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Our Engineering Team provides innovative solutions to challenges facing the power generation, food processing, chemical processing, and nuclear industries. We provide a unique blend of talent and experience that has enabled us to create cost-saving solutions that affect initial heat exchanger design, throughout manufacturing, and into long term maintenance.

Application Data Sheets

Resources

Hydraulic Expansion Groove Formula (excerpt from Appropriate Correlations for Assessing Expanded Tube-to-Tubesheet Joint Strength by Stanley Yokell)
Appropriate Correlations for Assessing Expanded Tube-to-Tubesheet Joint Strength - by Stanley Yokell
Residual Stresses in Transition Zones of Heat Exchanger Tubes - by D.P. Updike, A. Kalnins, and S.M. Caldwell
The Holding Power and Hydraulic Tightness of Expanded Tube Joints: Analysis of the Stress and Deformation - by J.N. Goodier and G.J. Schoessow
Expanded, and Welded-and-Expanded Tube-to-Tubesheet Joints - by Stanley Yokell
Elastic-Plastic Analysis of Tube Expansion in Tubesheets - by B. Kasraie, J.S. Porowski, W.J. O'Donnell, and A. Selz
Contact Pressure in Rolled Tube-to-Tubesheet Joints - by Arturs Kalnins, Dean P. Updike, and S. M. Caldwell
Hydraulically Expanded Tube-to-Tubesheet Joints - by D.A. Scott, G.A. Wolgemuth, and J.A. Aikin
Analysis of Tube-to-Tubesheet Joints with Grooves - by D. P. Updike, A. Kalnins, and S. M. Caldwell
Get More Life Out Of Heat Exchangers - by Stanley Yokell
Thermal Effects of Sleeving Feedwater Heaters (xls file) - by MGT, Inc.
Pressure Drop Calculation with Full Length Sleeves (xls file) - by MGT, Inc.
Pressure Drop Calculation with Short Sleeves (xls file) - by MGT, Inc.
Flow Bypass and Hole Sizing Calculations (xls file) - by MGT, Inc.

* Tube Removal and Cleaning are not available as a stand-alone service and will be evaluated on a case by case basis.