Wall thickness issue
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Hello everyone: A beginner has a question. When calculating the wall thickness of a horizontal container, such a formula is used: Thickness = Pc * Di / (2t * φ – Pc) + C. Since it’s a horizontal tank, this formula does not include any data related to the material stored inside. Does that mean that the amount of material inside doesn’t affect the wall thickness of the container?
Unless the diameter is very large, the medium density is extremely high, and the design pressure is very low, it can be ignored.
The PC includes the pressure of the medium. The weight of the medium is taken into account in the saddle calculation
Only the design pressure is considered, not the static pressure of the medium! Only tower-type containers take those other loads into consideration! ! Generally, rounding off the data is sufficient!
PC stands for calculated pressure, which refers to the pressure obtained by taking into account various loads such as the design pressure and the static pressure of the medium. If your medium has a high density and the equipment diameter is large, and the static pressure exceeds 5% of the design pressure, then you need to take the static pressure into consideration. If it is not greater than, then PC = P design pressure is sufficient