Sorry for bringing up such an interesting scenario! The piping that comes up out of the ground only has concentric reducers. We have 12" headers for this 8" tube. So it is reducing down from a 12"-8" concentrically.
I am not sure what you mean by if the piping is up instead of down or horizontal. The inlet piping comes up out of the ground, passes horizontally through the tube, and then back down the outlet. We have our plate carrier roll out horizontally instead of vertically. Is that what you were asking?
The plate was note installed backwards. Look at the gear teeth on the plate carrier. The gear is on the downstream side, same as the beveled edge. It is strange, I'll admit. And I do not know enough about the process to understand why. But having pulled the plate myself, I can tell you that it...
zdas04, not to stray off OP but when you say water dams, are you talking about something along the lines of the below picture? This is an 8" plate pulled from a meter that had been in service for about three weeks. It sure seems like a big problem.
gerogeverghese, (a) yes this is a huge issue for us. Our carrier sits horizontal and we use the bottom ports as drains (operations techs are trained to flush those drains any time they are near the area. I've never encountered a dry meter. I have pulled orifice plates and found water lines 3"...
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I want to thank you for some fantastic responses! Being that I sent this out a day or two before Thanksgiving, I figured I'd get one or two responses back. Boy was I surprised!
zdas04, I haven't looked too much into how working pressure affects DP and an acceptable range. I do know that...
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