drums and condensers.
Fired & non-fired boilers ASME VIII Div 1 & 2 Section II WRC 107 · 537 · 297
Power piping & connections
High-energy piping, headers, flanged joints, nozzles and supports.
ASME B31.1 B31.3 Piping flexibility Nozzle FEA Flange analysis
Outage & life extension
Turnaround planning, repairs, re-rates and weld documentation under time pressure.
Turnaround planning FFS L1 · L2 · L3 ASME Section IX AWS D1.1 AIV screening
Solutions
One vessel model, one set of code assumptions, still there when the equipment outlives the engineers who specified it.
High-temperature vessel and exchanger design
Section VIII, Div 1 on a continuously updated code library, with Section II allowables at temperature and multiple wind and seismic codes.
Div 1 and Div 2 plus EN 13445, PD 5500 and TEMA, which matters when the feedwater heater or condenser came from a European supplier.
Weld documentation across staff and contractors
PQR, WPS, WPQ and welder continuity documentation with code assistance for ASME Section IX alongside Section I, VIII, B31.1 and B31.3, plus AWS D1.1.
NavWeld, NavNDT and QMSuite for weld procedure management, inspection workflows and QA/QC traceability, with audit documentation held against the job.
Cyclic life and life extension from PRG
Attachment and nozzle FEA per Section VIII, Div 2 on the connections taking the thermal movement the piping cannot absorb.
Flange FEA with ASME B16.5 and B16.47 databases, evaluated against ASME, EN 13445 and PD 5500 stress and leakage methods where a joint keeps failing.
8:00 AM – 9:45 AM: Complete Vessel Creation in Finglow
Speaker: Wayne Batizovszky
Kick off the day with a thorough guide to creating vessels from start to finish using Finglow 3D. Learn how to seamlessly export designs for analysis to Paulin Research Group's NozzlePRO and VesselLink.
10:00 AM – 11:45 AM: Nozzle Loading Methods
Speaker: Wayne Batizovszky
Kick off the day with a thorough guide to creating vessels from start to finish using Finglow 3D. Learn how to seamlessly export designs for analysis to Paulin Rsearch Group's NozzlePRO and VesselLink.
8:00 AM – 9:45 AM: Complete Vessel Creation in Finglow
Speaker: Wayne Batizovszky
Kick off the day with a thorough guide to creating vessels from start to finish using Finglow 3D. Learn how to seamlessly export designs for analysis to Paulin Rsearch Group's NozzlePRO and VesselLink.
10:00 AM – 11:45 AM: Nozzle Loading Methods
Speaker: Wayne Batizovszky
Kick off the day with a thorough guide to creating vessels from start to finish using Finglow 3D. Learn how to seamlessly export designs for analysis to Paulin Rsearch Group's NozzlePRO and VesselLink.
Next step
Tell us what you are designing, welding or trying to run another cycle, and which codes apply. We will walk the workflow on your own geometry and documentation rather than a sample file.
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