Pressure vessels such as steam generators are subjected to high temperature, in addition pressure during the operating condition. Flanges and bolts made up of different materials whose coefficient thermal expansion varies. Usually, is greater than that flanges. At elevated temperatures expand more flanges, resulting decrease compression connected members achieved assembly stage, which turn decr...

Developing an accurate concentrated solar power (CSP) performance model requires significant effort and time. The block (PB) is the most complex system, its modeling clearly complicated time-demanding part. Nonetheless, PB layouts are quite similar throughout CSP plants, meaning that there enough historical process data available from commercial plants to use machine learning techniques. These ...