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link to Difference between API 650 and API 620 Tanks: API 650 vs API 620

Difference between API 650 and API 620 Tanks: API 650 vs API 620

What is API 650 Tank? Tanks or Storage Tanks that are designed following the rules and guidelines of API 650 codes are API 650 Tanks. API 650 is the governing code for Welded tanks for Oil storage...

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Design of Bolted Connections or Bolted Joints

Bolted joints are one of the most common elements in piping design. Whenever flanged joints are used, bolted connections play an important role in keeping flanges together and avoiding flange leakage...

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What is a Pipe Expansion Joint and Why do I need one?

Piping Expansion Joints or Expansion Bellows are highly engineered mechanical devices containing one or more metal/rubber bellows. Expansion Joints are used to absorb dimensional changes caused by...

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Steam Trap Installation Best Practices

Steam traps are very essential in power piping as these devices remove unnecessary condensate from the steam lines. A steam trap serves two basic purposes: Separate the condensate from the steam...

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Vacuum Breaker: Uses, Working, Function, Installation

A Vacuum Breaker is a device that helps the air to fill the vacuum created inside a steam piping system. As the name suggests, the vacuum breaker breaks the unwanted vacuum inside a closed system....

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Nozzle Reinforcement Calculation for a Cylindrical Nozzle

Equipment nozzles are the openings through which fluid enters or exit the equipment. To create the path for fluid a part of the equipment must be cut, which weakens the equipment. So nozzle...

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