NEW COMMON DESIGN RULES FOR U-TUBE HEAT-EXCHANGERS IN ASME, CODAP and UPV CODES.pdfVIP

EXTENDED VERSION - Rev. 11 (1 September 2002) Presentation of a paper at the 2002 PVP CONFERENCE Session Codes Standards VANCOUVER (August 4-8, 2002) AUTHOR : Francis OSWEILLER COMPANY : CETIM 52 avenue Félix Louat - BP 80067 60304 SENLIS Cedex - FRANCE TITRE : NEW COMMON DESIGN RULES FOR U-TUBE HEAT-EXCHANGERS IN ASME, CODAP and UPV CODES - 2 - ABSTRACT In year 2000, ASME Code (Section VIII – Div. 1), CODAP (French Code) and UPV (European Code for Unfired Pressure Vessels) have adopted the same rules for the design of U-tube tubesheet heat exchangers. Three different rules are proposed, based on different technical basis, to cover : ? Tubesheet gasketed with shell and channel ? Tubesheet integral with shell and channel ? Tubesheet integral with shell and gasketed with channel or the reverse. At the initiative of the author, a more refined technical approach has been developed, to cover all tubesheet configurations. The paper explains the rationale for this new design rule which is being incorporated in ASME, CODAP and UPV in 2002. This is substantiated with comparisons to TEMA Standards and a benchmark of numerical comparisons. I – INTRODUCTION In 1992 ASME and CODAP decided to reconcile their design rules devoted to tubesheet heat- exchangers. This reconciliation has been extended to the draft European Standard for Unfired Pressure Vessel (UPV), as CEN/TC54 decided in 1993 to adopt CODAP tubesheet design rules. This reconciliation covers both the analytical aspect (same theoretical basis) and the editorial aspect (same notations, same tubesheet configurations, same design loading cases, same structure and presentation of the rules). For more details see paper from F. OSWEILLER (2000). This reconciliation applies to the three types of heat-exchangers : ? Fixed tubesheet heat-exchangers : ASME and CODAP use the same analytical approach, but CODAP ignores the unperforated tubesheet ri