All over the world, pressure vessels are being pressed into service beyond their design lifetimes. Advances in machine learning can lead to the deployment of increasingly reliable non-destructive ...

Hydraulic pressure testing has been completed on the reactor pressure vessel for the demonstration CAP1400 unit to be built at Shidaowan in China's Shandong province. Hydraulic pressure testing has ...

Most of the world’s automakers are scrambling to increase fuel efficiency and/or reduce greenhouse-gas emissions ahead of tough regulations that are phasing in between now and 2025. Toward that end, ...

Pressure relief valves (PRVs) are a critical line of defense for pressure vessel protection in the power industry. Generating facilities worldwide depend upon these devices to sense and quickly ...

The reactor pressure vessel for unit 3 at the Xudabao nuclear power plant in China's Liaoning province has successfully completed hydrostatic testing in Russia. The two VVER-1200 reactors that form ...

A pressure vessel that is neither cylindrical nor spherical has been developed by a multinational steel-making company. The scientists have developed a box-type, large size pressure vessel for the ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has achieved a significant milestone, reaching new temperature records for testing materials in high-pressure environments. This image shows nickel alloy samples ...

Seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination depends on membrane systems that serially cleanse water piped onshore from the ocean (see “Composites slake the world's thirst” and “Designing pressure ...

HIC steel is plate which is tested to reduce the effects of hydrogen induced cracking in a wet H 2 S or sour service environment. Features of Hydrogen Induced Cracking (HIC) Steel MASTERHIC is Masteel ...

ATLANTA, May 1, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Open Vessel Testing, a major systems testing milestone, has been completed for Unit 3 at Georgia Power's Vogtle 3 & 4 nuclear expansion project near Waynesboro, ...