PRESSURE VESSELS

Tantalum Zirconium

Titanium

Nickel Alloys Stainless Steel

Carbon Steel

MERSEN, AN EXPERT IN MATERIAL AND EQUIPMENT FOR DEMANDING ENVIRONMENTS

Mersen wishes to share its extensive expertise in high-performance equipment with its customers. Mersen designs innovative solutions to address its clients specic needs to enable them to optimize their manufacturing process in sectors such as energy (nuclear and solar), chemical, ne chemical, water and process industries (metallurgy...). Mersens experience and skills in thermal design, process engineering and anticorrosion materials ensure that all the manufactured equipment can cope with your process constraints. To serve its worldwide customers, Mersen manufactures its equipment through American, European, Indian and Chinese rst-class production plants representing more than 220,000 m.

Reactors Pressure vessels

Mixers

Block / Plate

Shell & Tube

Columns

Piping Fittings

Heat exchangers

Graphite

SiC

Tantalum

Zirconium

Titanium

Carbon Steel Stainless Steel Nickel Alloys

Fluoropolymer

Anticorrosion Systems

PRESSURE VESSELS

Mersen is a worlwide recognized designer and manufacturer of pressure vessels made of different materials ranging from carbon steel, stainless steel and nickel alloys up to sophisticated anticorrosive solutions such as titanium, zirconium and tantalum. Decades of experience allow Mersen to provide any design including solid, lined and cladded construction and therefore it masters all available welding processes such as GTAW, GMAW, SAW, PAW, FCAW, SMAW. Since 2006, Mersen has successfully developed its own patented Clad technology called CL-Clad. Pressure vessels are also fully in accordance with Mersen, through the acquisition of Lumpp, French company specialized in the design and manufacture of mixers, gathers internally all the competences to produce a full reactor-mixer package: thermal transfer mass transfer hydraulic design mechanical design Any design: solid, lined or cladded Compliant with international standards and certifications international certifications: ASME U stamp, PED, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, SELO, KGS, GOST-R, HAF. Our engineering capabilities comply with international standards such as ASME, AS ADM, JIS, CODAP RTOD or RCCM for nuclear applications. Our experience in many elds is a strength to adapt our industrial means according to the specication, from a pilot project to an industrial capacity (100m3).

CARBON STEEL AND STAINLESS STEEL PRESSURE VESSELS

Carbon steel and stainless steel pressure vessels are mainly produced in China. Our 150,000-m2 plant allows the production of pressure vessels up to 7,000 mm diameter and 120 mm thickness for carbon steel equipment. All the machines such as heavy-duty rolling machines, heavy cranes, heat treatment facility, sandblasting and painting are fully integrated in the Mersen plant. Means of production: 20,000 m2 shopoor exclusively dedicated to carbon steel and 13,000 m for stainless steel Rolling: maximum 120 mm thickness, 3 meters width Lifting cranes: 240 tonnes In-house NDT : X ray, Gamma ray PT, UT, MT, PMI, helium leak test Heat treatment furnace: 6 m height, 6 m width, 24 m length Flame and plasma cutting, up to 200 mm In-house surface treatment: pickling, polishing and electropolishing Design capacity

Stainless steel pressure vessel

steel Carbon el ure vess press

 Design according to international

standards

Material according to ASTM, EN,

AS, GB, AD standards

High-pressure vessel experience Large production capacity up to

50,000 tons equipment/year

Project management according to

international requirements (uent English speaking) able to manage large projects including 100 pressure vessels

Carbon steel rubber lined

Carbon steel rubber lined

NICKEL ALLOYS AND TITANIUM PRESSURE VESSELS

Nickel alloys and titanium pressure vessels are produced in plants on 3 continents: 6,000 m2 in USA, 6,000 m2 in Europe and
Titanium pressure vessel

13,000 m2 in China. A long expertise in the fabrication of reactive metal equipment combined with an international material sourcing policy allow Mersen to bring quality and cost-effective solutions. Titanium pressure vessels are specially designed to cope with PTA applications, for which Mersen has a large recognized experience obtained by providing reactors, crystallisers, columns, heat exchangers and piping in titanium grade 2. Means of production: Dedicated rolling machine for nickel alloys and reactive metals Plasma cutting machine Glove boxes Water jet cutting In-house NDT: X ray, PT, UT, PMI, helium leak test In-house surface treatment: pickling, polishing and electropolishing Design capacity

Titanium pressure vessel

 Design according to international

standards

Material according to ASTM, EN, AS,

GB, AD standards

High-pressure vessel experience Large production capacity Project management according to

international requirement (uent English speaking) able to manage large projects including 100 pressure vessels

Titanium pressure vessel

Nickel Alloys pressure vessel

ZIRCONIUM PRESSURE VESSELS

A long expertise in the design and fabrication of reactive metal equipment combined with an international material sourcing policy allow Mersen to bring quality and cost-effective solutions. Mersen has mastered solid or cladded zirconium fabrication processes for decades. Mersen has developed a patented cladding technology, CL-Clad already experienced on various zirconium pressure vessels. Mersen produces zirconium pressure vessels in plants on 3 continents: 6,000 m2 in USA, 6,000 m2 in Europe and 13,000 m2 in China. Zirconium pressure vessels are suitable in corrosive environments, notably for the production of acetic acid. Mersen is recognized as the number 1 in supplying zirconium columns and produces zirconium shell and tube heat exchangers and pressure vessels for the major producers of acetic
Zirconium pressure vessel

acid. Our large references are available upon request. Key features: Dedicated rolling machines for reactive metals

