Custom ASME Pressure Vessels

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Artisan has 90 years of experience designing process equipment and custom ASME pressure vessels.

Our key strength is our fully integrated engineering and manufacturing teams.

From high-pressure custom ASME pressure vessels and reactors to chemical handling equipment, we have created custom equipment and system solutions for virtually all industries, including chemical, oil refineries, food/dairy, pharmaceutical, biodiesel, and nuclear.

Comprehensive Engineering Expertise

Artisan’s qualified mechanical engineering staff, including several licensed professional engineers, ensure that every pressure vessel is designed with the following considerations:

ASME Division 1
Specialty alloys
Shell buckling
Fatigue design
Strain gage and burst testing for proof of non-standard designs
Special loading conditions requiring non-standard calculations
High temperature design
Lethal service vessels
Special static and dynamic seals
Thermal stress and strain
Large columns with wind and seismic specifications
Quick-actuating closures
Dimpled, half-pipe, and baffled jackets using steam or liquid
Low cycle fatigue

Adherence to Standards

Artisan designs and builds equipment in compliance with a broad array of standards, ensuring safety, reliability, and regulatory conformity:

Hazardous Area electrical specifications
API specifications and compliant equipment
Non-standard structural and shell design, certification and testing
OSHA standard machinery guarding and design
3A and BPe standard compliant designs
FDA documented systems and equipment
EU Machinery Directive compliant designs

Customization

Artisan adopts an engineered-to-order approach, providing complete fabrication and machining capabilities under one roof. From the initial concept—whether a datasheet or a hand sketch—we deliver custom vessels that meet ASME and/or applicable code requirements:

Carbon Steel, Stainless Steel, Titanium, and High Alloy Steels

Our certifications include:

ASME Sec VIII Div I
Pressure Equipment Directive (PED)
China License
CRN

Sample Custom Pressure Vessels

100 sq. ft. Rototherm®

These 100 sq.ft. Rototherm®’s were shipped to South Korea and met all local codes and standards. Similar designs have been checked for low cycle fatigue, thermal stress and special connection geometry, and all non-routine applications of the ASME pressure vessel code.

70-foot Separation Column

Artisan designed this 70-foot column for use in separating solvents. The design required integrating the customer’s nozzle loads with external loading on the column’s connections. Shell section material weight was also minimized using external pressure reinforcing rings that doubled as insulation supports.

45-foot Separation Column

This 45-foot column was designed to limit heat lost through a separation process using clamp-on steam jackets. The temporary saddles shown were constructed and attached for testing, shipping, and installation.