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Work Instruction NL-WI-236-04 1 of 3

Revision & Effective Date:

Nozzle Loads Equipment Revision 0, 01 Sep 2012

Issuing Department: Previous Revision & Effective Date:

Mechanical NL-LEI-WI-236-14

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1 PURPOSE OF WORK INSTRUCTION
This Work Instruction describes the standard approach, criteria and working
methods for piping loads on equipment.
At start of a Project the allowable loads on equipment have to be verified and
agreed upon with piping department, client requirements and/or other special
project applications and confirmed in a job specific document.

2 PROCEDURE
Piping Loads shall be agreed upfront at start of project between disciplines piping
and mechanical.
Attachment I shows the template to be used. This document shall be made
“project specific” by the LE-Mechanical, after agreement with the Pipe stress
engineer.

The Mechanical Engineer shall include the agreed nozzle loads into the
equipment requisitions.
For vendor designed equipment it could be possible that the selected vendor can
not adhere to the agreed nozzle loads as indicated in Attachment I.
The Pipe Stress Engineer will be informed for values which deviate to the agreed
nozzle loads.
The values in this work instruction shall be read by the Mechanical Engineer as
minimum required and by the Pipe Stress Engineer as maximum allowable.

The Pipe Stress Engineer must ascertain that the loads acting on the nozzles are
within the load values given in this work instruction. No further approval is
required in case the listed values are not exceeded. For cases where it is
impossible or impractical to keep the actual loads below these values, the
calculated loads have to be issued to the Mechanical Engineer for his perusal
and approval.

Special attention:
- Revamp activities;
For revamp, actual applied loads and “as is” situation loads shall be verified
this to avoid current specified load is above original design.
- Nozzle sizes < 8” and operating temp of > -50 ºC and < 100 ºC.
See limitations as covered in note 7 of the ES 22700 series nozzle loading
standard.
- Reinforcing;
Allowance of reinforcing shall be agreed and verified that this is correctly
addressed in the requisition and clearly communicated with the bidders
during enquiry stage. By default vendors are calculating with reinforcing and
when reinforcing is not allowed this might lead to calculating with too little
thickness and thus incorrect bid.
- Cyclic loading;
Perform a fatigue analysis for cycling loading.
To check if the nozzle is suitable the peak and through values of pressure or
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 temperature loading and the required number of cycles shall be necessary for
each loading case.
Reinforcing plates are not permitted for:
- Carbon and low alloy steel apparatus with wall thickness >= 38 mm
- Stainless steel apparatus with wall thickness >= 25 mm
- Nozzles <= 2”
- Design temperatures > 400 ºC and < -50 ºC
- Shell side nozzles of shell and tube heat exchangers
- HIC service (Sour service)

3 EQUIPMENT
Reference is made to attachment I.

4 RELATED DOCUMENTATION (REFERENCES)

Document Required Suggested Sample

NL-WI-236-04-f1 Nozzle Loads X
Equipment

Required – Use of this document is mandatory.

Suggested – This document shows required content and a suggested format,
although it may be modified at the discretion of the Project Manager (e.g., the
Project Manager may elect to combine the Project Execution Plan and Project
Procedures Manual in a single document).
Sample – The document is included as an example of one way to implement the
intent of the Work Instruction.

Related Regulations and Jacobs Procedures

Allowable Nozzle Loadings on Cylindrical and Spherical
ES-22701
Shell ASME
Allowable Nozzle Loadings on Cylindrical and Spherical
ES 22702
Shell PD 5500
Allowable Nozzle Loadings on Cylindrical and Spherical
ES 22703
Shell RTOD
Allowable Nozzle Loadings on Cylindrical and Spherical
ES 22704
Shell CODAP

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