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    Hydrogen Chloride Formation

    Any chloride that you introduce in a combustion process will cause severe corrosion, in particular where flue gas is able to condense (exhaust pipe, stack, boiler, heat recovery economizer, …)
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    Whale's Tail of a Story

    Other angle
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    Erosion/sliding abrasion/corrosion resistance material

    Just to provoke the thought process - maybe not directly applicable to this issue: Google "gamma bend elbow". These elbows are used in pneumatic conveying of abrasive solids. The concept is that the accumulation of product in the outer curve of the elbow absorbs a portion of the impact of...
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    Boeing 737 Max8 Aircraft Crashes and Investigations [Part 5]

    It's a matter of how you bring the message. I understood that American Airlines previously extended the flight cancellations until December 3rd, 2019 and now decided to further extend the cancellations until January 15th, 2020.
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    Lamtec burner controller

    Typically in burner management, the first safety time is the time after opening the pilot fuel valve that allows for a flame sensor signal to confirm that there's a pilot flame. If the signal doesn't come up within this period, you'd trip. If you do have a pilot flame signal, the burner...
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    Why is a Pressure Vacuum Relief Valve needed in a Water Storage Tank Vent

    Hacksaw raises an important point: if the water quality and purity is important, you may want to protect against contamination from wildlife or nearby dust sources. That would require a simple mesh screen (against birds and insects) or filter. However, that would need to be included in the vent...
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    Crane Test weight- 240 tons

    To build on the idea of containers + water bags: Flexi-bags or flexi-tanks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexi-bag) can be used to fill a container with water, overcoming the waterproofing issue. The bags that I've seen for liquid food products are supplied with an integrated head board that is...
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    Total Cost of Ownership for Valves and Pumps

    Article "A Life Cycle Cost Summary" by H. Paul Barringer, 2003 (ICOMS-2003)
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    Tank Implosion due to insufficient vent diameter

    I'm with Duwe6 on the possible cause. Vent calculation for collapsing vapor has been addressed in thread391-329825 Vent Sizing
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    Spanish Normative RD 2060-2008 regarding boiler buildings

    Hello, Does anybody have experience in applying the Spanish Normative RD 2060-2008? I'm interested to find out if there would be a difference in applicability between a direct fired fire tube boiler (fuel burned in 1st boiler pass inside the boiler shell) and a waste heat fire tube boiler (fuel...
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    Energy Consumption

    It depends... You should discuss with potential suppliers. Much will depend on: * Your raw material (whole trees? co-product from timber wood harvesting? sawdust from wood sawing operation? demolition wood?). That will make a big difference for your consumption in step 1 and 2. * Energy for...
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    Energy Consumption

    wood pellet production plants http://www.wtsab.com/
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    Spiral Heat Exchanger

    Zaxmin, I guess you are referring to tube-in-tube heat exchangers, where the outer surface of the inner tube has a spiral on the surface to promote turbulation and thus heat transfer. See http://www.redenko.com/products/tube-heat-exchangers/spiralex-spiralised-tubular-heat-exchangers/ These...
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    Pipe shield to prevent burns from uninsulated pipe

    The pipes on the picture are DN250. The same protection is used on lines DN400 and DN600. In all cases, the distance between pipe wall and perforated plate is only a few centimeters.
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    Pipe shield to prevent burns from uninsulated pipe

    Perforated plate personal protection works for me in an outdoor application for piping with process temperature of 150 °C. The perforated plate has supporting rings (0.5 to 1 m apart) which are on small strip legs attached to the process pipe. The conduction through these small strips is clearly...

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