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Horizontal Vessel Slope Requirment

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Can anybody advise a value for sople of horizontal vessel.

I have seen different values from 1:100 to 1:500.
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Is there any criteria for selecting slope? Senior Specialty Process Engineer at Fluor

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Alireza Rashidkhani
Senior Process Engineer at Aker Solutions

What I have seen is 1:100 but beware of corrosion at the end of the slope due to stagnant liquid
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Deepak Goyal (AMIChemE)

Senior Process Engineer at Technip

One of company guideline suggest to slope horizontal vessels 1 inch in

Deepak 10 feet down towards the outlet or low point drain so that the vessel
may be completely drained during shutdown. This slope is equivalent to
a slope of 1:120.

In my view minimum slope should be around 1;200 .

1: 500 is too low for a vessel becaus this cant ensure gravity draining specially if liquid is viscous
and having sand etc .
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- For storage tanks designed as per API-650, the furnished tank grade shall be sloped towards
sump at a slope of 1:120 unless otherwise specified by the Owner.
- For horizontal vessels with boot, slope of 1:100 to 1:200 (for vessel longer than 10m) has been About Feedback Privacy & Terms
proposed. Slope less than 1:200 is not normally used.
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- For other cases, no slope is practically required.

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