PV Elite (Pressure vessel design & Analysis) software package is an engineering tool used in

the mechanical design, analysis & evaluation of vessel and heat exchanger. PV Elite is
comprehensive program for the complete structural design or analysis of tall towers and
horizontal vessels according to latest standards from ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code,
PD 5500 (British Code), UBC, EN-13445, API-579 and the Welding Research Council.

Element types include cylindrical shells; elliptical, spherical, torispherical, conical and flat heads;
conical sections (including knuckles); body flanges; and skirts with base ring details. The
program provides base ring, saddle, leg and lug design and also includes modules for analyzing
vessel components such as nozzles, flanges, base ring and other vessel components.

COURSE OUTLINES

KEY TOPICS COVERED

 Introduction to PV-Elite, basic modelling (horizontal vessel, vertical tower), materials.

 Comparison code criteria, USA, UK and Europe.
 Convert ASME VII design to EN 13445
 Loads analysis to WRC 107
 Local stress analysis using Code Calc
 Dealing with fatigue
 Legs, lugs and jackets
 Fitness for purpose exercises according to API 579
 Composite Vessel design
 Heat exchanger with fixed tube sheet
 Heat exchanger with submerged floating head
 Heat exchanger with U-tube bundle

Basic Vessel Components & Analysis

 Internal pressure on cylinders and heads

 External pressure on cylinders and heads
 Nozzle reinforcement and weld strength
 Cones and Conical sections
 Spherically dished covers
 Brittle fracture requirements on carbon steels

Additional Vessel Components & Analysis

 Weld neck, slip-on, and ring flanges

 Blind flanges and flat heads
 Tube sheets, including the TEMA fixed tube sheet requirements
 Flanged and fluid and metal bellows expansion joints
 Stresses in shells due to loads on attachments
 Rectangular vessels

Tall Vertical Vessels & Vessel Supports

 Wind and earthquake loads

 Load combinations
 Skirt and base ring design
 Legs and support lugs
 Horizontal vessels on saddle supports
 Introduction to ASME Section 8 and divisions
 Scope of work and design
 General requirements about materials, design, components, fabrication, inspection and tests (UG Parts)
 Welding requirements of pressure vessels(UW Parts)
 Requirements for pressure vessels constructed of carbon, low and high alloy steels (UCS and UHA Parts)
 PVElite software introduction
 Horizontal & vertical vessels design using PV-Elite
 Support design (Saddle, Lug, Leg and Skirt) using PV-Elite
 External pressure & stiffening ring design using PV-Elite
 Wind & seismic design using PV-Elite
 Introduction to Nozzle Pro software