Team+5+Final+Design

Our final design is fairly simple. The first thing we do is place a pipe wider than the broken pipe and a flange over the leak. Then we use a flange clamp to make a tight seal around the flanges. Now the oil is flowing through the new pipe, but still going into the ocean. So we put a flange on the other end of the new pipe and then attach a ball valve to it. The point of the ball valve is to stop the flow of the oil. Once everything is secured, the handle on the ball valve can be turned, cutting of the oil. Once our design is in effect, it is BP's job to figure out how they want to get their oil up to the surface.



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Evan

Small Flange

This flange connects the pipe coming from the oil well to the pipe that is leaking. Bolts go through the small holes, and the pipes go through the bigger hole.

Small Pipe

This is the first pipe. It is carrying oil from the well.

Regular Flange This flange is used to connect the larger pipe to the broken pipe. The size of the small holes are the same as the ones on the small flange, so they can be bolted together. The middle hole is larger so that the big pipe fits.

Pipe Before Valve This pipe comes right before the ball valve. It is only there so that there is room to turn the handle of the valve.

Nick T

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The ball valve is a pipe with a metal sphere with a hole in it. The sphere rotates to allow flow in our out. The ball valve is used to control the flow of oil in the pipe.

JOE

NUT: This nut is the nut to the bolt that holds all of the flanges together. BOLT: This bolt holds all the flanges together. PIPE: This is the riser pipe that clamps to the broken peice of pipe.

Shannon Flange Clamp

It clamps around the existing broken flange and the proposed new flange. Interior is lined with gasket material that, when clamped by bolt assembly, will seal the two flanges together to seal the leak.