Flange Guard: What is it?

Kipas Repair JB (noreply@blogger.com)
I stumbled upon flange guards not when I was a process engineer, but rather recently when a practical student mentioned about it few months back. I goggled right away and found the answer. I realized that it is something to do with the joints and threaded fittings in the form of flanges, unions, T joints and elbows, sockets or expansion joints for any piping system. Then I asked myself why flange guard was not installed in the plant I worked before. It was then that I realized that it is more re