Pressure vessel for human occupancy

Since 1977, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers PVHO committee has published standards governing the construction of a number of devices which are defined as Pressure Vessels for Human Occupancy. The current standard is PVHO-1-2007.^[1]

List of PVHO types

decompression chambers
diving bells
high altitude chambers
hyperbaric chambers
hyperbaric stretchers
medical hyperbaric oxygenation facilities
personnel transfer capsules
recompression chambers
submarines

Nuclear reactor containments, aerospace cabins, caissons or mild hyperbaric chambers are not considered to be PVHOs according to the standard.

References

↑ "PVHO-1-2007" (PDF). Public.Resource.Org, Inc. Retrieved September 4, 2015.

ASME

Organizations	ASME Bioprocess Equipment group Engineering for Change

Standards	ASME B5 ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code ASME Y14.41-2003 ASME Nuclear Quality Assurance-1 ASME B16

Awards	ASME Burt L. Newkirk Award ASME Medal George Westinghouse Medal Henry Laurence Gantt Medal Worcester Reed Warner Medal

People	Alexander Lyman Holley Henry Rossiter Worthington John Edison Sweet Matthias N. Forney

Related	American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Inc. v. Hydrolevel Corp. List of Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmarks Pressure vessel for human occupancy

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