Industrial Piping in Food Industry

Safe and Hygienic Industrial Piping:

Food is an important aspect for any living thing. Food is a great enjoyment too. Food is harvested and is immediately consumed. The balance after human consumption goes mostly wasted.  This waste can be minimised and can be brought down to its least. Food is to be processed and preserved.

We have a lot of food factories to process, modify, preserve and facilitate transport of various food items. So that food is made available to more number of people for a longer time and to a larger geographical area. Processing causes nutrient loss. Yet by minimising this loss food has to be processed and preserved for future use. To transport food available at one place to another where it’s not there, we have to process and pack it properly.

There’s an absolute necessity in food industry too for expert piping works. The scope of industrial piping in food industry includes laying safe and hygienic pipe systems for bulk food stuff handling, dust removal, temperature control and proper ventilation of the premises.

The core focus of industrial piping in food industries will be on the installation of steel pipes in closed hygienic systems (CIP/SIP Cleanable). The cabling and electrical cabinets are done with great focus on hygiene.

Stainless steel is more or less inactive to most environments. Hence in equipment and in piping, stainless steel of varying qualities are used in food industry. The chromium oxide layer which gets formed on the surface of the vessels or pipes is more or less uniform, hard and prevents corrosive action. It’ll appear smooth and whole, all over the surface and have excellent mechanical properties. In case this chromium oxide layer disintegrates the steel vessel will corrode.

Choosing the steel quality is dependent on the load to which the surfaces is subjected and the environment to which it’s being exposed. Steel with maximum carbon content, around 0.05%, is found to be ideal in most conditions.

The piping must be round and fittings must have round branch pipes. There must not be any oval cross sections at the ends of neither pipes nor fittings.

The inside surface must be from scratches, pores, pits, corroded surfaces or other such surface defects. Both the inside and outside of the steel vessels and pipes must be clean.

Food companies are facing a lot of problems in their products, which will lead to a lot of public concern and litigation due to the reasons of inferior hygienic conditions. So to produce high quality products at the lowest expenses the piping though which they convey the food stuffs for processing and the containers they store these finished or intermediary products must be clean and safe. Piping should be clean and clear.

The welding process must be done as specified for the purpose. Only an experienced well informed welder can do it. Above everything the steel pipes and fixtures must facilitate free flow of the materials without clogging. Must be easy to clean and replace.

There are a lot other specifications. Only expert can ensure the right conditions.

The need for SIPCO in Food and Allied industry

Southern Industrial Piping Company, SIPCO has done it many times and at many places. The particular conditions prevailing in food industry is quite familiar to SIPCO engineers. In fact they are well versed in piping works of all sorts.

So in industrial piping, where you can never afford to take risks, where trial and error method will never work, call SIPCO. SIPCO is an experienced expert in Industrial Piping of all sorts in food product manufacturing factories.

Whether it’s for the licence renewal of an existing plant or for erecting up a new plant in industrial piping works in food industries, consult first with SIPCO.

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Industrial Piping in Atomic Reactors

Atomic Reactors

The nucleus of an atom is a powerhouse. It stores immense energy and has an immense store of information. If an atom in its nucleus contains this much energy, why can’t we human beings make it a source of energy we need for our various activities.

Perhaps this may be the causal mental activity which turned men to an atom to produce energy they require for getting innumerable works of theirs done.  They turned their attention to Nuclear Power.

The Technology

Nuclear Power involves a technology which helps men to extract usable energy from the nucleus of an atom through controlled nuclear reaction. We can release a lot of energy from the atom by fission- breaking into pieces or fusion – joining together many pieces to one single body. Though through fission and fusion, we can produce the energy we normally use nuclear fission to produce energy. The only method until now used to produce energy from atoms is fission; though one day we may be able to do it through fusion too. Radioactive decay can also be one method one day, to produce energy from atom nuclei.

The facility where large-scale nuclear energy is produced is called nuclear reactors, though once upon a time it was termed nuclear pile.

The World Scenario

The world is becoming more and more energy hungry.  Fourteen percentage of this total hunger of the whole world for energy was met by nuclear power in 2007. In 2007 the IAEA – International Atomic Energy Agency- reported there are 439 nuclear power reactors in operation in the world spread in 31 countries.

Natural calamities in Japan in 2007 caused many nuclear plants in the country to be closed. The similar kind of closures of plants happened in France and Germany too. This caused a drastic reduction in power generation of the world through nuclear fission. The Usual outage of the world was drastically reduced.

The Process

The method of power generation in nuclear plants is much like that of fossil-fuel propelled power plants. Water is heated to be steam and this steam is used to rotate a turbine power generator.  The energy required to make steam is from controlled combustion of fossil fuels in thermal plants. There is no combustion in atomic reactors. A uranium atom is split into two. The constant fission of uranium produces a continuous supply of manageable amounts of heat.  The thus released immense manageable amount of heat energy is trapped to heat water and convert it to steam. The rest of the process in both methods is almost the same in principle.

Types of nuclear reactors

There are two types of nuclear reactors.

Pressurised Water Reactor-PWR- In Pressurised Water Reactors, water is heated under pressure, so that the temperature rises to the required level, but never boils.  This heated water is circulated through special stainless steel pipe tubing in the steam generator. The hot water as a whole is thus converted to high-pressure steam and it, in turn, rotates the mighty power turbine generators.

The second type is the Boiling Water Reactor-BWR. In Boiling Water Reactor the heat energy from fission of Uranium atoms is used to boil the water. The steam from the boiling water is collected and sent to the turbine. The steam is condensed to form water again and is recycled in both PWRs and BWRs.

The Nature of Reactors

The conditions prevailing in both these types of generators are extremely hostile. It operates under constantly high pressure and temperature, continuously. It requires finest stainless steel pipes and other materials to manage the purpose under this hostile a condition.  It requires finest men also to do the water and steam piping works.

High-quality materials and expert workmanship is the only thing which keeps every reactor in India or abroad running. You cannot take risks in this regard. The stainless steel piping in an atomic reactor must be done by a real expert.

Underground Pipes

Laying and maintaining the pipes in different materials at an atomic power station is no kids play. Sub-geo or underground piping works in a nuclear reactor has to be laid with extreme care so that it never causes a leak of radioactive material into the groundwater natural reserves. It must be fabricated in such a way that it is protected against corrosion and other such damages.

It must be able to account for the effects of aging of the plant system including passive, long-lived safety related installations. Buried piping calls for greater care and attention in this regard. Only an expert fabricator can work efficiently with the Nuclear Buries Piping.

Large Quantity Storage Vessels

Water, radioactive materials, other intermediaries etc. must be stored in storage tanks of particular specifications in atomic plants.  They are fabricated to specifications; are installed and maintained well by people specially trained for the purpose.  All these works call for additional precision levels.

The need for SIPCO in Atomic Reactors

Southern Industrial Piping Company, SIPCO has done it many times and at many places. So in industrial piping, where you can never afford to take risks, where trial and error method will never work, call SIPCO. SIPCO is an experienced expert in Industrial Piping of all sorts in Atomic Reactors.

Whether it’s for the licence renewal of an existing plant or for erecting up a new plant, in nuclear industrial piping works, consult first with SIPCO.

For more details please call 9740107677 or mail us at sipcochengannur@gmail.com, sipco.jsw@gmail.com Our facebook page

Our other pages Industrial Piping in Oil Refineries  Industrial Piping in Steel Plant  Industrial piping in  Food Industry  Industrial Piping in Thermal Power stations Industrial Piping in Atomic Reactors Contact us  Our e-brochure   works we have done Fastening relations we are experts in Industrial Piping in Fertiliser Plants