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TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR CIP DESIGN
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Always remember that water runs downhill ...
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... and that it is easier to pump water into a tank, than
to pump it out.
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Pitch tank CIPR connections continuously to pump inlet.
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Design to close all valves against flow.
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Avoid 3-port divert valves like the common plague.
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Keep tank head nozzles few in number, short in length,
and large in diameter, for they are not easy to clean.
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Locate CIP systems in (near) and (when possible) beneath
the center of CIP loads
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Eliminate all "Dead Ends" (branches of more than 1-1/2
pipe diameters) for they will trouble You forever.
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Pitch all lines to easily opened drain points.
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Design and install supports to eliminate "friendly" piping
that waves when starting pumps and opening and closing valves, for friendly
systems are short-lived.
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