Brodie BiRotor BA-89, Installation And Operation Manual

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Essential Instructions
Brodie Meter Co., LLC designs, manufactures and tests its products to meet many national and
international standards. Because these instruments are sophisticated technical products, you must
properly install, use and maintain them to ensure they continue to operate within their normal
specifications. The following instructions must be adhered to and integrated into your safety program
when installing, using and maintaining Brodie Meter Co., LLC products.
• Read all instructions prior to installing, operating, and servicing the product. If this instruction
manual is not the correct manual, telephone 1-912-489-0200 and the requested manual will be
provided. Save this instruction manual for future reference.
• If you do not understand any of the instructions, contact your Brodie representative for clarification.
• Follow all warnings, cautions, and instructions marked on and supplied with the product.
• Inform and educate your personnel in the proper installation, operation, and maintenance of the
product.
• Install your equipment as specified in the installation instructions of the appropriate instruction
manual and per applicable local and national codes. Connect all products to the proper electrical
and pressure sources.
• To ensure proper performance, use qualified personnel to install, operate, update, program, and
maintain the product.
• When replacement parts are required, ensure that qualified people use replacement parts
specified by the manufacturer. Unauthorized parts and procedures can affect the product’s
performance and place the safe operation of your process at risk. Look-alike substitutions may
result in fire, electrical hazards, or improper operation.
• Ensure that all equipment doors are closed and protective covers are in place, except when
maintenance is being performed by qualified persons, to prevent electrical shock and personal
injury.
• When installing this equipment, bolting must conform to the requirements of ASME B16.5
paragraph 5.3 and to the material requirements of ASME B16.5 Table 1B. Gaskets must conform
to the requirements of ASME B16.20.
• It is the customer’s responsibility to ensure that piping or other attachments connected to the
BiRotor Meter do not place adverse stresses on the BiRotor Meter. The design of the BiRotor
Meter has not been assessed for the effects of traffic, wind or earthquake loading.
• It is the customer’s responsibility to provide fire prevention measures and equipment per local
regulations.
• The BiRotor Meter has been designed without allowance for corrosion. The customer should
implement a periodic inspection and maintenance program to ensure that no part of the BiRotor
Meter’s pressure-retaining components has been subjected to corrosion.
• Use of this equipment for any purpose other than its intended purpose may result in property
damage and/or serious personal injury or death.
Warning
Do not exceed the maximum working pressure of equipment as stamped on the
nameplates. It is the customer’s responsibility to install this equipment in a system that
provides adequate over-pressure protection.
Notice
Lines should be flushed thoroughly to rid piping of potentially damaging foreign material
such as welding bead, pipe scale, etc. before the meter is placed in service. A strainer of
proper size should be installed upstream of the meter to protect it from