Stop Designing with Deadlegs

Are you unintentionally adding deadlegs to your piping designs?

We all have hopes and dreams but your "future expansion” may actually be a major hazard due to the susceptibility of corrosion in these areas. Please be careful with piping headers and branched connections that are intentionally blinded off after construction to prepare for a future expansion. Many times the expansion plan never materializes and the associated deadleg is never properly accounted for in the site’s integrity program.

What’s wrong with deadlegs? They get hardly any flow and experience higher corrosion rates than the rest of the piping system.

Thanks to Turnaround EPC for providing these great example pictures. They do a great job of evaluating in-service process piping systems and finding deadlegs like these.