GERMAN STANDARD May 2005

DIN 7080
DIN
ICS 71.120.10 Replacement for
DIN 7080: 1999-05

Round sight glass plates made of borosilicate glass for pressure loads
without limitation in the low temperature range
Pressure resistant circular sight glasses of borosilicate glass without limitation in the range
of low temperature
Plaques de verres indicateur rondes en verre de borosilicate résistantes à la pression
sans limitation dans la gamme de température basse

14 pages in total

Chemical Apparatus Engineering Standards Committee

(FNCA) in DIN
DIN 7080: 2005-
05

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This standard was drawn up by the Working Committee FNCA AA 1 "Plant

Components". Annexes A and B are informative.

Changes

The following changes have been made with respect to DIN 7080: 1999-05:
a) Incorporation of correction DIN 7080: 1999-05 in section 4.5.2;
b) safety-related correction in 4.5.4.
c) permissible operating pressure changed to maximum permissible pressure;
d) editorially revised.

Previous issues

DIN 7080: 1943x-10, 1965-07, 1975-09, 1996-02, 1999-05

1 scope of application

This standard is to be used for thermally tempered round sight glass plates made of borosilicate glass, which
can be continuously stressed by one-sided liquid or gas pressure at temperatures up to 280 ° C. Use up to
300 ° C is possible under special conditions, see 4.3.2. For round sight glass plates according to this
standard, there is no temperature limit below the ambient temperature. Use up to the specified pressure and
temperature limits is only possible if Section 10 is observed.

2 Normative references
The following cited documents are required for your use of this document. For dated references, only the
edition referred to applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including
any changes) applies.

DIN 28120, round sight glasses with frame in the main connection
DIN 28121, round sight glasses with frame in the force shunt
DIN ISO 695, Glass - Resistance to a boiling aqueous mixed solution - Test method and classification;
Identical to ISO 695: 1991
DIN ISO 718, laboratory equipment made of glass - temperature shock and resistance to temperature
changes - test method, identical to / SO 718.1990
DIN ISO 719, glass - water resistance of semolina at 98 ° C - test method and classification; Identical to ISO
719: 1985
DIN ISO 1776, Glass - Resistance to hydrochloric acid at 100 ° C - Flame spectrometric method; Identical to /
SO 1776: 1985
DIN ISO 2859-1, Acceptance sample testing based on the number of defective units or errors (attribute test) -
Part 1: Sample plans according to the acceptable quality limit (AQL) for the testing of a series of lots (ISO
2859-1: 1999 including technical details Corrigendum 1: 2001)
DIN ISO 7991, Glass - Determination of the mean thermal coefficient of linear expansion

2
3 Dimensions, description

Dimensions in millimeters
1

Legend
1 seal
a Edge chamfered, see table
1
Image 1 - sight glass plate

Description of a round sight glass plate with diameter d1 = 100 mm and thickness s - 15 mm:

Sight glass DIN 7080 - 100 x 15

Table 1 - Dimensions

diameter diameter Maximum allowable pressure in bar

d1 d1 8 10 16 25 40 50
thickness S

45 32 - - - - 10 12
(50) 35 - - - 10 12
(60) 45 - - 10 12 15
63 48 - - 10 12 15
80 65 - - 12 15 20
100 80 - - 15 20 25
125 100 - 15 20 25
150 125 - 20 25 30
175 150 - 20 25 30 -
200 175 20 a
25 30
250 225 25a 30 -
only
for containers from steel,enamelled
135 110 - - - 25
265 240 30 - -
Parenthesized diameters are not for new construction
a The safety factor for this plate size is between 4.5 and 4.9
 4 material

General

Borosilicate glass, thermally toughened, with the requirements according to 4.2 to 4.5.

Mechanic solidity

With a (test) bending tensile strength of the non-toughened glass of about 40 N / mm2, the sight glass plates
must be thermally toughened so that they have a compressive strength of at least 100 N / mm * in the surface,
see A.1.

Thermal properties

Average coefficient of thermal expansion

Average coefficient of thermal expansion o according to DIN ISO 7991:

α(20 ° C, 300 ° C) ≤ 5,0 x 10 -6 K-1

Permissible application temperatures

The maximum application temperature of the sight glass plates is 280 ° C in continuous operation.

