Pressure Vessels

Sustainability

Designing pressure vessels for seawater desalination plants

Safe high-pressure service challenges manufacturers of composite pressure vessels.

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Pipes vs. vessels

CT editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan notes the value of composite pressure vessel standards in the growing market for seawater desalination.

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Aerospace

The first commercial Type V composite pressure vessel

Composites Technology Development's first commercial tank in the Type V category presages growth of filament winding in storage of compressed gases.

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Pressure vessel tank types

Pressure vessels have been classified in four categories, based on their construction. Each type has assets and liabilities.

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Sustainability

The outlook for composite pressure vessels

Environmental and economic pressures continue to drive growth in the market for composite pressure vessels used in personal and public transportation applications.

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ATL/AFP

Towpreg Proves Cost-competitive For Wound Pressure Vessels

Design group's new winding option streamlines new pressure vessel development.

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ATL/AFP

Design Issues

    Typical FRP pipe is reciprocally filament wound with a fiber angle of ±54.75° relative to the longitudinal (0°) axis. This architecture satisfies stress loads in both the circumferential (hoop) and longitudinal (axial) directions for most pipes and pressure vessels. It withstands the in-use pressure, ther

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Glass Fibers

Composite Accumulator Bottles Perform In Service

    A riser tensioning system for a TLP consists of a tensioning ring and framework, with four to eight hydraulic cylinders — each with an attached pressure vessel or “accumulator bottle” — to support and allow movement of the rigid riser pipe. Installed in the riser wellbay, this primary structural system is desi

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microwire technology for composites