Structural Connectors
Super-Tight is an advance weld less forged steel pressure vessel equipment, design to join two ends (a flanged end to a bare end) of pipes with bolting arrangement. Equipped with internal components of matching hardened steel with precise tolerances in comply with elastomeric sealing systems with accurate chemical and mechanical properties.
Benefits
- Low torque and less number of bolting
- Repeatable and corrective installation without dismantling the mechanism
- Adjustable end gap to tolerate spool length
- Test port feature to test the sealing prior to pressurizing the line
- Tolerant of ovality with independent gripping blocks
- Minimum pipe end preparation
- Sour service compliant
- Environmental seal
- Gripping force control to avoid pipeline damage in oversized OD
- Guiding rods (for easier and faster installation)
- Piggable after installation
- Cathodic protected (25+ years)
- No hot-work permit needed
- Diver and diver-less options
- Mechanical /Hydraulic activation
- Permanent installation
- Single operation with no follow up works
- Internal and external protective coating
- ANSI pressure rating from 400 to 2500
- Sizes from 4" up to 56"
- Forged steel treated material
- 100% hydrotested
- N2, NBR,VITON Graphite and PU elastomer packing
- NDT test and full inspection documentation
- Installation saddle
- Long-term storage packaging offered
Applicable Standards and Codes
- API SPEC 6H, Specification on End Closures, Connectors and Swivels.
- ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, Section VIII, Division 1 and 2.
- ASME Boiler Pressure Vessel Code, Section V Non-Destructive Examination.
- ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, Section IX Welding and Brazing Qualifications.
- NACE MR0175, Part 1 & Part 2 (Resist Sulfide Stress Cracking).
- ASME B31.8 Gas Transmission and Distribution Piping System.
- ASME B31.4 Piping Transportation System for Liquid Hydrocarbons And Other Liquids (General Acknowledgment).
- DNV RP-F104 General Acknowledgment (For Offshore).
- DNV Recommended Practice RP B401, Cathodic Protection Design.
- MSS SP-44, Steel Pipeline Flanges.
- API SPEC 5L, Specification for Line Pipe (General Acknowledgment).
- ASME/ANSI B18.2.1, Square and Hex Bolts and Screws Inch Series.
- Standards of materials including: A193, A194, AISI 4140, AISI 4130, A105, A 516.
- ASME B16.5, Pipe Flanges and Flanged Fittings.
- ASME B16.47, Large Diameter Steel Flanges.
- ASME/ANSI B16.20, Metallic Gaskets for Pipe Flanges - Ring Joint, Spiral Wound and Jacketed.