At an application temperature above 280 ° C, a permanent drop in the preload is to be expected (see
Appendix B, [1]). At an application temperature of 300 ° C and after an operating time of 300 h, a preload of
only 90% of the initial value can be expected. Use at temperatures between 280 ° C and 300 ° C is permitted
if suitable measures are taken, e.g. .:

- Protect sight glass plate with mica;

- Total operating times above 280 ° C ≤ 300 H.

Quench resistance

The quench resistance of the sight glass plates is 230 ° C, see DIN ISO 718 and 7.4.

Chemical resistance

— Water resistance according to DIN ISO 719: HBG 1;

- Acid resistance according to DIN ISO 1776:≤100 ug NA2O per 100
cm2;
— Alkali resistance according to DIN ISO 695: class A2. See also A.2.

Material defects

General

Bubbles, streaks, streak bands and knots as well as crystalline inclusions must not influence the mechanical
strength and not technically significant the view (see Appendix B, [2]).

The following limit values must not be exceeded.

 Blow

Round bubbles enclosed in the glass may have a maximum diameter of 2 mm. Oval bubbles must not exceed
the value (length + width) / 2 = 2 mm. Pointed bubbles are not permitted.

Bubbles may only appear according to Table 2.

Table 2 - Permissible bubble frequency

Bubble diameter
Permissible number of bubbles
d3

d3 <0.3 3 pieces per cm2 visible area

0.3 ≤ d3 ≤ 0.5 10 pieces per sight glass plate
0.5 <d3 ≤ 1 4 pieces per sight glass plate
1 <d3 ≤2 2 pieces per sight glass plate

Knots, streaks and streaks

Knots, sharp streaks and streak bands visible to the naked eye are not permitted.

Crystalline inclusions

Inclusions in the glass must not have a diameter greater than 0.2 mm. Their number must not be more than
three pieces per sight glass plate, and their minimum distance must not be less than 10 mm.

5 execution

- Thermally tempered (see 4.2 and Appendix A.1);

— Surfaces ground and polished, edge bright pressed and / or ground at the manufacturer's choice;

— Chamfered edges, chamfers pressed or ground according to the manufacturer's choice.

For technical reasons, the plate edge may be beveled by 1.5 °; d1 must be measured at the largest outside
diameter.
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6 Limit dimensions, shape and position tolerances, edge conditions

Marginal dimensions

0e
- A

Legend
a Edge dimension see table
5 b Printed page

Figure 2 - Shape and position tolerances, edge conditions

Table 3 - Limit dimensions

Dimensions in
millimeters
Diameter d1 thickness s
d1≤135 150≤d1≤200 d1 > 200 10≤ s ≤ 20 s s> 20
+ 0.5 + 0.8
± 0.5 ± 0.8 ±1 - 0.25 - 0.4

Tolerances of shape and position

Table 4 - Flatness, parallelism

Dimensions in millimeters
Diameter d1 d1≤ 100 100 <d1≤150 150 <d1≤ 200 d1> 200
Evenness c 0.05 0.08 0.12 0.15
Parallelism p 0.2 0.25 0.3

Edge states

table 5 - edge states

Dimensions in millimeters
Diameter d, Edge
dimension
- 1.0
≤100 - 0.3

- 1.5
> 100 - 0.3

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 7 exam

General

The manufacturer checks the properties according to sections 3, 4, 5 and 6 and confirms compliance with the
relevant conditions by means of the labeling according to section 8.

Preload qualitative: stress-optical

Every single piece is checked. When looking perpendicular to the flat glass surface at the edge of the glass,
several clearly distinguishable and self-contained circular lines (isochromats) must be recognizable (see
Figure 3).

The presence of a compressive pretension can be concluded from the line image described.

Preload quantitative: randomly, by burst pressure test

Depending on the lot size, each production lot (leader lot) is checked according to the following sample size:

Sample size:

Lot sizes with less than 20 pieces: 1 piece; Lot

sizes from 20 pieces to 50 pieces: 2 pieces; Lot

sizes with more than 50 pieces: 3rd

Piece. Execution:

After completion of the sight glasses, a number of samples corresponding to the sample size are taken from
each batch.

