Section 7 Design Temperature
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Clasifications Register Rules and Regulations - Rules and Regulations for the Construction & Classification of Submersibles & Diving Systems, July 2022 - Part 3 Pressure Chambers - Chapter 1 General - Section 7 Design Temperature

Section 7 Design Temperature

Parent topic: Chapter 1 General

7.1 General

7.1.1 Manned pressure chambers are to be designed to be suitable for an operating range of minus 18˚C to +66˚C unless otherwise specified. However the compression chambers installed under environmentally controlled condition where the lowest possible temperature which the PVHOs or the system may be exposed to during installation and operation irrespective of pressure is not below minus 10˚C, the minimum design temperature of minus 10˚C can be accepted. Other pressure chambers such as SDC/Diving Bell/Rescue Chambers/Hyperbaric Life Boats are to be designed for a minimum design temperature of minus 18˚C unless otherwise justified that the equipment will never be exposed to temperature below minus 10˚C.

7.1.2 Manned chambers outside the limits in Pt 3, Ch 1, 7.1 General 7.1.1 are to be placed in a suitably protected location where the ambient temperature range of the location is within the limitations given by Pt 3, Ch 1, 7.1 General 7.1.1.

7.1.3 The design temperature for other pressure vessels associated with diving systems, submersibles and underwater installations is to be based on appropriate environmental and operating conditions and in compliance with the adopted code/standard.

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