Have a surface blowndown line 1" in dia. It tees into a 2" forged steel tee. Boiler pressure is about 100 psi. The eroded spot is directly above the tee and the reducer from 1" to 2" is about 6" prior to the tee. Downstream it leads to a drain. The failure occurred after approximately 18 months...
I am doing a preliminary design for an ion exchange system. I have data for the headloss (pressure drop) across the media in the operating direction but how much head would be required to backwash and expand the media to 50%? I would imagine that the ion exchange media would behave similar to a...