To save the piping from breaking during thermal expansion (day/night, summer/winter). They provide the needed space to expand withought breaking the system.
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Yes. The expansion loop is only there to take up the thermal expansion of the pipe run, installing a valve will not impede the action of the loop.
For thermal expansion of the pipe, avoiding damage/clash to adjoining pipes.
Loops are in some piping systems to allow for thermal expansion, to for greater volume and area to improve heat transfer, and in some cases to improve resistance of a system to mechanical shock.
In a pipeline system, expansion loops, which may actually be ahorseshoe or w-shape besides a loop, provide a tolerance for the pipe when it experiences a thermal expansion or contraction.
Eli Whitney after he developed the steam engine to allow for the coefficient of expansion per degree of temperature changes also called an expansion loop
Cold feed is cold water that supplies boiler water for heating system. Expansion tank relieves excess pressure buildup in heating system.The Cold feed should enter the supply line rather then the return as not to thermo shock a boiler and the expansion tank is to protect the system from excessive pressureAs water is heated it expands causing higher pressures the tank acts an asorber for this expansion
Pipe Expansion Joint
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Expansion joints are used on long runs (over 100 feet) of pipe or ducts where the expansion of steel will create stress on the pipe or its supports. for every 1 degree change in metal temperature the pipe will expand 6 millionths of a foot per foot of length. on a steam pipe 400 foot long carrying 750 degree steam this expansion would amount to a change in length of the pipe of 1.632 feet. this could tear down the supporting structure if this expansion weren't relieved by an expansion joint every 100 feet. expansion joints could be flexible corrugated pipe, reinforced rubber sheet, sliding pipe joints, or expansion loops, among other things.
My manual indicates you have an expansion tube and says to loosen the refrigerant line fitting at the condensor outlet pipe. Remove the expansion tube with needle-nose plyers.