Irregular body area
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Irregularities often appear in chemical equipment, such as: How to calculate the areas of non-concentric and variable diameters, the sky is square and the earth is round, etc.? ? Thanks for the advice! ! !
The equipment manufacturer will provide the main parameters of the equipment, but generally does not include the surface area. If it is a heat exchange equipment, it will include the heat exchange area. For the surface area of irregular equipment, you can expand it into several regular-shaped units, and then calculate and superimpose them one by one according to the surface area formula. For more complex ones, the integral formula may be used.
If you draw in 3D software, you can get it directly
You can also stake out first and draw 1: Expanded view of 1, using CAD area query function