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Nuclear power plants are designed, constructed, operated and inspected to prevent pipe ruptures. Despite these preventive measures, plants are designed to mitigate the effects of hypothetical pipe ruptures. The hypothetical ruptures are in the form of leakage cracks and, for high energy lines (operating temperatures in excess of 200 degrees F or operating pressures in […]
Eileen Chant, PhD, PE In January 2011, Becht Engineering completed a Risk-based Equipment Reliability Planning (ERP) Development Project for a 600 MW Natural Gas Combined Cycle Power Plant. The study was conducted during a month long series of meetings with the Becht team, utility management and plant personnel to forward the utility’s stated goal of […]
What Do You Do When There Are No Rules? On July 1, 2019, the 2019 Edition of ASME Section VIII, Division 1 will be published. Among the 117 changes to this Edition will be a revised paragraph U-2(g), and a new Mandatory Appendix 46. The new U-2(g) will read: (g) This Division of Section […]
