Refurbished Constant Supports
The picture above shows the “before” and “after” of constant supports refurbished by Piping Technology & Products, Inc. Customers ship these units to our plant during a turn-around in a wide variety of conditions. In this case it was cheaper and faster to refurbish them than to rebuild. In either case each unit is completely tested in a load cell to assure performance and a new name plate is attached to record the load, travel and other parameters. Four of these horizontal upthrust supports can be seen above, ready for return to the customers. Power plants, petrochemical plants and paper mills are the primary users of this service.
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45,000 lb. Load CAD Spring Support
The photograph above shows a CAD Spring Support to handle over 45,000 lb. Load with movement in excess of 4”. This is a PTP-8, size 22 Type F Spring Support utilizing four stacked hellcat coils with eliminates the possibility of binding or squirming, problems which baffled others attempting development of such a design. Travel stops hold the coils in compression to cold load, while hydrostatic test spots prevent the coils from “bottoming out” during line tests. The spring casing and baseplate, which eliminates the need to weld after galvanizing, are paramount to the success of this design.
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Tension (Pigtail) Spring Supports
This picture above shows tension springs being prepared to support furnace tubes in a refinery reformer. The bottom picture shows one of the five springs the customer specified have a displacement scale attached, so operator’s can observe the inches of movement when the spring is expanded. These springs were part of a package of materials prepared for shipment to an overseas site by Piping Technology & Products, Inc. of Houston, TX. Our customers use spring coils to support loads from a few pounds to 100,000 pounds so they come in many sizes.
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PT&P Aids in the Construction of a New Petro-Chemical Facility
The photograph above shows construction site of a new petro-chemical facility near Houston, Texas. Pipe supports supplied by Piping Technology & Products, Inc., including variable spring supports, are shown in the foreground. Piping Technology & Products, Inc. fabricates expansion joints, hot and cold shoes and other items to specification for the piping industry.
Piping Technologies & Products, Inc. has a highly qualified engineering staff to meet the most critical requirements of the industry.
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Variable Springs in a Variety of Sizes
The two pictures above show a variety of spring supports for piping projects. At the top left is a row of spring hanger variables ready to form assemblies with rods, clamps and other hardware. Piping Technology & Products, Inc. manufactures all types of pipe supports and provides complete assemblies packaged and tagged to customer specifications for easy identification by the field crews who install them in power plants, petrochemical plants and paper mills. On the pallet at the top right and scattered through the lower picture are several Type F (base type) variable supports. Special features such as travel stops and the wide range of load and travel requirements result in a large variety of items built to satisfy particular customer requirements.
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30,000 lb. Load Type F Variable Spring Hangers
Pictured above are special Type F variable springs being prepared for shipment overseas. Finite element analysis was used to specify stronger load columns to allow for a possible 30% lateral load. Loads as high as 30,000 pounds were required for some items. These variables also required a special three coat paint (white).
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Engineered Spring Hanger for Reformer Furnace in Venezuela
Engineered spring hangers shown are being calibrated and tested at Piping Technology & Products, Inc., Houston, Texas Facility. A digital load cell is attached to the hydraulic press that guarantees calibration to the exact loads specified. The spring hanger will support the tubes in a reformer furnace destined for Venezuela.
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3400 lb. Load Type F Spring Hangers for Overseas Refinery Plant
The photograph above shows a unique combination of Type F variable springs designed by a client engineer to support large skid-mounted pumps. Piping Technology & Products, Inc. fabricated the connecting assemblies which use variable springs inside pods to support the pump skids from the side. The number of pods varies from size to twelve, depending on the size of the pump, and the loads supported by each type F spring vary from 1800 to 3400 pounds depending on the geometry of the assembly. The distance between rods varies from two to three feet. A total of nine units are being exported to refinery project overseas.
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Specially Designed Vertical Constants
The vertical constant is used when piping stress is critical and pipe is subject to vertical movement in excess of ½ inch due to thermal expansion, and also at locations here it is necessary to avid any transfer of stress from support or onto critical terminals or connecting equipment. These constants are manufactured by Piping Technology & Products, Inc.
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Custom Designed Horizontal Constants
In construction of the horizontal constant, Piping Technology & Products, Inc. uses high quality materials and workmanship throughout, with a liberal factor of safety to insure against temporary shock and overload. Springs hot-wound, double heat treated, pre-set and pre-tested.
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