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12/27/2008 10:31 PM

WHY EXPANSION BENDS ARE PROVIDED in steam line
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12/27/2008 10:52 PM

"WHY EXPANSION BENDS ARE PROVIDED in steam line"

You just answered your own question.

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12/28/2008 12:43 AM

Things expand when they get hot and contract when they get cold(more than you'd think)--The pipes may run long distances and without them a joint would fail or some structural damage would occur.

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12/28/2008 2:53 AM

To provide provisions for pipe expansions when heated lest, they full out from flanges and can fall off from supporting brackets - a deadly devastation. These are known as expansion loops. Today Expansion Bellows & Expansion Slip-Joints have superseded Expansion Loops due obseleted/old technology.

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