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Cold Pull: How cold pull is applied at site and its drawback
May 6, 2017 No Comment
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The effectiveness of cold spring is generally considered to be questionable. It should not be used indiscriminately. Although it may provide an
easy way out for an analyst to solve an equipment load problem, there are a number of considerations while adopting cold spring in a piping
system. Following points shall shed light on these factors:-
1. Extra anchor points, to hold the cold sprung line in position till start up, are required. Also extra hoists are required to move supports in
desired direction during installation. These all arrangements make cold springing a costly act.
2. Cold spring applied to low temperature lines does not provide great benefit as it does in high temperature lines.
3. Theoretical cold spring gap, which can be very helpful in low temperature lines, is very difficult to measure and control in the field.
4. Due to small displacements, the effectiveness of the cold spring is unpredictable and might even produce a load which is damagingly
high to the equipment.
5. After the plant has been operated, deliberately installed cold spring can be misunderstood to be piping misalignment when disconnected
during shut down and corrected.
6. During repair, caution should be exercised when cutting into such lines as the line will be in a state of stress when cold. Proper
anchoring on both sides of cut have to be planned to prevent possible accidents.
7. Installation procedure for every type of support adjacent to cold spring is different. Excessive care should be taken during stress analysis
about knowing exact restraint displacements to achieve cold spring. Same care has to be replicated at site during construction. Any
erroneous interpretation can be a starting point for disastrous situation.
8. Most of the times, the support adjustment/displacement can extend to few more supports than just one adjacent support. The same has
to be considered and understood both at analysis and construction stage.
9. Special support drawing showing necessary arrangements to achieve the cold springing during erection (with the help of nearest
structural member) shall be made and the loads on the respective members shall be informed to civil through piping load data.
10. It is required to write installation instructions of cold springing on the special support drawing and same shall be supervised at site.
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