Keckley Company

Benefits & Features

Pipeline y-strainers & wye strainers offer a compact and economical means of straining debris from pipelines. Keckley Y-strainers are furnished standard with drain connections and pipe plugs. Most commonly, Y-strainers are fitted in the field with nipples and drain valves to permit the strainer screen to be cleaned while the system is still in process. By opening the drain valve while the system is under pressure, the debris trapped in the screen is "blown" through this connection helping to reduce system shut-downs for maintenance and cleaning.

Benefits & Features

Keckley simplex pipeline basket strainers are used in piping applications where a greater screen area to pipe area ratio is required. By providing a greater screen area than a Y-strainer, you are optimizing the total open area and minimizing potential pressure loss through the basket. Simplex strainers are used to protect pipelines, valves, and spray nozzles from water flow problems. They reduce the necessity for frequent cleaning and provides a cost and time saving benefit with less downtime.

Unlike the ability of a Y-strainer to "blow" the debris through the drain connection, a basket strainer requires the removal of the basket for cleaning. Therefore production must stop for cleaning the basket.

Benefits & Features

Keckley duplex continuous flow basket strainers are used in continuous flow applications where the process cannot be shut down for cleaning. Some examples are lubrication systems, industrial or marine oil burners, chemical plants, cooling lines in power plants, compressors, condensers, ink supply lines to printing presses, and for water lines to cooling towers and pumping stations where water is taken from lakes or rivers. The primary benefit of a duplex basket strainer is to provide uninterrupted downtime for maintenance and cleaning.

Benefits & Features

Keckley offers a wide variety of fabricated y-strainers, simplex basket strainers, tee strainers, duplex basket strainers, multi-basket strainers, line blinds, suction diffusers, temporary cone, temporary basket, and temporary plate strainers to fit any application imaginable.

When cast strainers are unable to offer a suitable answer, specially fabricated strainers can provide the solution for that unique application. Whether there is limited space or existing piping requirements, Keckley can offer a one-of-a-kind fabricated option.

Benefits & Features

The Keckley Company offers many industrial and commercial pipeline strainer options to include epoxy coatings, galvanizing, oxygen cleaning, special tapings, specialty flange connections, steam jacketing, and NDE testing. These specialty strainer options are available for Y-strainers, simplex basket strainers, duplex basket strainers, and Keckley's fabricated product line.

Benefits & Features

Keckley quick acting fabricated line blinds are designed for applications where positive, visual indications of line closure/opening are required.

Keckley quick acting line blinds are commonly found in oil and refinery, petrochemical, pulp and paper, and maritime industries. With the Keckley quick acting line blind, one operator can change a 6" line blind in five minutes without the need for special tools as compared to a typical 6" spectacle blind, which takes two maintenance men approximately 1-1/2 hours to change over.