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The reason why it is best to use flanges when installing a
measuring instrument is the ease of maintenance afterwards. If the instrument
is ever in need of replacement, you can easily remove it and fit a new one in
its stead.
Flanges are therefore often used to integrate flow and
pressure gauges or temperature probes into the pipework or to place a level
gauge on a vessel. This is the case for numerous applications in all kinds of
sectors, from the (petro) chemical to the food industry. For this purpose, the
flanges must meet several crucial conditions.
Extreme precision is required
If your own company or customer needs flanges to connect a
level gauge or gauge glass, you can often use standard flanges, with standard
dimensions and tolerances. Here, the tolerated deviations do not affect the
measurement result.
However, when you need to monitor pressure, flow or
temperature, you will have to be able to measure even more precisely. This
means that the flanges have to be made even more accurately, with lower margins
for error.
Customization is often needed
Can only minimal deviations of the flange be allowed? Then
there is a good chance that your flanges not only need to be extremely precise
but also made to measure.
The connection of these flanges is standard so that they fit perfectly on the already installed standard flanges of the pipework, with the bolts precisely in the same places. However, the inner work needs to be exactly made-to-measure.
In quality material
This high-precision, made-to-measure flange must always be
manufactured in high-quality material. After all, the instrument is a crucial
part of the piping work. A part that must at all times provide very accurate
measurements, regardless of the dynamic influences to which it is subject.
Ideally also during a long life span.
As a result, the measuring instrument must be made of the
right material, of the right quality. If this is not the case, the instrument
will generate incorrect measurement results due to corrosion after a few months
to years.
Quality ensures safety
One of the reasons why the quality of the flanges is so
essential is safety in the factory. Wherever gauges are installed in pipes or
attached to vessels, there is a potential risk of leakage. Not so much if water
runs through the pipes, under low pressure, but definitely when sulfuric acid
flows through, under high pressure. Then nothing may go wrong.
As long as the flanges are made precisely according to your
specifications, technical drawing and supplied standards, they will reduce that
risk of leakage.
How can you be sure of all this?
How can you be sure that the flanges for your measuring
instruments are guaranteed to remain within the minimum tolerated size
deviations? Or that their interior fits the instrument’s inner diameter
perfectly, minimizing the risk of erroneous measurements? And that the flanges
are made in the right quality material?
With the required tests
On the one hand, of course, by having the necessary
tests carried out, to check that the material of the flanges indeed meets
the standards, to obtain the necessary certificates. The more critical the
application, the further you take it. The test can be carried out by the
manufacturer himself, followed by a second test by an external inspection
organization.
With a thorough audit
The gauge builder can also audit the manufacturer himself.
He will then be able to check the internal quality control system and place
a test order to check whether the made flanges exactly meet his
requirements. A manufacturer who pursues quality will gladly assist in this
process.
With the insights from our checklist
Read the answers in our quality checklist
Which manufacturer can supply you with these flanges?
Extremely accurate in terms of dimensions, precisely
tailored to the interior of your measuring instrument, in guaranteed quality
material, and also in small quantities, because you only need two flanges
per instrument? Also quickly delivered, because you don’t have the custom
made flanges in stock?
These are precisely the assets that make Anita Steel
& Metals unique on the market. Not only do we produce extremely
reliable flanges in all kinds of special shapes and materials according to your
technical plan, but we also do it speedily. On average, we deliver worldwide
within one to two weeks. This swiftness is due to our extensive stock of
semi-finished products and our flexible production, fully focused on fast top
quality.
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