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Pressure vessel for human occupancy

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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.

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

    Pressure vessel for human occupancy Wikipedia


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