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API 521 FireCase

This document contains information for calculating fire relief loads for pressure vessels including: - Dimensions and properties of an example ellipsoidal vessel - Equations for calculating the wetted surface area, absorbed heat, mass flow rate, and valve capacity needed - Tables with conductivity values for insulated vessels and drainage/firefighting factors - Equations for calculating the surface area of horizontal and spherical vessels

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API 521 FireCase

This document contains information for calculating fire relief loads for pressure vessels including: - Dimensions and properties of an example ellipsoidal vessel - Equations for calculating the wetted surface area, absorbed heat, mass flow rate, and valve capacity needed - Tables with conductivity values for insulated vessels and drainage/firefighting factors - Equations for calculating the surface area of horizontal and spherical vessels

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Fire relief loads.

API 521 "Pressure-relieving and Depressuring Systems"


Tag Execution Height to floor H Diameter D Liquid level F Effective liquid level Feff Length L Type of ends Drainage/Firefighting Factor drainage/firefighting Factor F Type of equipment Wetted surface Aws Total absorbed heat Q Set pressure Latent heat of vaporization hvlo Mass Flow W Total Mass Flow (1) Valve capacity Total Valves Capacity
(1)

0455A-0455B Horizontal 145 610 425 280 2658 Ellipsoidal

mm mm mm mm mm

See API 521 Table 5

With measures 43200 1 m2 2.80 164.8305 4 503.7 281.426 581.426 924.48 1848.96 kW bar kcal/kg kg/h kg/h kg/h kg/h

According [Link].1 According Table 6 WORST CASE

[Link].1 equation (6)

See C_0455A_ARI

Worst case: includes max operating case and fire case

Type of Equipment Bare Vessel Insulated vessel, with insulation conductance values for fire exposure conditions Btu/hr ft2 F 4 2 1 0.67 0.5 0.4 0.33 W/m2 K 22.71 11.36 5.68 3.80 2.84 2.27 1.87

F 1

0.3 0.15 0.075 0.05 0.0376 0.03 0.026

Horizontal elipsoides = L*D*Arccos[(D/2-H)/D/2] + 0.6932*D2*Arccos [( 2.797812897

Esfrico =

With measures Absent Horizontal Vertical Esfrico

Flat end Spherical Ellipsoidal

0.08196721 1.48873705

*D*Arccos[(D/2-H)/D/2] + 0.6932*D2*Arccos [(D/2-H)/D/2]

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