Relationship between viscosity and safety factor of pipe fitting wall thickness
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When transporting high-viscosity fluids at high pressures, can choosing thinner wall thicknesses for pipes and fittings reduce the safety factor? When pressure vessels are subjected to pressure tests, the pressure used in hydrostatic tests is higher than that in pneumatic tests, as gases pose a greater risk at the same pressure level in the event of an accident. Can this be attributed to the fact that the viscosity of gases is lower than that of water?
It must be because the gas has the potential to explode
Pipeline design generally includes a safety factor.
What I want to know is whether the safety factor can be appropriately reduced when the fluid viscosity is high enough
Pneumatic testing generally uses nitrogen or other inert gases, or compressed air; it seems that there are no conditions for explosion