IRPC Operations: CCR heater convection section bottom tubesheet design improvements through finite element analysis
9/22/2021
Access Hydrocarbon Processing’s IRPC Operations virtual event! In Session 31: Maintenance and Reliability, Mahesh Kulkarni, Manager—Team Lead, Mechanical, BASF, and M. Subrahmanyam, Manager—Furnace Engineering, Technip Energies, presented a session titled, “CCR heater convection section bottom tubesheet design improvements through finite element analysis,” followed by a Q&A session with the audience.
Subjects discussed include CCR heater geometry, CCR heater convection cast intermediate tubesheet (ITS) configuration, typical failures in cast tubesheets during heater operations), possible causes of tubesheet failures (key design parameters), finite element (FE) analysis model, load cases for FE analysis, dominant load cases for failure, a case study on overstress regions (in tubesheet web and flange), improvements in tubesheet design and geometry, and improved tubesheet design analysis and outcome.
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