Experience in designing
solid or cladded pressure vessels

Glove boxes Automatic GTAW + PAW machines Water jet cutting In-house NDT: X ray, PT, UT, PMI, helium leak test

Design according to international standards

CL-Clad technology Material according to ASME,

EN, AS, GB, AD

Manufacturing in dedicated
clean room ensuring nal quality

Experienced and qualied

international welding teams

Zirconium pressure vessel

TANTALUM PRESSURE VESSELS

Mersen designs and manufactures tantalum process equipment such as heat exchangers, columns, pressure vessels, mixers, piping, ttings for chemicals, ne chemicals/ pharmaceuticals and steel industries in its dedicated 3,000 m2 workshop in Linsengericht (Germany). A long expertise in the design and fabrication of reactive metal equipment combined with highly skilled welders allow Mersen to be recognized as an expert in tantalum equipment. This consolidates our reputation as the Home of Tantalum. Mersen has mastered solid, lining or cladded tantalum fabrication processes for decades. Mersen has developed a patented cladding technology in 2006, CL-Clad, already experienced on various tantalum pressure vessels. Tantalum pressure vessels are mainly used in elds such as: Hydrochloric acid Sulfuric acid Acid concentration Bromine Pharmaceuticals Pickling baths Means of production: CL-Clad brazing furnace Water jet cutting machine In-house NDT: PT, PMI, helium leak test 5-axis milling machine Glove-box Available stock of plates
Mersen Linsengericht 60m3 Tantalum pressure vessel

CL-CLAD, MERSEN PATENTED BRAZING TECHNOLOGY

CL-Clad brazing Mersen developed and patented few years ago a new brazing technology. CL-Clad brazing is a reliable technology based on our patented specic brazing ller that allows strong bonding between base material (carbon steel or stainless steel) and anticorrosive cladding. CL-Clad is suitable for Tantalum and Zirconium equipment. A 3 000 m workshop in Pagnysur-Moselle (France), is dedicated to the manufacture of CL-Clad plates, with a large capacity furnace designed internally by the Research and Development department.

Process: 1 Pack of plates are loaded in a furnace operated under inert atmosphere 2 Cladding of materials is obtained by heating and pressure cycle 3 Largest size of CL-Clad plates in 2.5x4.5m.Brazing hardness allows forming 4 Assembly, welding, testing accordingly international codes.

Brazing Alloy

Clad lining for very large thickness under pressure.

Interface Intermetallic compounds

Process: 1 Steel vessel and CL-Clad plates are manufactured separately 2 CL-Clad liner is formed and welded to the steel shell (wall papering) 3 Steel vessel is following pressure vessel regulation 4 Lining is designed to resist vacuum 5 Batten strap design give exibility and geometrical tolerances for the lining 6 Lining procedure with welding of CL-Clad plates in compliance with ASME-V regulation

Clad lining consists of using a dual layer comprised of internal CL-Clad layer in vacuum with large external steel layer. The external layer thickness is up to 100 mm. The internal CL-Clad layer, which is comprised of a carbon steel base plate brazed with a thin reactive metal layer, has a thickness from 10 to 15 mm. Both internal and external layers are locally welded to comply with vacuum resistance.

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Scheme:
HEATING & PRESSURE

HEATING & PRESSURE

Customized design with exible

number and position of nozzles

Scheme:

Can withstand pressure and vacuum Temperature resistant Mechanical and thermal resistance Corrosion resistance Plates in stock

ZIRCONIUM

BRAZING CARBON STEEL OR STAINLESS STEEL

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Main production sites Quick service shops

A worldwide specialist in anticorrosion and process equipment

Worldwide presence with several manufacturing sites and workshops close to our customers
Mersen France Pagny-sur-Moselle
36,000 m2 Heat exchangers, pressure vessels, columns, piping, bellows and compensators, mixers, systems, bursting discs

Mersen USA Salem

6,700 m2 Graphite heat exchangers, systems, welded plate heat exchangers, piping, bellows and compensators, bursting discs

Mersen France Brignais

8,000 m2 Welded and gasketed plate heat exchangers, metallic shell and tubes heat exchangers, mixers

Mersen France Grsy

8,000 m2 Specialist in equipment for the nuclear industry Pressure vessels, columns, mixers, heat exchangers

Mersen UK Teesside Nippon Carbon Mersen

Distribution and repair shop 5,600 m2 Graphite heat exchangers, bursting discs

Mersen Deutschland Linsengericht

3,000 m2 Tantalum equipment: heat exchangers, bayonets, heating coils, columns, accessories

Mersen USA Oxnard

6,600 m
2

Mersen India Chennai

2,600 m
2

Mersen Maroc El Jadida

2,500 m2 Graphite and metallic heat exchangers After-sales service, assemblying

Mersen Xianda Shanghai-Fengxian

150,000 m2 Heat exchangers, pressure vessels, columns, piping, mixers, systems

Mersen France Pagny-sur-Moselle 1, rue Jules Ferry - F-54530 Pagny-sur-Moselle Tel.: +33 (0)3 83 81 60 81 www.mersen.com 12

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Pressure vessels, columns, heat exchangers (zirconium, titanium)

Graphite heat exchangers, systems