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Similarly, nozzles are installed on pressure vessels by cutting a hole in the side of the
vessel and welding in an appropriately sized pipe to form the nozzle. These
intersections ensure a "hole weakening" on the vessel or piping system, due to the
metal removed and the stress concentration created.
In critical systems, this weakness must be compensated, and can be restored with a
Reinforcing Pad, to strengthen the piping branch connection or the pressure vessel
nozzle.
Branch Connection with Reinforcing Pad (Set-On
type)
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• Place the branch with a gap by about 3 to 4 mm about the hole location on the run
pipe, and tack weld the branch on a sufficient number of places. Then the new
branch can be completely welded.
• Then the reinforcing pad can be placed by slide him over the branch. The pad must
be positioned so that around the branch, is overall the same open space, and that the
pad is fully in line with the run pipe. Tack weld the pad on a sufficient number of
places, and after that the pad can be inside and outside fully welded; depending on
the prescribed quality requirements, then again NDE must be done. Attention! --
Cited as a flange at the branch pipe is welded, you must obviously make sure that the
ring is placed earlier. You will not be the first and probably not the last, with a
reinforcing pad in his hands, and discovered that the sequence of action was not
entirely correct.
Weep-Hole
On a number of images, you might be have seen a
round hole in the reinforcing pad. This is a "Weep Hole"
and may have multiple functions. Sometimes also called
Tell Tale hole or Vent hole.
Opinions about the use of this hole varies, and therefore
I give 2 possible uses of a weep hole:
NPT is the best known and most widely used connection where the pipe thread provides both the
mechanical joint and the hydraulic seal. NPT has a tapered male and female thread which seals
with Teflon® tape or jointing compound.
ASME B1.20.1 covers dimensions and gaging of NPT pipe threads for general purpose
applications.