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Drain Hole

Drain hole is a small hole which is provided in the lower region of orifice plate. Drain hole is required in gas flow service where liquid entrainment may occur. Read More..

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Instrument Tubing Layout

Instrument Tubing Layout shows routing of instrument tubing according to plant layout and the location of source and destination points connected by tubing. In addition, instrument tubing layout shows the details related to instrumentation tubing such as:

  • Tubing number/identification
  • Tubing going up/down
  • Type of fluid carried inside the tubing i.e hydraulic or pneumatic (air/gas) by appearance of different tubing symbol

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Pipeline Shutdown Valve

What is the main concern for the shutdown valve design in pipeline installation?

Pipeline is usually required to be cleaned periodically using pigging system. Pigging system consist of pig launcher, pig receiver and a pig. Pig has brush part which can tear out soft material.

Metal material is required to avoid broken seat due to pigging. Therefore, the design of pipeline shutdown valve shall specify metal seat.

Another requirement is that ball valve type Shutdown Valve (SDV) in pipeline shall be full bore.

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Ladder (Cable Ladder)

Ladder may refers to cable ladder. Ladder is used to support large number of large cables between two points. Cable Ladder material shall be selected based on environmental and installation conditions. Several types of material are available such as stainless steel, GRP, galvanized steel. Read More..

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