MIB Italiana S.p.a
MIB Italiana S.p.a
From its inception in Casalserugo, Padova, in 1969, MIB rapidly evolved as the leading supplier of customized connectors and safety solutions for the International Oil and Gas market.
This industry now extends to all regions of the World. Whether it is a small terminal handling fuel oils in an existing port complex, or the remote and harshest of offshore artic locations where transferring liquefied natural gas, MIB has solutions available to meet the application.
The Flip Flap Marine Breakaway Coupling is a safety device that protects a flexible hose string from an excessive axial load, a surge pressure, or a combination of the two.
The standard Flip Flap coupling configuration comprises two sets of disc valves positioned either side of a circumferential calibrated titanium alloy weak-bolt flange assembly.
The unit is passive, which meands it does not require any external energy source to operate.
Key Features:
- Control discs closure time upon project requirements
- Ease reassembly on-site
- Special titanium weak-bolt alloy
- Available both for onshore and offshore installation
- For offshore installation, suitable for both floating and submarine application
- Suitable for monodirectional or bidirectional flow
- 100% leak-tight after breakout
- Maintenance free for 5 years
- 25 years design life
| Design Pressure | : | Up to 10.000 psi |
| Design Temperature | : | -20/+80°C |
| Size Available | : | 4″, 6″, 8″, 10″ |
The MIBREAK, MIB petal type Marine Breakaway Coupling, is a passive safety device that protects a flexible hose string (floating or submerged) from an excessive axial load, a surge pressure, or a combination of the two.
The MIBREAK is designed for a 25 years life subject to periodic maintenance and is maintenance free for 5 years.
The key features of the “MIBreak” include:
- Full Bore, no interruptions in the flow path, with zero pressures loss.
- As upstream valve closure speed control is critical, the “MIBreak” solution includes a revolutionary damping arrangement which not only controls the closure rate but is specifically designed to combat problems of debris/solids ingress that could be experienced within the mechanism.
- It protects hose-strings against excessive axial tension or excessive internal fluid surge pressures.
- The breakout load/surge pressure protection can be adjusted to suit any specific installation.
- The “MIBreak” can be quickly and easily reassembled on site by local trained operators, then can be placed immediately back intoservice without the need to return the unit to MIB’s workshop. The operation can be carried out by following a detailed and simple to understand step-by-step procedure making use of a dedicated special Reassembly Frame supplied by MIB with the unit(s).
The capability of on-site reassembly by the client’s own personnel was a key consideration in the design phase of the MBC. The solution fully achieves this often crucial objective, ensuring a reduction for OPEX (reduction of logistics costs and lead time for refurbishment activities) and CAPEX (no need to keep spare units on stock).
The MIBreak with a specific design is suitable also for a Reeling operations.
| Pressure Rating | : | ASME B16.5 CLASS 150, 300 |
| Design Temperature | : | -20/+80°C |
| Size Available | : | 12”, 16”, 20” and with special different termination sizes |
The MIB ROTACAM is versatile manually operated quick connect & disconnect coupler to quickly and easy connect and disconnect a rigid marine arm or a flexible cargo hose to and from the manifold by on site personnel.
Thanks to the special wrench, locking cams will be turned to clamp and seal the coupler’s body against the ship’s manifold flange avoiding the need to fit all the studs and bolts of a standard flange, so speeding the whole connection and disconnection procedure.
| Design Pressure | : | ASME B16.5 CLASS 150, 300, DIN 2632 PN10, DIN 2633 PN16, DIN 2634 PN25, DIN 2635 PN40 |
| Design Temperature | : | -196/+85°C |
| Size Available | : | 3″ to 20″ |
| Handled Product | : | LNG Liquid and Vapour, LPG, Crude Oil, Refined Oils and Petrochemicals |
The hose protection system consists on a hydraulically operated Quick Connect Disconnect Coupler (QCDC), together with upper and lower isolation valves to fit at the interface between the hard deck piping and a floating export hose from an FPSO or FSO, ensuring minimal spillage of product after the emergency.
By utilising the MIB QCDC the system also enables a quick means of reconnecting the hose-string once the situation is rectified so as to keep downtime and demurage costs to a minimum. This is particularly relevant to the larger hose diameters where traditional handling and bolting practices can be extremely difficult and time consuming.
The system can be also supplied as a complete engineered package from MIB inclusive of hydraulic power and controls, links into the vessel hawser mooring system, remote activation and so on.
The system is suitable for ambient and low temperature fluid transfer. The system is designed accordingly to customer requirements making each project unique in its genre.
| Pressure Rating | : | ASME B16.5 CLASS 150, 300, 400 and Customized |
| Design Temperature | : | -20/+90°C |
| Size Available | : | 4″-24″ |
| Handled Product | : | Crude Oil, Condensate, Chemicals |
As the use of offloading hoses mounted on reels has become more commonplace, not only on FPSOs, but nowadays also on FLNG assets, MIB has developed a simple, but effective, solution for isolation and release of the hose-string in the event of an emergency situation arising.
The Emergency Release System is connected between the gooseneck, coming out from the drum of the Reel, and the hose end termination flange.
It is an active system, hydraulically actuated, that ensures the closure of both sides (reel and hose) and the separation in case of an emergency is quick, safe and reliable.
| Pressure Rating | : | ASME B16.5 CLASS 150, 300, 400 and Customized |
| Design Temperature | : | -20/+90°C |
| Size Available | : | 4″-24″ |
| Handled Product | : | Crude Oil, Condensate, Chemicals |
