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 Pump Start-up surge, Valve closure shock, Pump shutdown back flow bang. Large vessels for high pressures with matching bladders, diaphragms, gas bags, and bellows, for over a third of a century. ShockGuard offers Shock Alleviators. | Please Phone 910-270-2737 We have people not voicemail | Call toll free UK 08080-567-7423 |
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In addition to pipeline shock solutions, we also provide:
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Where block valves shut a volume in a pipe that may be subject to temperature change and where a relief valve piped back to source is not safe or practical, Flexorber or Liquibello volume compensators are used.
The LIQUIBELLO Metal Bellows Replaceable bellows capsule. FLEXORBER LP with PTFE Diaphragm from FLEXFLON or virgin Teflon (El DuPont)
1. Reservoir 2. Centrifugal Pump 3. Motorized progressice Valve 4. Vacuum Breaker 5 Centrifugal Pump2. Centrifugal Pump2. Centrifugal Pumpvv 10. SurgeGuard 11. Emergency fast shut down valve
Click on the Flexorber LP for detailed pages
The LiquiBello
For extreme temperature service, where liquid is not compatible with elastomer or plastomer
LiquiBello photos and dimensional drawings
| A QUICK ESTIMATE OF THE VOLUME OF COMPENSATOR NEEDED | ||
| 1. "dV" ration The volumetric expansion of the liquid over application temperature range: (This figure is found from the difference in SG Specific gravity at the lowest temp, to SG at the highest temp) Example: Liquid has a density of 1.013 at 5 Degrees C. and density 0.98 at 150 Deg, C. The valve for volumetric expansion is 1.013 minus 0.98 - 0.033 (3.3%) |
EXAMPLE: 0.033
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| 2. "V" The volume of liquid locked in between the clock valves. * |
1,637 Cu.Meters
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| 3. Pressure max "Pm". Generally less than the max pipe design pressure. |
70 Bar
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| 4. "dP" Maximum allowable level of pressure change to be applied. |
35 Bar
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| The equation has assumed an isothermal pressure change for the suction gas compression or expansion which is of course absolutely incorrect. However the pipeline itself expands and contracts with temperature hereby accommodating some of the expansion or contraction volume. This is being used here as an offset, to save having to make an adiabatic calculation - to simplify the example for you. An accurate calculation can be made with the gas laws:  where n=0.3The coefficient of expansion for the pipe material will of course then also have to be used to reduce the volume selected, because of the volume change due to pipe expansion or contraction. |
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Visit LIQUID DYNAMICS Intl. Ltd. LDi offers analytical and modeling services. They predict these and similar problems, before pipe systems are built. ShockGuard is a licensed run time user of the LDi Ltd. software, ShockView. ShockView enables us to quickly and accurately run your proposed piping system, in our computers and you what the maximum level of pump start up surge, or shutdown shock will be.
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Water Hammer and Pipeline Shock / Surge Prevention Equipment
STOP Pump start up surge, Valve closure shock, and Shut down back flow water hammer.
Call Toll Free 1-888-326-7377, UK Europe -- 44(0)161-480-9625, or Contact Us Online.Understanding How it Works
Shock alleviators and shock accumulators do not alleviate shock, nor do surge alleviators and surge accumulators alleviate surge. SurgeGuard, JumboFlex, and Floatolator all work in the same way. They provide a soft place, so that the pump does not have to instantly accelerate all the liquid in the pipe system when it starts. Similarly, they provide a place into which flow can continue, for a time, against increasing resistance, when a a valve has been slammed. In both cases, because time has been increased, peak pressure generation is decreased. In short, they all prevent the peak pressure from being generated.www.Shock-Guard.com / www.ShockGuard.co.uk
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