Sentence examples for rupture disk from inspiring English sources

Officials suspect that the mud could have been escaping from the well far below the ocean floor, possibly through a rupture disk, a built-in weak point in the steel pipe that lines the well.

Douglas E. True, the president of ERIN Engineering and Research of Walnut Creek, Calif., said: "In some cases you can argue it might be better to have a rupture disk.

He said he continued to believe that a passive system, like one using a rupture disk, would work better and could be set to rupture at a pressure just slightly less than the pressure at which the containment would rupture.

After a depressurization accident the pressure of the confinement increases and the rupture disk will break.

There is a rupture disk of overpressure protection in the confinement wall.

A rupture disk was installed between the reactor and condenser vapour pipeline.

One way would be using rupture disks, relatively thin sheets of steel that break and allow venting without any operator command or moving parts when the pressure reaches a specified level.

Three case studies for the design of vent piping for rupture disks support the proposed method.

Emergency venting systems, through relief valves or rupture disks, are discussed along with the design equations following the American Petroleum Institute (API), OSHA, and the National Fire Protection Association NFPAA) standards.

The results of the accident analyses show that the SMART provides the inherent over-pressure protection capability for design basis accidents without actuation of any protection devices such as safety valves, rupture disks, etc.

The dynamic response of the process when various failures occur is critical to the design of safety systems for the process (alarms, overrides, interlocks, safety valves and rupture disks).