Types of Pressure Vessels

• Storage Vessels
• Heat Exchangers
• Boilers
• Process Vessels

Storage Vessels

For industrial uses, storage tanks are used to hold liquids and gases. The vessel may be used to store finished goods like compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquid nitrogen or to contain fluids in a subsequent operation. The most typical material for storage tanks is carbon steel.

Heat Exchangers

Heat is transferred between two or more fluids using heat exchangers. In the food, pharmaceutical, energy, and bioprocessing industries, they are frequently employed. The temperature, flow, and thermal properties of the fluids engaged in heat exchange, as well as the thermal property of the conductive partition, all affect how heat exchanger equipment functions. The temperature difference between the hot and cold fluids, as well as the internal pressure holding the fluids, both put stress on the materials in a heat exchanger.

Boilers

Boilers are equipment devices for heat transfer that use fuel, nuclear, or electrical energy as heat sources. Typically, they consist of a vessel that is enclosed and that permits heat to flow from the source to the fluid. They are mostly employed to warm liquids. Inside the boiler, fluid frequently transitions from the liquid to the vapor phase. The vapor that the boiler produces is employed in power generation as well as numerous heating applications.

Process Vessels

Pressure vessels can be broadly categorized as process vessels. These are the equipment used for industrial processes such as mixing and agitation, decantation, distillation and mass separation, and chemical reaction. The nature of the process being used and how the substances being processed vary determine how much internal pressure changes in a process vessel.