Chemical Cleaning is the procedure for field cleaning of the piping systems especially Steam lines inlet for Turbines and Steam Drums. These pipelines after cleaning shall be free from hydrocarbons,...
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Surface Laid Pipelines, as the name suggests, are Pipelines that are laid on the surface of the loose desert sand without any restraints. These unrestrained pipelines, unlike the other unrestrained...
Difference between ASME B16.47 Series A and Series B Flanges
ASME B16.47 is an American standard for large-diameter steel flanges. This standard covers the design of flanges from NPS 26 to NPS 60. For lower sizes i.e., up to NPS 24, ASME B16.5 has to be...
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....
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...
Stress Intensity Factor (SIF), Flexibility Factor: ASME B31.3 vs ASME B31J
A piping system consists of many different components such as bends, elbows, reducers, tees, valves, and flanges. However, in the pipe stress analysis, these various components are idealized into two...