It's fine in certain applications. I see them all over the place. Makes inline testing and in service replacement easy. The previous response is correct. Car seal or lock open is required.
Quick update...I made my recommendations and the bosses disagree with me. They said we don't need to check with insurance or legal and have canceled the PO that we gave to the RV shop I've used for years.
What do I know...I just the only PE at our site.
Excellent response. Any other have input? FYI - we would send any that fail our internal test to the VR shop down the road.
I would appreciate as many responses as possible. I've lost the first round of debate and would like to be better armed with for my next argument.
Our company is located in Louisiana. We are an LNG facility with approximately 140 relief valves. My past experience is to always use a third party inspection company to do our annual relief valve testing (annual because one of the LNG codes requires it).
Our company is going to have our...
Hello all,
I'll be taking the Mechanical PE exam next week. I'm studying hard and am stuck on a very simple problem. Can you please help?
"Water(100lbm/min, 60F) and steam (100lbm/min, 600F) both at atmospheric pressure enter an insualted chamber through separate inlets. After thorough...