flashpipe
Industrial
- Jan 15, 2003
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If there is a more appropriate forum, please send me that way.
We are a petroleum engineering and manufacturing company. We are manufacturing pipe for a client and must hydrotest each pipe using ammonium bisulfite in the water as an oxygen scavenger. Since our environmental permit does not permit us to release the hydrotest water into the environment in this case, we are developing plans to recycle the water during the test to reduce the volume to be disposed of. Since we have not performed this procedure before, I have several questions:
1. Can we add all of the ammonium bisulfite to the water prior to the start of the first test?
2. Is it necessary to monitor the concentration of ammonium bisulfite during the hydrotesting procedure? If so, what is the most cost effective method to do this?
3. Is it better to monitor the O2 level in the water with each set of pipes we hydrotest?
Your help is appreciated.
We are a petroleum engineering and manufacturing company. We are manufacturing pipe for a client and must hydrotest each pipe using ammonium bisulfite in the water as an oxygen scavenger. Since our environmental permit does not permit us to release the hydrotest water into the environment in this case, we are developing plans to recycle the water during the test to reduce the volume to be disposed of. Since we have not performed this procedure before, I have several questions:
1. Can we add all of the ammonium bisulfite to the water prior to the start of the first test?
2. Is it necessary to monitor the concentration of ammonium bisulfite during the hydrotesting procedure? If so, what is the most cost effective method to do this?
3. Is it better to monitor the O2 level in the water with each set of pipes we hydrotest?
Your help is appreciated.