Technical articles, project completions, code updates, and industry commentary from the SK Metalindo team.
Two-phase steam, chloride attack, and seismic motion all push expansion joints harder than refinery service. Here is the specification checklist we run for every geothermal inquiry.
Four SS316L vessels — two scrubbers and two flash tanks — passed final TPI clearance and shipped under over-dimensional permit to the Bandung plateau.
Spiral wound and ring joint gaskets fall under B16.20. Non-metallic flat gaskets fall under B16.21. The picker matrix and where teams get it wrong on RFQs.
1.5 mm, 3 mm, 6 mm — the defaults you see in specs hide real assumptions about service life, inspection frequency, and material chemistry. A practical walk-through.
Published RUPTL targets imply a multi-GW geothermal build-out. We unpack the implications for scrubbers, separators, flash tanks, and the supporting steel.
Movement, pressure, temperature, media, and end connection. Five fields that, when filled correctly, eliminate ninety percent of expansion-joint RFQ back-and-forth.
Pumps, gauges, calibration certificates, and a long, quiet wait. A walk-through of a hydrotest at 1.43 × design pressure from fill to certificate.
Post-weld heat treatment is governed by thickness, material P-number, and service. The decision matrix as we apply it on the shop floor.
Seismic reconciliation between AMETank and Hexagon TANK 12 is closed; the package is now in fabrication-ready status with the EPC consortium.