Pressure Vessel Manufacturers Spotlight on Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger in Charlotte

Pressure vessel manufacturer Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger has a long history of designing and manufacturing custom pressure vessels.  With Bendel’s years of experience, we have built a vast array of Pressure Vessels & Reactors with wall thickness exceeding 1″, diameters up to 15 feet, and weighing up to 70 tons. Due to the many different industries we serve, our experience in design and fabrication of Pressure Vessels & Reactors is immense.

Pressure Vessel Manufacturing Overview

Pressure vessels are used to store and transmit liquids, vapors and gases under pressure in general. The pressure of these finds will expert pressure equally in all direction on the walls and ends of the pressure vessels. Because of the internal loading, stresses are induced on certain sections of the cylinder walls.

Pressure vessels are generally used in engineering practice to store fluid, i.e. liquid vapors and gas under pressure.  And there are basically two main types of pressure vessels:  either according to the open/close of the end or to the dimensions.

According to end construction, the pressure vessels may be of open end or closed end. A simplecylinder with a piston is an example of open-end or whereas a tank is an example of closed end vessel. Due to the fluid pressure circumferential or hoop stresses are induced in case of open-ended vessels where as longitudinal stresses in addition to circumferential stresses are induced in case of closed ended vessels.

According to dimensions pressure vessels may be of thin shell or thick shell. The deciding factor among thin and thick shells is its wall thickness an shell diameter. If the ration is less than 1/10 it is said to be a thick shell. Thin shells are used in boilers tanks and pipes whereas thick shells are used in high pressure cylinders, tanks , gun barrels etc.

Bendel Pressure Vessel Uses in Industry

Bendel pressure vessels are used in many industries to store fluids under pressure.  Major uses of industry pressure vessels include:

• Steam boiler
• Storage of chemicals
• Storage of petroleum products
• Engine cylinders

To find out more about our specific manufacturing products, please call Jim Rozsa rozsa@bendelcorp.com or Vince Petrucci petrucci@bendelcorp.com at Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger headquarters in Charlotte, NC at 866-596-5112.  Or if you are in TX, AR, LA or OK and the Gulf Coast, please call our regional sales manager Fred Weissbach in Houston at 832-436-4626 or email weissbach@bendelcorp.com.  We look forward to serving you soon from Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger.

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Pressure Vessel Manufacturer Bendel Has Long History of Pressure Vessel Fabrications

Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger’s history traces back to our start in 1963.  And the manufacturing of pressure vessels has played a large part of our company’s growth and success.

All Bendel Pressure Vessels and Reactors are designed and fabricated in strict accordance with ASME (Section VIII, Division I).

Pressure vessels are used in a variety of applications in both industry and the private sector. They appear in these sectors as industrial compressed air receivers and domestic hot water storage tanks. Other examples of pressure vessels are diving cylinder, recompression chamber, distillation towers, autoclaves, and many other vessels in mining or oil refineries and petrochemical plants, nuclear reactor vessel, habitat of a space ship, habitat of a submarine, pneumatic reservoir, hydraulic reservoir under pressure, rail vehicle airbrake reservoir, road vehicle airbrake reservoir and storage vessels for liquefied gases such as ammonia, chlorine, propane, butane, and LPG.

Bendel manufacturers ASME pressure vessels from Carbon Steel, Stainless Steel or Nickel Alloy materials.

With Bendel’s years of experience, we have built a vast array of Pressure Vessels & Reactors with wall thickness exceeding 1″, diameters up to 15 feet and weighing up to 70 tons. Due to the many different industries we serve, our experience in design and fabrication of Pressure Vessels & Reactors is immense.

All Bendel welders are required to pass stringent performance requirements per ASME Section IX prior to welding on any Vessel or Reactor.

If you would like to have information about Bendel custom pressure vessel manufacturing, please call Jim Rozsa rozsa@bendelcorp.com or Vince Petrucci petrucci@bendelcorp.com at Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger headquarters in Charlotte, NC at 866-596-5112. Or if you are in TX, AR, LA or OK, please call our regional sales manager Fred Weissbach in Houston at 832-436-4626 or email weissbach@bendelcorp.com.

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Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger Expands into Houston, TX with Fred Weissbach

Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger has expanded deeper into the Southern USA to service customers in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Arkansas.  To strengthen the Bendel brand and product line into this region, we are introducing our new regional sales manager for these states, Fred Weissbach.  Fred will be headquartered in Houston, TX.

