If I install CorrView ® at a higher pressure system, will the pressure alone cause the wear surface to fail?
A. Steel is exceptionally strong, and the thickness of carbon steel necessary to hold against line pressure is directly related to its surface area – with smaller diameter surfaces capable of supporting more pressure than wider areas. At some thin wall thickness dimension, however, line pressure forces will cause the front wear surface to fail. Corrosion, however, rarely deteriorates an entire surface uniformly such as if it were sanded down, and pitting is usually the corrosion mechanism found in cooling tower, fire sprinkler, and process water piping. In fact, indication of a pipe failure is usually due to a first few ares of pitting which have breached limited areas of the wall, while leaving the general integrity of the pipe still satisfactory. Large sections of piping rarely wear down uniformly to the point at which they fail in their entirety. At such smaller dimensions such as a pit diameter, even greater pressures can be handled, and therefore not show a failure indication unti
