Design of Pressure Vessels and Boilers

With over 20 years of proven experience in designing pressure vessels and boilers, DVF Consulting offers customized designs for clients across all industries worldwide. We provide design assistance for key equipment in power stations, refineries, gas processing plants, and petrochemical plants.

Our range of equipment covers a wide variety of items, including water-tube and fire-tube boilers, Heat Recovery Steam Generators (HRSGs), integrated and external de-aerators, high-pressure boiler drums, various types of heat exchangers, horizontal pressure vessels, and large vertical process columns for companies of all sizes and fields of businesses.

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We have extensive experience and expertise in delivering pressure equipment design in compliance with a vast range of Australian and international design standards and codes, including but not limited to:

  • AS 1210 Pressure vessels
  • AS 1228 Pressure equipment – Boilers
  • AS 2030.1 Gas cylinders
  • ASME B&PV Section I Rules for construction of power boilers
  • ASME B&PV Section VIII Division 1 and 2 Rules for construction of pressure vessels
  • TEMA Tubular Exchangers Manufacturers Association
  • GB 150 Pressure vessels
  • PD 5500 Specification for unfired fusion welded pressure vessels
  • EN 13455 Unfired Pressure vessels
  • ADG Code Pressure vessels – Transport of dangerous goods
  • AD 2000 Merkblatt Design of pressure vessels

The following loadings could be considered in the design of pressure equipment:

  • Internal and external design pressure and temperature
  • Weight of vessel (operation and test)
  • Local stresses at lugs, legs, saddles, girders, supports and nozzles due to the loads from connected piping
  • Fatigue strength of the vessel or component
  • Environmental loads (i.e. seismic and wind) in accordance with AS/NZS 1170 series Structural design actions and international standards
  • Superimposed static reactions from weight of attached equipment
  • Sloshing analysis
  • Transportation loads