Bendel has a long-standing reputation across the country and the south and southeast states are very important to our business.  “We are strengthening our presence with new and existing customers in the petroleum and chemical industries in these states,” said Fred Weissbach.  “Our sales and marketing emphasis will extend into these states with our heat exchanger product line, as well as our traditional storage tank and pressure vessel products.”

Fred Weissbach can be reached at 832-436-4626 (office) or 832-704-0806 (cell) and his email address is weissbach@bendelcorp.com.

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Storage Tank Manufacturer with Custom Fabricated Jackets

Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger has manufactured storage tanks and storage tank jackets since 1962.  That is 49 years of storage tank manufacturing experience. 

Tank jackets are used to heat and cool the contents of a storage tank or pressure vessel.  That’s the simple definition of a tank jacket.  A jacket is a cavity external to the vessel that permits the uniform exchange of heat between the fluid circulating in it and the walls of the vessel.  Jacketed vessels can be employed as chemical reactors (to remove the elevated heat of reaction) or to reduce the viscosity of high viscous fluids (such as tar).  Agitation can be also used in jacketed vessels to improve the homogeneity of the fluid properties (such as temperature or concentration).

Dimple Jackets (sometimes called Plate Coils)

Internal Coils

Half-pipe Jackets

Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger customizes all types of tank jackets for every unique need.  Please contact Bendel at 866-596-5112, or use our Contact Form here, or email us at sales@bendelcorp.com.  We look forward to serving your unique storage tank and pressure vessel jacket requirements.

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Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger Hires New Production Manager

Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger is pleased to announce the arrival of Randall Beatty as the new Production Manager at Bendel.  Randall brings many years of successful production, resource and team management experience in our field to Bendel and we are very excited to have somebody of his caliber on our team!

As the new production manager at Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger, Randall is responsible for managing all of the Bendel resources in our fabrication and manufacturing facility.  Randall keeps our many client projects on track, on time and on budget!  He is an integral part of the overall management team at Bendel and our clients will appreciate his experience at keeping projects on schedule and the quality and standards high.  Again, please join us in welcoming Randall Beatty to the Bendel team!

If your company would like to receive a quote on storage tank, heat exchanger, or pressure vessel fabrication, please contact Bendel at 866-596-5112 or email Vince Petrucci or Vivek Patel at Bendel.  We look forward to talking with you soon!

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Pressure Vessel Manufacturing & Fabrication Leaders to Meet at PVMA in Fall 2011

Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger enjoys keeping our customers and website visitors up-to-date on key industry events and meetings as they pertain to storage tank, pressure vessel and heat exchanger fabrication and manufacture organizations.  This particular post is an update on the PVMA Fall 2011 meeting in Columbus, OH, September 26-27, 2011.

Regularly scheduled PVMA meetings serve as a focal point for programs and activities. PVMA meets at least two times each year. The annual meeting, usually held in March, blends three days of business and leisure activities at a resort location. A one-day business meeting is held in September.

Regular business is the focus of each meeting. Business is conducted by committees and special interest groups. All members have an opportunity to participate. The committees and groups address the issues, discuss industry matters and recommend direction for the Association.

There are two key working groups: The Technical and Code Issues Group, and the Member Services Committee which addresses membership growth and benefit issues.

Besides regular business matters, meetings often include informative programs on topics of specific importance to member representatives.

PVMA Fall Meeting – September 26-27, 2011
National Board Training and Conference Center – Columbus, OH

In addition to PVMA meetings, the Association is well represented by members and its technical consultant at meetings of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, held four times each year. For further information on upcoming meetings, please contact the association headquarters in Chicago. (630) 942-6590 or info@pvma.org.

If your company would like information about our pressure vessel fabrication and manufacturing program at Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger, please call us at 866-596-5112 or contact  Vince Petrucci or Vivek Patel at Bendel.

 

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Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger Launches New Company Name and Creative Brand

Bendel announced today that our company is launching a new name and a new creative brand as we move into the second decade of 2000!

“Our new company brand name will be known as Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger,” said Bendel president Bill Beaver.  “Bendel has quickly grown to be known as a premier designer and fabricator of heat exchangers, and we needed to make a market adjustment to reflect our growing customer demand.”

Bendel began manufacturing carbon steel tanks in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1963 under the name of Atlas Steel Products Company. The name was changed to Bendel Corporation in 1982 when the manufacturing division was spun-off from the parent company. Primary ownership has never changed hands to date.

“In recent years, we have seen a growing demand from new and existing customers for our custom heat exchanger engineering design and fabrication product,” Beaver says.  “Bendel has invested in state-of-the-art milling and drilling machine designed to provide close tolerance machining of tubesheets used in the manufacture of our custom Shell & Tubesheet Heat Exchangers.”

