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02/02/2021

THE WORLD’S LARGEST DESALINATION PLANT WILL HAVE EXPANSION JOINTS MANUFACTURED BY BIKAR

Bikar is proud to announce another supply for the biggest desalination plant worldwide, located in Middle East

A huge number of rubber and metal expansion joints have been successfully designed, manufactured and tested for the above mentioned project. Due to the large number of units, Bikar agreed several partial deliveries in order to support site urgent works.

The material supplied in this last delivery is made up of our customized solution named BF-PPS. This kind of expansion joint can be adapted to customer´s needs in terms of dimensions, materials, coating, accessories…etc.

This expansion joint order, as always, was designed according to FSA Technical Handbook Guidelines, and tested hydrostatically before packing.

Material supplied:

  • Sizes: DN600-DN3000 mm
  • Type: Single and Double Wave design
  • Design Pressure: 10 barg
  • Test Pressure: 15 barg
  • Operating Temperature: +90/25 °C

Here we show you some pictures of these expansion joints before being packed to head to the Middle East. Once we receive some pictures from the site, we will show them as well.

Do not hesitate to contact Bikar team for your Desalination projects.

 

19/01/2021

HYDROTEST FOR RUBBER EXPANSION JOINT PACKAGE CARRIED OUT FOR AN INMIMENT SUPPLY

Bikar Quality team recently performed the agreed hydrostatic test to the requested expansion joints.

During the same, the selected expansion joints were tested according to the FSA (Fluid Sealing Association) Guidelines. That means, they were tested up to 1.5 times over design pressure (10 minutes each).

In this specific project, we tested a 10% per item witnessed by external inspector, the rest was tested internally. This is a usual requirement for this kind of high demanding water projects

The scope of the test was the following:

·DN3000 (10bar)

·DN1400 (10bar)

·DN800 (15bar)

Once the test is successfully performed, the items design is finally approved and ready to be painted (if required) or packed in case of not having any kind of coating included.

Our clients are always more than welcome to see and check the performed test in order to validate with them the proposed design.

 

09/12/2020

RUBBER EXPANSION JOINTS READY TO BE SHIPPED TO MIDDLE EAST DESALINATION PLANT

Bikar continues its specialization in high demanding industry as Desalination with this customized order ready to be shipped to site.

This set of expansion joints has been designed, produced, tested and packed according to the client and consultant existing specifications and following the International Standard and Guidelines as FSA Technical Handbook

The supplied material consists of BF-PPS rubber expansion joints with sizes from ND250 up to ND2000.


 

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