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    HP A ND Ab: Agitated Vessels

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    This document discusses different types of agitator mounting configurations for vessels, including nozzle-supported and frame-mounted agitators. It also covers important design considerations like ensuring proper alignment and limiting deflection. The maximum expected pressures on vessels from agitators are also outlined.

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    This document discusses different types of agitator mounting configurations for vessels, including nozzle-supported and frame-mounted agitators. It also covers important design considerations like ensuring proper alignment and limiting deflection. The maximum expected pressures on vessels from agitators are also outlined.

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    This document discusses different types of agitator mounting configurations for vessels, including nozzle-supported and frame-mounted agitators. It also covers important design considerations like ensuring proper alignment and limiting deflection. The maximum expected pressures on vessels from agitators are also outlined.

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    AGITATED VESSELS

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    bending moment. Because of this, the tolerances used guiar load distribution is conservative. The maximurn
    during fabrication of the vessel can have more inftuence pressure in this case would be twice the pre!Sure in a
    on design than any other single factor. It is important uniform load, and, assuming that four baffies are used,
    that mounting flanges be installed with extra care in can be found from:
    order to ensure that the flange centerline coincides with
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    the tank centerline and that the flange face is perpen- pbma:r = . A Nd [4]
    dicular to the axis of the vessel. :. b
    When mounting an agitator on a: steel supporting where Ab is the projected baffie area, in. 2 and d is the
    frame, allowances should be rnade for horizontal align- · tank dia., in. Designing for this pressure acting on the
    ment, and the unit should be shimmed so that the shaft projected area of the baffle ensures adequate design.
    will align with the axis of the vessel. During agitation, a continuous radial load is experi-. 'l

    Intentional off-centering or angular orientation for enced by the tank wall. The maximum pressure (near
    the purpose of random agitation wirhout the aid of in- the lower tangent line) will generally be no larger than
    terna! baffiing should be treated as a special design situ- 0.02 psi. An agitator will ·also contribute a Jocalized,
    ation. \Vhen this type of installation is used, the de- randomly fluctuating pressure pf as m u eh as± 1 psi.
    signer should contact the agitator manufacturer for an With respect to the design of FRP tanks, only two
    estímate of the expected maximum shaft bending-
    types of agitator mountings will be discussed: the noz-
    mornent.
    zle-supported agitator and the frame-mounted agitator
    The agitator shaft and drive are subjected to vertical supported by the tan k sidewall. An example of the noz-
    forces. The principal vertical force is the weight of the zle-supported agitator can be found in Fig. 5, and the
    shaft and impeller, Fw. In high-pressure applications, frame-mounted agitator supported by the tank wall in .
    the upward thrust, FP, acts on the bearings in the agita-· Fig. 3.
    tor drive. A pitched-blade or axial-flow irnpeller nor- When designing a support of any kind to hold an
    mally pumps downward and generates an upward agitator, it is essential to limit deflection at the impeller
    thrust, F1• As mentioned above, the forces FP and F1 to %in./ft of shaft extension. \Vith a nozzle-suppor~ed
    generally are not significant. · ·
    agitator, any fiexure of the tank head, due to bendmg
    mornent, will result in an angular deflection of the im-
    ·'-Agitator loadings on vessels peller shaft. This sarne type of deflection can occur on
    Irrespective of the type of mounting, the radial and frarne-mounted units supported by the sidewall Frames
    tangential loads applied to the baffies and sidewall are should be designed to lirnit this angular deflection; the
    essentially the same for identical irnpellers rotating at techniques and data for frame design are wdl known.
    the same speed. For an axial-fiow irnpeller, the baffle The methods for designing FRP tanks to support
    loading distribution is minimal ar the tüp and increases frame-mounted units, however, are not well known and
    to a ma.x:imum at the bottom. An assumption of trian- will be discussed in further sections.

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