LAND BREAKER VALVE
LAND BREAKER VALVE
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Does someone know what is a LAND BREAKER VALVE ?
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RE: LAND BREAKER VALVE
Siphon breaker valve used in land drainage? http://www.bedfordpumps.co.uk/downloads/Siphon_Bre...
If you're reading a specification, do what I would do: Call the engineer who wrote it...
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RE: LAND BREAKER VALVE
One of the pipeline engineers will probably give you a better answer...
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RE: LAND BREAKER VALVE
Give us some context.
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RE: LAND BREAKER VALVE
There are lines of brine, water and oil. Only the oil line has a "land breaker valve " on each side of the crossing.
As the pipe is small, it seems to me like a typo - it should read " hand " not "land", meaning a emergency block valve.
But I need to be sure, may be something new ...
RE: LAND BREAKER VALVE
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RE: LAND BREAKER VALVE
ASME B31.4 434.15.2 (a) requires mainline block valves on the upstream side of major river crossings and public water supply reservoirs, and either a block valve or a check valve on the downstream side. 49 CFR Part 195, ―Transportation of Hazardous Liquids by Pipelines,‖ has incorporated ASME/ANSI B31.4 code by reference.
On critical water crossings, some pipeline operators are installing a remotely operated isolation valve on the upstream side of the river crossing and a check valve on the downstream side of the river crossing.
RE: LAND BREAKER VALVE
Maybe, if the pipe is buried, it is describing a valve located where the pipe "breaks" through the ground surface in order to go up and over the water. Thus maybe a literal, but poor, description in colloquial language caused the confusion.
I worked an college internship at a DuPont chemical plant which was quite old and had generations of locals who had made up the workforce over time. Their terminology confused me some, but other student engineers, who weren't fluent in hillbilly-ese, weren't able to make any sense of it. There was one guy from Indonesia, that poor guy was completely lost.
Maybe that language is properly called hillbillian.
RE: LAND BREAKER VALVE
Thank you, guys.