Pressure vessels are use to contain fluids, vapors or gases for the purposes of storage, mixing or transportation. Read More…
Leading Manufacturers
Midwest Imperial Steel Fabricators, LLC
Oak Lawn, IL | 800-282-1574If you are looking for innovative pressure vessels, you’ve come to the right place! We actively manage your project every step of the way. We keep you informed of what we are doing to ensure we keep up to your standards and delivery times.
Gladwin Tank Mfg., Inc.
Gladwin, MI | 989-426-4768Gladwin Tank Manufacturing specializes in custom designed and built ASME tanks and ASME jacketed weldments of any shape or size made from carbon steel, stainless, duplex and nickel alloys.
Rexarc International
West Alexandria, OH | 877-739-2721Rexarc is the global leader in acetylene gas plant production, and is trusted in over 50 countries around the world with the generation, purification, and compression of the highly volatile gas. We have the knowledge, attitude, equipment, and processes to support your needs in the vessel production. We also offer value added services of piping, instrumentation, paint, and other controls integration.
Highland Tank & Manufacturing Company, Inc.
Stoystown, PA | 814-893-5701Established in 1946, our pressure vessels provide storage for a wide range of industrial, commercial, residential, and agricultural applications including: fleet vehicle fueling, indoor lift machinery, farm heating, crop drying, standby electric generation and residential heating, cooling, hot water, ranges, clothes dryers, fireplaces, heat pumps, and swimming pools.
Buckeye Fabricating Company
Springboro, OH | 800-688-9821Buckeye Fabricating has been an industry leader in the fabrication of custom pressure vessels since 1963. We understand that pressure vessels can be hazardous, so our products are thoroughly inspected and tested from start to finish. We manufacture numerous tanks and vessels that are used in a variety of applications and industries, such as Water Treatment, Pulp and Paper, and Oil and Gas, among others.
Imperial Industries Incorporated
Rothschild, WI | 800-558-2945At Imperial Industries, we’ve been designing and manufacturing specialized storage solutions for more than 40 years – constantly evolving to meet the changing needs of your industry. That dedication to growing alongside our valued customers has allowed us to advance from a maker of agricultural feed bins into the industry leader in manufacturing industrial dry bulk storage tanks as well as vacuum sanitation tanks, trucks, replacement parts and accessories.
ASME Tanks - Midwest Imperial Steel Fabricators, LLCThe ASME code of vessel manufacturing standards is the most commonly followed one, although specialized industries may have their own further requirements for manufacturing standards. ASME tanks are used in a wide range of industrial applications such as chemical, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, oil and fuel and plastic industries.
Engineers are required to abide by ASME standards for design components such as materials used for vessel construction, size, shape, temperature range and intended pressure level. In addition, once being used for processing applications, tanks and vessels are required to be regularly inspected and maintained according to ASME levels, checking for leaks, cracks or ruptured seams.
As every process which uses a pressure tank is under great force and compression, even small irregularities or cracks in a vessel could result in both property and physical damage due to an explosion, fire and flying shrapnel metal. ASME pressure vessels are measured in gallons according to their capacity, and can range anyway from 50 to several thousand gallons.
ASME Tanks - Midwest Imperial Steel Fabricators, LLCMany specifics of ASME tank construction are dependent on the intended application of the tank. There are standard options which are able to meet a wide variety of pressure vessels needs, however tanks can also be constructed according to custom specifications.
There are a number of other construction options when it comes to designing tanks such as: removable or attached lids, stands and supports for tanks that are situated on their sides, stairways and ladders for individuals that work around large tanks, sight glass windows for monitoring the liquid inside, and process plumbing for applications requiring the process.
There are three common processes that engineers usually create ASME vessels with: forging, welding and brazing, all of which involve heating pieces of metal and then joining them in the form of the vessel. Furthermore, tanks can be horizontally or vertically placed, with support braces for larger tanks to prevent collapse if necessary.
They can be located above ground or underground, depending on their intended use and whether easy access to a tank is a factor in the process or not. Smaller tanks can be mounted on the back of a large truck or vehicle and used for portable storage, mixing or processing. Tanks can be made of stainless steel, titanium, carbon steel, nickel or aluminum, or from thermoplastics with high strength properties.