Example problem 3.

5 based on API 579 example manual Darren Ting April 21 2013

Allowable stress SA  17500psi Material is SA204 Grade B year 1993
Design temperature Td  300 °F
Design Pressure DP  390psi
Inner diameter ID  234in
Operating Pressure OP  240 psi
Wall Thickeness Twall  2.72
Startup Pressure Pstart  157psi
Weld Joint Efficiency WE  1
1
Corrosion Allowance CA  in
16
MAT at design pressure MATdesign  108 °F
Min Pressure Pmin  0psi
Max Pressure Pmax  391.9385psi
Number of increments n  100

Pass   Pmin   Pmax

Pmax
Assessment pressure
 n 
1
Stress Ratio SR  0   1
n
From 3.4.1 of API 579-Using 3.4.3.3 Pressure
Vessels-Method C
Limitations and assumptions are based on API 579 methodology.refer to API 579

Assumption that the governing thickness is the plate

thickness
 Curve A chosen

Calculate MAT_step 1

MAT_step1 
76.911  284.85Twall  27.560Twall2 Option A chosen to
2 determine MAT for step 1
1  1.7971Twall  0.17887Twall
MAT_step1  108.2162
Convert range to vector

Range2Vec( Range)  Count  ORIGIN

for i  Range
Vec i
Count
Count  Count  1
Vec

Calculate temperature reduction as per table 3.7

RED( SR)  100 ( 1  SR) if SR  0.6
1.5 ln( SR)
9979.57  14125  SR  9088.11  exp( SR)  17.3893 if ( 0.6  SR  0
2
SR
0.4 otherwise

All values for SR<=0.4 have MAT=-155. Just did not format output
Pass  SR  RED( SR)  max( MAT_step1  RED( SR) 55) 
0 psi 0 0.4 107.8162
3.9194 0.01 0.4 107.8162
7.8388 0.02 0.4 107.8162
11.7582 0.03 0.4 107.8162
15.6775 0.04 0.4 107.8162
19.5969 0.05 0.4 107.8162
23.5163 0.06 0.4 107.8162
27.4357 0.07 0.4 107.8162
31.3551 0.08 0.4 107.8162
35.2745 0.09 0.4 107.8162
39.1938 0.1 0.4 107.8162
43.1132 0.11 0.4 107.8162
47.0326 0.12 0.4 107.8162
50.952 0.13 0.4 107.8162
54.8714 0.14 0.4 107.8162
58.7908 0.15 0.4 107.8162
62.7102 0.16 0.4 107.8162
66.6295 0.17 0.4 107.8162
 66.6295 0.17 0.4 107.8162
70.5489 0.18 0.4 107.8162
74.4683 0.19 0.4 107.8162
78.3877 0.2 0.4 107.8162
82.3071 0.21 0.4 107.8162
86.2265 0.22 0.4 107.8162
90.1459 0.23 0.4 107.8162
94.0652 0.24 0.4 107.8162
97.9846 0.25 0.4 107.8162
101.904 0.26 0.4 107.8162
105.8234 0.27 0.4 107.8162
109.7428 0.28 0.4 107.8162
113.6622 0.29 0.4 107.8162
117.5816 0.3 0.4 107.8162
121.5009 0.31 185.3282 -55
125.4203 0.32 172.5162 -55
129.3397 0.33 161.0498 -52.8336
133.2591 0.34 150.7151 -42.4989
137.1785 0.35 141.3359 -33.1197
141.0979 0.36 132.7672 -24.551
145.0172 0.37 124.8895 -16.6733
148.9366 0.38 117.6048 -9.3886
152.856 0.39 110.8329 -2.6167
156.7754 0.4 104.5085 3.7077
160.6948 0.41 98.5789 9.6374
164.6142 0.42 93.0018 15.2144
168.5336 0.43 87.7441 20.4721
172.4529 0.44 82.7805 25.4357
176.3723 0.45 78.0919 30.1244
180.2917 0.46 73.6649 34.5513
184.2111 0.47 69.4911 38.7251
188.1305 0.48 65.566 42.6502
192.0499 0.49 61.8889 46.3273
195.9693 0.5 58.462 49.7542
199.8886 0.51 55.2903 52.9259
203.808 0.52 52.3812 55.835
207.7274 0.53 49.744 58.4722
211.6468 0.54 47.3899 60.8263
215.5662 0.55 45.3317 62.8845
219.4856 0.56 43.5835 64.6327
223.4049 0.57 42.1608 66.0555
227.3243 0.58 41.0798 67.1364
231.2437 0.59 40.3582 67.8581
235.1631 0.6 40 68.2162
239.0825 0.61 39 69.2162
243.0019 0.62 38 70.2162
246.9213 0.63 37 71.2162
250.8406 0.64 36 72.2162
254.76 0.65 35 73.2162
258.6794 0.66 34 74.2162
262.5988 0.67 33 75.2162
266.5182 0.68 32 76.2162
270.4376 0.69 31 77.2162
274.3569 0.7 30 78.2162
278.2763 0.71 29 79.2162
282.1957 0.72 28 80.2162
286.1151 0.73 27 81.2162
290.0345 0.74 26 82.2162
293.9539 0.75 25 83.2162
297.8733 0.76 24 84.2162
301.7926 0.77 23 85.2162
305.712 0.78 22 86.2162
309.6314 0.79 21 87.2162
313.5508 0.8 20 88.2162
317.4702 0.81 19 89.2162
321.3896 0.82 18 90.2162
325.309 0.83 17 91.2162
329.2283 0.84 16 92.2162
333.1477 0.85 15 93.2162
337.0671 0.86 14 94.2162
340.9865 0.87 13 95.2162
344.9059 0.88 12 96.2162
348.8253 0.89 11 97.2162
352.7446 0.9 10 98.2162
356.664 0.91 9 99.2162
360.5834 0.92 8 100.2162
364.5028 0.93 7 101.2162
368.4222 0.94 6 102.2162
372.3416 0.95 5 103.2162
376.261 0.96 4 104.2162
380.1803 0.97 3 105.2162
384.0997 0.98 2 106.2162
388.0191 0.99 1 107.2162
391.9385 1 0 108.2162