PRESSURE RELIEF DEVICE

• US 20090173393A1
• Filed: 06/21/2007
• Published: 07/09/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: PII Pipetronix GmbH
• Original Assignee: Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Research & In
• Inventors: Markus, Wolfgang, Grabert, Stefan
• Application Number:
  US12/304,166
• Publication Number:
  US 20090173393A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 137/68.230
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 17/162 of the non reverse-buckling-type F16K17/1633 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/1714 Direct pressure causes disc to burst

Abstract

The invention relates to a device for internal pressure relief of a pig movable through a pipeline and/or some other pressure-tight sealed working implement introduced into an external pressure medium and having a pressure relief valve. To increase the classification for operational reliability, it is proposed that at least one rupture disk be placed downstream of the pressure relief valve in the pressure relief direction.

Claims

1. Device for internal pressure relief of a pig movable through a pipeline and/or a working implement introduced in pressure-tight sealed manner into an external pressure medium and having a pressure relief valve, characterized by at least one rupture disk placed downstream of the pressure relief valve in the pressure relief direction.

2. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that compared with its inside facing the pressure relief direction, the rupture disk withstands an at least ten times higher pressure on its outside.

3. Device according to claim 1, characterized by at least one flashback arrester, which is arranged in series with the pressure relief valve and rupture disk.

4. Device according to claim 3, characterized in that the flashback arrester is positioned upstream of pressure relief valve and/or upstream of rupture disk in the pressure relief direction.

5. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the rupture disk opens as from a pressure of approximately 20 bar acting on its inside in the pressure relief direction.

6. Device according to claim 1, characterized by at least one filter, which is arranged in series with the pressure relief valve and rupture disk.

7. Device according to claim 6, characterized in that a filter is provided as the last element of the row in the pressure relief direction.

8. Device according to claim 6, characterized in that a filter is placed between pressure relief valve and rupture disk in the pressure relief direction.

9. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the pressure relief valve, rupture disk and optionally flashback arrester are integrated into a common housing.

10. Device according to claim 9, characterized by a sealing ring for the pressure seal of the area of the pressure relief valve adjacent to the inner wall of housing.

11. Device according to claim 9, characterized in that the housing has a main section (9), an intermediate part, a cover section and a pressure-tight connection between at least two of the individual sections, particularly between the main section and intermediate part.

12. Device according to claim 11, characterized in that the pressure-tight connection is formed by welding individual sections of housing.

13. Device according to claim 11, characterized in that the pressure relief valve and flashback arrester are integrated into the main section of housing.

14. Device according to claim 10, characterized in that at least one filter is integrated into the cover section and/or main section of housing.

15. Device according to claim 10, characterized in that the rupture disk is integrated in pressure-tight manner into the intermediate part of housing.

16. Device according to claim 9, characterized in that the housing has a thread for pressure-tight connection to the implement housing.

17. Device according to claim 16, characterized in that the thread conforms with the provisions of a pressure-resistant encapsulation according to European standard EN 60079-1.

18. Device according to claim 3, characterized in that the flashback arrester conforms with the regulations concerning a pressure-resistant encapsulation according to European standard EN 60079-1.

19. Explosion-protected housing of a pig movable through a pipeline and/or some other pressure-tight sealed working implement introduced into an external pressure medium, characterized by at least one device according to claim 1 for removing internal overpressures in the outer area of the housing.

20. Device according to claim 6, characterized in that at least one filter is integrated into the cover section and/or main section of housing.