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Waterhammer Testing
Fauske & Associates can provide a turn key solution to address your waterhammer issues.
Our experimental facilities are designed to conduct noncondensable gas-water or steam-water waterhammer tests for conditions of interest in plants. Currently of particular interest are those situations where a noncondensable gas volume is formed in the pump discharge piping.The tests are conducted in an extended length piping configuration of the plant system.Most importantly, the tests are run for a range of initial void sizes in the piping high point. Waterhammer pressures are measured during the experiments and translated to plant conditions. This can be used to set he limits of acceptable gas accumulation. Different components have been tested at our facilities, including different piping high point configurations in terms of riser, downcomer, and high point lengths, the influence of a check valve and mini-flowline, multiple void distribution, system rigidity, and flow visualization through transparent PVC piping. The flow visualization was performed as an aid in model development.
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