When you need to make a cost-effective, safe, and controlled-condition entry into a pipe or vessel operating at a pressure or vacuum -- without losing product or interrupting system operations -- the Team Hot Tap is the best way to do it.
Team's hot taps allow drilling and cutting into pressurized operations or lines, and have been used extensively and successfully world-wide for making branch connections into operating heat exchangers, vessels, columns, tanks, a pipelines.
They can be performed on lines from 1/2" to 48" in diameter, in temperatures from cyrogenic to 1350oF (732oC), and on pressures from vacuum to 4300 psig (296 Bar). Recently two 2500 psig hot taps were performed on 6" carbon steel pipes in carbon dioxide service.
Tapping operations by experienced Team engineers and technicians begin only after detailed coordination and planning have been completed with plant engineers. Team hot tap applications include the following:
- Prevent shutdowns
- New construction tie-ins
- Installation of by-pass systems
- Pressure and vacuum gauge installation
- New pipeline construction
- Sight glass installations
- Quality control sample points
- Valve installations
- Thermowell coupling installation
- Orifice taps for flow meters
- Offshore and underwater service
- Pipe inspection
- Temperature indicators
- Sparger installations
