TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR CIP DESIGN

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