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SAFETY
Waterhammer is a serious safety issue for any high-production hydraulic facility. Your hydraulic piping system will continue to abnormally pulsate until it causes severe damage and potentially hurts an employee.
RISK MANAGEMENT
Educate yourself on the facts and how you can identify and prevent water hammer. There are several resources including analysis software and equipment companies who can help.
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Add an extension to your team by utilizing a qualified contract consultant to help analyze, model, and simulate your piping system. The long-term maintenance benefits far outweigh the initial cost.
WHAT IS WATERHAMMER?
Who We Are
This website is a resource meant to raise awareness about waterhammer, a major issue within the world of hydraulic piping systems. It is owned and maintained by Applied Flow Technology (AFT) who is an industry-leading provider of waterhammer / surge analysis software called AFT Impulse. With partners in over 80 countries, AFT has helped many companies identify and troubleshoot waterhammer / surge in their systems.
AFT engineers have written and presented several published papers and have spoken at prestigious conferences such as the BHR Group Pressure Surges Conference on waterhammer effects and solutions.
Knowing that this is a specialized phenomena, AFT's goal for this page is to serve as a resource for all engineers around the world to better understand it.
AFT engineers have written and presented several published papers and have spoken at prestigious conferences such as the BHR Group Pressure Surges Conference on waterhammer effects and solutions.
Knowing that this is a specialized phenomena, AFT's goal for this page is to serve as a resource for all engineers around the world to better understand it.
If you work with hydraulic piping systems, you have heard waterhammer in your pipes.
Waterhammer (also called fluid hammer) is a pressure surge caused when a fluid in motion is suddenly forced to stop. The most common occurrence is when a valve closes at an end of a pipeline system. The sudden closure creates a pressure spike / wave 4-8 times the normal flowing pressure which leads to a vacuum condition within the pipe. Undiagnosed water hammer will cause major problems including burst pipes.
Which industries experience waterhammer? Liquid systems containing:
Water
Petroleum and refined products
Chemical products
Refrigerants
Cryogens
Slurries