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1.Determine the hot load required and the pipe movement (up or down).
2.Estimate the travel range from the catalogue.
3.Select the smallest spring size which has the hot load within the working travel (mid range).
4.Ensure that the cold load lies within the working range of the spring i.e. between the two dark
black lines shown in the selection chart.
Calculate the cold load as follows:
Cold Load = Operating Load + Movement x Spring Rate (For pipe movement up)
Cold Load = Operating Load Movement x Spring Rate (For pipe movement down)
5.If the Cold load lies beyond the working range in the selection chart, then select higher spring
size
or the next travel range.
6. Check the variability in selected spring
Generally for non critical systems, the variability is limited to 25% through out the total travel.
For critical systems such as steam connections terminating at turbines and pipes connected to
rotating equipment
Like compressor etc. variability is limited to 10%.If the variation exceeds the allowed value,
choose higher size spring or smaller spring rate at same load range.
7.Select the type and check the feasibility of the spring depending on space available and type of
structure available.
1.
During spring selection at a particular node the following auxiliary spreadsheet appears. The
setting of this spreadsheet is to be done as illustrated in below diagram.
The option 5 above usually results in the highest adjacent hanger loads, but should only be used
when the horizontal distance between the hanger and the anchor is within about 4 pipe diameters
as shown in Fig 4.
For can type springs the spring height should be kept minimum from stability point of
view. If spring height is less the moment on spring will reduce and tilting of spring (Fig.
5) can be avoided or significantly minimized.
The spring which has lower spring rate will have lower load variation.
While designing the spring hanger the sustained sagging should be minimized within +/-1
mm so that original piping system is not strained much.