We have an application where we overfilled a hydrated lime silo. The silo has a guided radar level probe but in this instance the level jumped rapidly from 80% to 100% and the silo overflowed before the operator could shut off the lime supply. The silo is relatively small (70m3) and holds less...
I'm looking for some advice regarding the chemical cleaning of calcium carbonate scales from systems containining a mixture of 304/316 stainless steel and carbon steel.
From my reading online and ASTM A 380-06 (standard for cleaning, descaling and passivation of stainless steel) it appears that...
I'm looking for experience/suggestions on density measurements for abrasive slurries.
The unit can be tank or pipe mounted. Slurry densities are approximately 20-25wt% (lime slurry).
Nucleonic gauges are the preferred method but will not be used in this facility.
A straight through coriolis...
I've seen a number of threads on venting requirements for atmospheric tanks.
Having perused API 620 and API 2000 I'm still stuck regarding the therma inbreathing requirments for tanks which fall outside the tables of API 2000 (>49degC).
API 2000 states that an engineering review should be...
