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    Acid pipeline (Polypropylene lined) leak detection

    Thank you very much for your input. Would you mind to elaborate or may I actually contact yourself to further discuss what Internal inspection pig is? Thanks. My number: 1-800-263-9305 ext. 3167 (CANADA)
  2. soken2006

    Acid pipeline (Polypropylene lined) leak detection

    In our steel pickling line, there are always little leaks which caused us lots of downtime. Leaky flanges, nipples, pipes, gaskets, and pipe connections. Is there a technology or suggestions to better detect them or predict them ahead of time so we can schedule for repair? Thanks
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    Pump failures

    Thank you very much for your replies. This is what we plan to do, it just puzzles me to what happen to the pumps when no significant noises were detected by Amp draw dropped significantly. Thanks.
  4. soken2006

    Pump failures

    Gents: Thanks for your advise. I don't know how to load pictures onto this chat room unfortunately. I do have some pictures of failed impellers. The impellers are made of Fibre glass. The acid is 18% HCL and SG is 1.15. To Artisi: I worked on this with my Piping Engineer, learning it from...
  5. soken2006

    Pump failures

    I have an Acid system in our steel pickling line. 4 pumps in parallel pumping 18% acid to a '6 storey tower' Each floor of the tower have 4 sets of spray headers. So many pumps failed, and replacing these pumps cost a lot of money and management is giving us a lot of pressure. We hooked up the...

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