{"id":1509,"date":"2023-07-21T10:04:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T10:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2023-07-21T10:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T10:04:45","slug":"large-scale-temperature-solution-37-metre-thermowell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/?p=1509","title":{"rendered":"Large-scale temperature solution: 37-metre thermowell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At WIKA USA we are used to dealing with unusually sized temperature solutions. However, this request from a customer was abnormal, even for US standards \u2013 during a plant shutdown at the Freeport (Texas) site, it was urgently necessary to replace two flanged thermowells with our Flex-O multi-point system. The size needed was 37 metres! The entire project time \u2013 from start to finish \u2013 was less than five working days.<br\/>The assigned project manager jumped right on this request and made sure that around 76 metres of 1.5-inch pipe were ordered from a local supplier. The maximum pipe length available was about 5.5 metres, so each thermowell would need seven butt welds (including the mounting cap) to achieve the overall length.<br\/>The technical challenge in the manufacturing process is to achieve a full penetration weld without dropping weld material (filler) inside the thermowell which would obstruct inserting the Flex-O temperature system. The team did everything right. All welds passed X-ray testing by an independent test laboratory. The Flex-O system could easily be slid into the thermowell.<br\/>The final challenge was transportation. In order for the thermowells to reach Freeport safely, a lorry length of at least 31 metres was required. For a transport of this size, special permits and police escorts are required. A special lorry was booked immediately and the transport permits obtained. Nothing further stood in the way of a proper and timely delivery.<br\/>Note<br\/> <a href=\"http:\/\/speedhuntersonline.com\">How To<\/a>  on our range of thermowells can be found on the WIKA website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At WIKA USA we are used to dealing with unusually sized temperature solutions. However, this request from a customer was abnormal, even for US standards \u2013 during a plant shutdown at the Freeport (Texas) site, it was urgently necessary to replace two flanged thermowells with our Flex-O multi-point system. The size needed was 37 metres! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1510,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions\/1510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}