Bendel uses the Quickmill Intimidator as the superior solution for large part machining and drilling accuracy. The Quickmill gives us increased production efficiency while improving the quality and performance of our Shell & Tubesheet Heat Exchangers. The Intimidator Gantry 96 (96″ x 185.5″) provides our craftsmen with a powerful, precise tool that performs flawlessly time after time.

“Bendel will continue to design and fabricate our storage tanks and pressure vessel products,” added Beaver.  “This company has had a fantastic period of growth over the past 49 years, and we are initiating our business plan to keep Bendel on the growth path for the next 50 years.”

For more information about our Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger program, please contact our Bendel heat exchanger design and fabricating program at 866-596-5112 or contact  Vince Petrucci or Vivek Patel at Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger.

 

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Stainless Steel Tank & Heat Exchanger Fabricator with Free Engineering Calculator!

Bendel Tank & Heat Exchanger invites you to download our handy engineering calculator tools to use freely on your desktop!

It’s easy to do.  Just visit this link and follow the easy download instructions!

Our free desktop tools give you calculators that you can use to calculate Pressure, Capacity, Flow, Temperature, Volume and Finishes.  Every calculation that you would need to make to design and configure a tank or vessel is contained within the calculators.

We also included handy conversion tools within the calculators for Surface Finish, Grit Size, Mass, Density, Length, Volume, Pressure/Vacuum, and Temperature.

We hope you enjoy using the Bendel Desktop Tools Widget and please give us a call at 1-866-596-5112 if you have any questions that we may help you with.  Thank you and have a great 2011!

 

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Pressure Vessel Fabricators – The Science Behind Pressure Vessels

We received some great comments and feedback from our article on the “science behind Heat Exchangers” that we posted on our blog a week ago…so we’re going to discuss about the “science behind pressure vessels” this week!

A sealed container that is intended to hold liquids or gases at a different pressure from the atmosphere around it is known as a pressure vessel. Contemporary boiler pressure vessels are typically composed of steel. Older boiler vessels were composed of wrought iron, copper or cast iron, and held together by rivets.

All Bendel Pressure Vessels and Reactors are designed and fabricated in strict accordance with ASME (Section VIII, Division I). ASME vessels can be fabricated from Carbon Steel, Stainless Steel or Nickel Alloy materials.

Boiler pressure vessels, if punctured or flawed, can cause serious and even fatal accidents. This is a result of the difference in the pressure levels between the substance inside the container and the substance outside the container. If breached, the danger lies in the reaction, as the substance inside the container regulates to the same pressure as the atmosphere outside the vessel.

If the substance inside is compressed, and stored at a higher pressure than the air outside, the substance will rush outwards if the vessel is punctured, creating an explosion. If the substance inside is at a lower pressure, it will create a suction effect if punctured. Pressurized containers can also create explosions if exposed to excessive heat, or other adverse conditions.

As a result of these hazards, extensive laws govern pressure vessels. The laws that regulate pressure vessels are carefully enforced by engineering authorities for the safety of operators, as well as the general public. These laws regulate the design and manufacture, as well as the operation, of pressure vessels.

Boiler pressure vessels are used to produce power by creating and utilizing the energy provided by the creation of pressurized steam. In order to create this reaction, a source of heat is applied to the boiler. The boiler is kept partially filled with water. As the water evaporates and becomes steam, pressure within the boiler vessel rises. The highly heated and pressurized steam provides energy for a number of applications, including early locomotive trains and steam ships.

If you would like to know more information about our Bendel pressure vessels, please call us at 866.596.5112!

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Storage Tank & Pressure Vessel Fabricators - Bendel in Charlotte!

A STATE-OF-THE-ART MANUFACTURING & FABRICATION FACILITY.


Bendel’s modern fabrication facility encompasses more than 65,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing area on a 12-acre site located less than 1 mile from Interstate Hwy’s I-85 & I-77.

Originally built in 1962, we have continually updated and maintained modern equipment and a best practices attitude in the manufacture of Tanks,Pressure Vessels and Heat Exchangers.

Our current equipment list includes:

(10) overhead cranes

(34+) MIG, TIG & SAW welding machines

(3) plate rolls (6', 12', 16') wide

Angle rolls

1/2" x 12' shear

300 ton Press brake

3/8" x 17'circle shear

16' long cold wire TIG seam welder

15-1/2' boom manipulator

8' x 15' Quickmill milling and drilling machine