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EXPLORE the WORLD of PIPING

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Reinforced Branch Connection Set-On type
Where a Reinforced Branch Connection is required?
With large pipe dimensions, it is customary, to form a TEE intersection by cutting a hole in the
straight run (the header) and welding in the leg perpendicular (the branch), this is called a
STUB-IN.

Similarly, nozzles are installed on pressure vessels by cutting a hole in the side of the vessel
and welding in an appropriately sized pipe to form the nozzle. These intersections ensure a
"hole weakening" on the vessel or piping system, due to the metal removed and the stress
concentration created.

In critical systems, this weakness must be compensated, and can be restored with a
Reinforcing Pad, to strengthen the piping branch connection or the pressure vessel nozzle.

Branch Connection with Reinforcing Pad (Set-On type)

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Dimensions Reinforcing Pad
For the dimensions of a Reinforcing Pad you can handle as rule:
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1. Material = same material as the run pipe
2. Width = half a diameter of the branch pipe (at least 50 mm)
3. Thickness = same thickness as the run pipe, with a min. of 3 mm and a max. of 20 mm

However, it is customary for most companies a so-called BRANCH TABLE handling. This


document de ned the methods, which must be applied, if a branch (with or without a
Reinforcing Pad) in a run pipe must be made. It is also usually present a speci cation that
de nes own dimensions, because each company has their own criteria. (e.g. type of product,
pressure and temperature, national regulations, local markets)

Installation of Reinforcing Pad
Below an example for the assembly of a Reinforcing Pad.

Determine the location of the branch, and make a round hole in the run pipe where the
diameter should be equal to the inside diameter of the branch.
Finish the branch equal to outside diameter of run pipe and make a welding bevel of
around 30°.
Place the branch with a gap by about 3 to 4 mm about the hole location on the run pipe,
and tack weld the branch on a su cient number of places. Then the new branch can be
completely welded.
If de weld is ready, depending on the requirements Non Destructive Examination (NDE)
must be done.
Then the Reinforcing Pad can be placed by slide him over the branch. The pad must be
positioned so that around the branch, is overall the same open space, and that the pad
is fully in line with the run pipe. Tack weld the pad on a su cient number of places, and
after that the pad can be inside and outside fully welded; depending on the prescribed
quality requirements, then again NDE must be done.
Attention! -- Cited as a ange at the branch pipe is welded, you must obviously make
sure that the ring is placed earlier. You will not be the rst and probably not the last, with
a Reinforcing Pad in his hands, and discovered that the sequence of action was not
entirely correct.

Weep-Hole
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On a number of images, you might be have seen a round hole
in the Reinforcing Pad. This is a "Weep Hole" and may have
multiple functions.
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Vent hole.
Opinions about the use of this hole varies, and therefore I give
2 possible uses of a weep hole:
By threading the hole, a test gauge can be thread for a
"air/soap" test to check for leakage. The thread, mostly1/4"
NPT will be used.

Weep holes serves as a vent during welding for entrapped


gasses and prevents the Reinforcing Pad from becoming a
"jacketed" vessel.

Weep holes in Reinforcing Pads shall be sealed upon


completion of pressure test.

NPT is the best known and most widely used connection where the pipe thread provides both the
mechanical joint and the hydraulic seal. NPT has a tapered male and female thread which seals with
Te on® tape or jointing compound.
ASME B1.20.1 covers dimensions and gaging of NPT pipe threads for general purpose applications.

ASME B31.3, in paragraph 328.5.4 says:


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A vent hole shall be provided at the side (not at the crotch) of any pad or saddle to reveal
leakage in the weld between branch and run and to allow venting during welding and heat
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© Werner Sölken 2008 - 2019. All rights reserved.

The industrial revolution allowed us, for the rst time, to start replacing human labour with machines. VITALIK
BUTERIN

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