This project provides a detailed analysis of varying flow rates to prove that dead-legs in a piping system, ultimately, cannot adequately be cleaned in a pharmaceutical setting. A test station, equipped with dead-legs at varying orientations, was designed, fabricated, and tested to demonstrate insufficient cleaning of the dead-legs at a wide range of flow rates. This examination is beneficial to the industry in exploring the complications that dead-legs can pose on a system.

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Creator

• Nassar, Jacquelyn Ann
• Eccher, Brandon Michael
• Smith, Arianna Luz

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042617-184455

Advisor

• Kmiotek, Stephen J.

Year

• 2017

Sponsor

• Pfizer, Inc.

Date created

• 2017-04-26

Location

• Andover

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Chemical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright