Just curious, how/what are you drilling this piece with. I hope you are using a drill press at least. A job like this should never be tackled with a hand drill.
In general, 300 series SS are very susceptible to chloride stress corrosion cracking while some of the hastelloys (there are various hastelloys with varying compositions and amounts of molly) such as c276 and c4 are not. Hastelloys are very easy to weld and unlike titanium, fittings are also...
Coordinates are New Jersey. I seem to recall EPA specifically stating that whenever chemicals are produced for comercial purposes and are on some list plus, exceed a treshhold amount, that one needs to report them. However, if a company or facility employs below some amount of employees, that...
There is a possibility that our Lab may escalate making specialty organic chemicals to a pilot size 50-Gal reactor with rupture disk operating below 14 PSI. Does anyone know whether current environmental regulations would require a scrubber or containment system and if so, any idea as to what...
Applicable sizing codes:
OSHA 29 CFR 1910 subpart H
ASME Section VIII (Rules for construction of Press Vessels)
Compressed Gas Association . Pamphlets S-1.3, S-8.1
NFPA 30, Flammable and Combustible Liquids Code
NFPA 58, Std for Storage % Handling of LPG
API RP 520, Recommended practices for...
Sound like you do not have a handle on the problem(discharge head requirements, suction head requirements, etc) and therefore not sure if the pump will work. Centrifugal pumps work well when properly sized and the 20 gpm range is also well within a typical gear pump range. If the problem is in...
