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    Anti siphon hole in dip pipe

    The dip pipe is configured as you described above on the vessel roof. The liquid going through the pipe is butanol. It's a 2 inch pipe but unfortunately I don't know the hole diameter. My guess was either that the siphon hole is blocked or as you described above that the strength/speed of the...
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    Anti siphon hole in dip pipe

    Hello We use a dip pipe in a distillate receiver vessel with an anti siphon hole. Recently we had an incident whereby vacuum was inadvertently applied to the vessel resulting in suck back of solvent to the vacuum pump. My question is should the anti siphon hole have prevented this or are they...

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