As the discussion about ways to reduce carbon emissions continue, Sure Flow Equipment is proud to continue to be part of the solution. Our products end up in a variety of power generation facilities and one of our latest orders was for a very low carbon power generation location, so we are pretty excited to feature it.
Many of our blog posts feature custom fabricated products, especially our dual basket strainers because of their versatility and ability to allow continuous and uninterrupted operation of fluid processing, often with industrial processes in the petroleum and manufacturing industries. Municipal and commercial water processing are also common applications of Sure Flow straining products.
We generally refer to our fabricated strainers as strainers, and the mesh and screen inserts that do the actual straining inside as “baskets” or “screens”.
When a customer has one our strainers installed inline in a production process, they typically order additional or “replacement strainer baskets” or “replacement strainer screens.”
Our temporary cone strainers are a bit of an outlier in the naming or description department because they don’t technically fit our general definition of a strainer. They are closer to a basket or screen, because they are not housed in a larger, rigid outside container.
Cone strainers are generally installed into a fluid processing line directly, often between two flanged ends of pipes.
The images below are for a large order of temporary cone strainers, with four reverses to maximize the open area in minimal space/pipe length. With reverse cone strainers it’s sometimes best to think of taking an exceptional long strainer that would not fit conveniently into most processes and cutting it three times and ending up with 4 equal lengths. You then insert each of the lengths into the next largest section and weld each end. This provides 300% open area with a smaller profile.
We have discussed reverse cone strainers elsewhere on the website:
https://www.sureflowequipment.com/reverse-cone-strainers-packing-so-much-into-a-compact-design/
These 20” temporary cone strainers are CS300 which is our model number, Cone Strainer Class 300.
They are Class 300, which refers to the flange rating. In this case they would be ASME B16.5 Class 300 flanges.
This cone strainer goes between two 20’’ class 300 flanges.
The material is 316 stainless steel, in this case 300 series stainless steel, which is actually unrelated to the Class 300 above which refers to the flange rating.
The strainer was a 5/32’’ perforated stainless steel, with 11-gauge thickness for increased strength. Then against the perforated steel is 40 mesh lining. The mesh lining would not be able to maintain its shape and strength on its own, so we combine it with the 5/32” perforated steel to give it strength and make sure it maintains its rigidity once it’s under pressure.
This was a large order and one that our basket and screen fabricated department took on with great enthusiasm. As Sean gave us the tour of the strainers you could tell he was extremely proud of the final product. An order like this takes weeks to complete, and you could tell it was hard for him to contain his enthusiasm for it. Sure, it’s just an order of fabricated reverse cone strainers, but like all Sure Flow custom orders it’s an opportunity to prove how well you can do your job. There is a pride in workmanship, no, craftsmanship on this and any fabrication order at Sure Flow Equipment.
The fact that these units were going to end up in a low-carbon power generation facility just adds to the great sense of pride this order left with the team.
We hope you’ll allow our expert engineering and fabrication team to share this pride of craftsmanship in one of your upcoming projects. Give us a call, email us, or chat with us on LiveChat. Let’s talk!