When Stuff Breaks

From: <Paul>
Date: Fri Jun 13 2003 - 00:27:00 EDT

A member of Jacques Chaurette's pump list sent in some interesting photos of a ruptured process tower. All I know about it is that the accompanying email said "catastrophic hydrotest failure". And how! I stole one of the images and uploaded it to my favourite website so you can get an idea of what happened. Since I don't want to usurp page views from Jacques, you'll have to check out his Centrifugal Pump list at <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/centrifugal_pumps/">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/centrifugal_pumps/</a> and look in the Files area. Look for vessel2.zip.

<a href="http://www.pipingdesign.com/photos/tower_rupture1.jpg">http://www.pipingdesign.com/photos/tower_rupture1.jpg</a>

The three other pictures are closer views of the aftermath, showing wall thickness (looks to be about 2") and strewn metal bits. I know of at least one listmember who will be very interested in this.

Paul

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Received on Fri Jun 13 00:27:00 2003