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A chemical reactor functions as an enclosed vessel where chemical reactions occur. It's crucial for process designers to ensure the reaction proceeds efficiently toward the desired product, maximizing yield while minimizing costs associated with procurement and operation. Operational expenses encompass factors like energy input and disposal, raw material costs, labor, and other associated charges. Typically, reactants and products within the reactor are in fluid form, either gases or liquids. Continuous reactors maintain a constant operational state, while batch reactors undergo transient operation. Transient operation occurs when a reactor is activated for the first time or following a shutdown, with critical process variables fluctuating over time.

A pressure vessel is defined as a container with a pressure differential between inside and outside. The inside pressure is usually higher than the outside, except for some isolated situations. The fluid inside the vessel may undergo a change in state as in the case of steam boilers, or may combine with other reagents as in the case of a chemical reactor. Pressure vessels often have a combination of high pressures together with high temperatures, and in some cases flammable fluids or highly radioactive materials. Pressure vessels are used in a number of industries; for example, the power generation industry for fossil and nuclear power, the petrochemical industry for storing and processing crude petroleum oil in tank farms as well as storing gasoline in service stations, and the chemical industry (in chemical reactors) to name but a few.