Hot Tapping: Another Name for Line Stopping

When I first heard this word, I was confused that what does this word mean? As, I am a curious person I thought to search the meaning out of this term. I hadn’t that that a word could have different meaning. As, every other word in English have synonyms or have different names. This term Hot Tapping too have another term named Pressure Tapping. It is a special technique of connecting a new pipeline or vessels to the existing one.

In a simpler way, one does not need to stop the work that one has been doing. In the same pipeline the new work can be carried out. Without shutting down the existing work that you were doing new connection can be fitted. It not only saves your time but it also saves your energy. As, this mechanical work much more power is needed to carry the heavy pipes, isn’t it? But with the help of hot tapping you can do your existing work without putting extra pressure on your mind and your body.

 This work can be on sewage pipes, chemicals, and natural gas, pipes that carry water and even are useful in operating services like petroleum products.  Get this service done by Allied Pipe Freezing at minimal cost.

Know about Freezing Pipe

Freezing Pipe is a medium of isolating some part of the pipe work system by which contents of the pipe are free zed being divided in a short section. By doing this, the contents of the pipe form a solid over the existing pipeline.

It even helps to avoid the draining system down where in many of the cases without stopping the present work and without any kind of hindrance in the existing pipeline new connection can be joined. You do not need to stop the work. Isn’t it great that you do not need to stop work? Not only it saves your time but also it saves your energy too. With the help of freezing pipe, certain specific part of the pipes are isolated where it is very much sure to carry out works such as maintenance work, repairing work, molding or forming some kind of changes in the pipe itself, detecting the leakage problem, testing the pressure and other kinds of works that are related with the work of hot tapping.

In some of the cases, carbon dioxide which is gaseous in nature and solid material is used to taste the situation of the pipe. As, it is not as cool as the liquid Nitrogen freezing the pipe takes more time. But the thing that is beneficial is that it does not expose the material of the pipe to low temperature.