AUTEXIER 149 Quick Start Manual

MANFACTURER OF INDUSTRIAL MARINE AND OIL & GAS VALVES
IN BRONZE AND ALUMINIUM-BRONZE
93, rue Louis Blanc - 02300 CHAUNY - FRANCE
Tel: +33 (0)3.23.52.02.86 - Fax: +33 (0)3.23.39.52.28
www.autexier.fr
Instructions of assembly and maintenance for visual level controller
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I) Checking at the delivery
Check at receipt that the packaging has not been damaged, that the delivered visual level controller is in accordance
with your order and that the material is not damaged.
II) Storage
The visual level controllers can reach the site several months before commissioning. Performance may be degraded
if special care is not taken in their storage and protection.
It is recommended to store the visual level controllers in a clean, closed, protected from weather and projections of
sand, dust and other solid particles. Leave them as much as possible in their original packaging. The plugs,
protections threads, plastic envelopes, will be removed at the time of installation. Avoid impacts on the sealing
surfaces of the threads.
III) Assembly of the visual level controller
1) The visual level controllers must be handled with particular care. Prevent the ingress of foreign bodies in the visual
level controllers reflex glass indicators during installation and operation.
2) This equipment can not be installed in an explosive area.
IV) Instructions
1) It is strictly forbidden to neutralize the mechanism of the visual level controllers.
2) Any foreign body must block the entries of the visual level controllers.
3) The visual level controllers must be installed in a place where there is no risk of shock or water hammer which
would endanger working.
4) Insulate the equipment if the temperature of contact requires it (for staff in case of explosive atmosphere in or out
of the equipment), and allow only the access to the approved staff. For the equipment, it is imperative to stay in a
beach temperature indicated on the identification plate (Rep. 3) or failing on the product data sheet. Take care not to
have fluid in changing state (gel) may damage the tube.
5) It is imperative to respect the conditions of use stated (pressure, temperature, fluid) during your request to our
services (no corrosive fluids or fluids which may cause significant wear, no unstable fluids from which decomposition
may cause risk, do not use several fluids likely to react each other to generate derivatives leading to an explosive
atmosphere or may not viscous fluids solidify at a moment or another).
6) Limit as much as possible the tensions due to failure alignments of the piping connections system.
7) It is necessary to eliminate any previous and post pressure before removing the level indicator and be sure not to
create an explosive inside or outside the reflex glass indicator. The staff operating the setting up of the visual level
controller will be trained to perform this operation and will wear all necessary protections linked to the carried fluid.
8) Do not let the mechanism in intermediate position for a long time to avoid any phenomenon of cavitation and/or
erosion.