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rajkumarabirami
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Design Vacuum = 5 mbar

01/26/2011 2:42 AM

In my client Mechanical data sheet design vacuum is not given but in my previous calculation all are consider 5 mbar for calculation.

my question is,

why we are considering design vacuum = 5 mbar in storage tank design.

how much important as per design point of view.
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Re: design vacuum = 5 mbar

01/26/2011 5:30 AM

http://cr4.globalspec.com/thread/65224/design-vacuum-5-mbar
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Re: Design Vacuum = 5 mbar

01/26/2011 8:51 AM

To answer one of PWSlack's questions in earlier thread, for a storage tank it will be 50mbar vacuum, not 50mbar absolute. Latter would be way OTT.

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