Half-Pipe Jacketed Vessels
Half-Pipe Vessel
& Reactor Fabrication
Half-pipe jacketed reactors are typically the workhorse of many chemical synthesis processes. Bishopric Industries is an industry leader in the design and manufacturing of half-pipe jacketed reactors with decades of experience serving customers in the life sciences, chemical, petrochemical, and other related sectors using chemical processes that include:
Monomers
Fermentation
Pharmaceutical
Polymerization
Polyols
Hydrogenation
How Bishopric Fabricates Half-Pipe Reactors
Our shops feature 985,000 square feet of fabrication space, a lift capacity of up to 1,000,000 pounds with specialized equipment, and proprietary processes for designing and fabricating half-pipe reactors. Bishopric’s in-house engineering team will work with you to develop designs that provide the best value based on your facility’s process.
Our engineering and fabrication teams work together to:
- Optimize processes that solve challenges such as weld cracking and leaks.
- Reduce reactor internal wall waviness due to excessive weld heat.
- Incorporate reactor modeling to determine optimum designs.
- Increase reactor service life in cyclic operations.
- Develop cost-effective designs to meet operational performance applications.
- Axisymmetric assessment on thermal designs.
- Proprietary fit-up and full-penetration welding to eliminate weld gaps.
- Continuous coil welding—with no limit on size—to eliminate butt welds.
- Continuous coil welding around the tank heads and over the knuckle to maximize heat transfer area.
- Guaranteed 100% interior weld inspection.