Guide to European Pressure Equipment (European Guide Series (REP)) [Paperback]

This book provides sensible, practical assistance on pressure equipment.

European Pressure Equipment has been written using the day–to–day practical experience of pressure vessel users, manufacturers and suppliers for specifiers, and users of pressure equipment.  It has been compiled to provide practical information about all aspects of design, selection and use.  The book is aimed at everyone who has technical problems as well as those wanting to know more about pressure equipment and the Pressure Equipment Directive (PED), and also those who want to know who supplies what, and from where in Europe.

Aimed at users of pressure vessels in industries such as the power, oil, petrochemical, chemical, pharmaceutical, food, utility and other industries, and also those involved in the specifying and purchasing of pressure vessels and ancillary equipment.  The book will of course be of considerable use to designers and manufacturers.

Content include:

• General
• Legislation and standards
• Specification of pressure vessels
• Design
• Manufacture
• Inspection and testing
• Installation, maintenance and in–service inspection
• Units and conversions and materials data
• Useful terms translated
• Classification guide to manufacturers and suppliers
• Reference index

Simon Earland Simon Earland is Managing Director of Earland Engineering Ltd, a private company providing specialist consultancy services in pressure vessel and heat exchanger mechanical design and analysis. Simon has considerable experience in the contracting industry having spent some 13 years working with major companies such as Humphreys and Glasgow, Badger, Procon and Shell Expro. Thereafter, he joined Finglow Ltd, a prominent UK supplier of pressure vessel design software, where as Technical Director, he was responsible for quality assurance, software testing and for providing consultancy services to clients. In addition he developed and presented training courses on pressure vessel design, and produced the technical reference manuals for Finglow Pressure Vessel Software. Since 1988, Simon has been a lecturer on short courses in pressure vessel design at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He is an Associate Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and Treasurer of the Heat Transfer Society. He presently serves as a member of the BSI sub-committee PVE/1/15 which is responsible for the design methods in PD 5500 -Specification for Unfired to Fusion Welded Pressure Vessels and a member of the Pressure Systems Group committee of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. David Nash Dr David Nash is a Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. After spending several years with a vessel fabricator, David joined the Department as a researcher where he gained an MSc and PhD working on local load and saddle support contact problems. His particular interests lie in the design and analysis of pressure equipment, including the use of finite element analysis. He has co-written and organised a suite of pressure equipment design courses for industry, in conjunction with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and these have been run on an annual basis in the UK and overseas since 1986. David is a Chartered Engineer and has been an ASME member since 1987. He is presently a Vice-Chairman of the Pressure Systems Group of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and is the current UK national representative to EPERC, the European Pressure Equipment Research Council. He serves on CEN TC74/WG 10 and BSI sub-committee PVE/1/15 as a corresponding member. Bill Garden Bill Garden trained as a metallurgist at Babcock & Wilcox in the 1970s. He moved into the area of welding engineering with Motherwell Bridge Thermal Ltd and thereafter with Munro & Miller Ltd. He returned to Motherwell Bridge and achieved his present position as Chief Welding Engineer in 1990. Bill has considerable experience in welding technology for a range of products which includes process pressure vessels, spherical and conventional storage tanks, gasholders, shell and tube heat exchangers, pipe work, cranes, hydraulic presses and mechanical handling equipment. He heads up the Welding Engineering Section, in the Motherwell Bridge Group, which is responsible for all welding engineering including specification of processes, procedures, welder and procedure qualifications. Bill is a Chartered Engineer, a member of the Institute of Materials and a Fellow of the Welding Institute and is also a member of the Pressure Systems Group committee of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.