Image 3 - Sight glass plate in polarized light

 Legend
1 Plastic ring
a ground
b Printed page
Figure 4 - Test device

Each sight glass plate removed is damaged on one of the two flat surfaces by grinding, in such a way that

- in a central circular area of about 0.5 d1,

— with a wet sandpaper, grain 220,

— with circular motion, grinding in all directions.

It is essential that the wet sandpaper is removed beforehand to avoid individual scratches over a metal edge.
To avoid a large spread of the measured values during the burst test, it is recommended to work with
sandpaper from one batch.

The previously damaged sight glass plates are subjected to a burst test with cold water in a device according
to Figure 4, the surface previously damaged by grinding being on the side facing away from the water.

To protect against splintering, the glass surface facing away from the water must be covered with foil before
the burst test.

The burst pressure Fogg (the pressure at which the sight glass plate breaks) is measured and determined
from it for each sight glass plate according to equation (1).
2nd
fp C. d, z
B B (1)
" 10 s

Equation (2) must be fulfilled for each sample:

2nd
BG " BU' B \ ' 100 N / mm (2)
 In equation (1) and equation (2) is:

σBG the bursting tension of thermally tempered sight glass plates, in N / mm2;

σBU the bursting tension of not thermally tempered (relaxed) sight glass plates, in N / mm *;

σDV the compressive stress, determined by bursting test, in N / mm *;

pBG the burst pressure of thermally tempered sight glass plates, in bar;

pBU of the Burst pressure of non-thermally tempered (relaxed) sight glass plates, in bar;

C. Calculation coefficient, 0.55;

dm the average seal diameter, calculated according to equation (3):

+ d2
(3)
2

s the thickness according to the table 1;

dm and s should be entered in millimeters in equation (1).

The value σBU in equation (2) is determined in the same way by a burst test on sight glass plates that have
slowly cooled after heating and are thus relaxed. σBU, can be taken as the mean value of ongoing company
audits, whereby the last considered test values may not be older than six months.

Values of σBU to be used in equation (2) must not be less than 35 N / mm2.

Quench resistance

Randomly by sample according to the sample size according to 7.3. The glasses at 250 ° C must be
completely flushed with water at a temperature of 20 ° C for at least 1 min; Failure criterion: total break.

Dimensional deviation

Dimensional deviations are randomly checked for each leader. For each deviation to be tested = attribute
(diameter, thickness, flatness, parallelism, edge conditions), the stipulations apply in accordance with simple
sample instructions for normal testing according to test level I according to DIN ISO 2859-1, acceptable quality
limit (AQL) = 10. The testing of all attributes can be carried out on the same test piece.

report

The manufacturer must document the tests carried out on each preload lot according to 7.2 to 7.5. At the
request of the customer, he must allow inspection of the test report. The test report must contain in particular:

- Identification of the leader lot;

- Values for σBU, σBG, σBG - σBU:

- Confirmation of the voltage-optical examination carried out on each sight glass plate of a lot;
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— Result of the quench strength test;

— Confirmation of the visual inspection carried out successfully on each sight glass plate for material defects;

— Results of the dimensional tests.

8 Labelling
Within the field provided for this in Figure 5 and Table 6 on the smaller, ie on the surface facing away from the
print, each sight glass plate is given the following permanent identification:

- DIN 7080;

— Number of the permissible operating pressure indicated in bar according to

table 1. On the cylindrical glass rim:

- Manufacturer or trademark (e.g. XYZ);

- Characteristics of the leaderless.

The indicator of the leader lot must allow clear conclusions to be drawn about the documentation of the
respective test. The manufacturer or trademark (e.g. XYZ) can be repeated within the field provided in Figure
5 with the dimensions of Table 6.

80 -10

Φd1

Figure 5 - Fields for labeling

9 packaging
In the packaging, each individual glass must also be able to be transported and stored in a shock-proof and
scratch-resistant manner within the company. In addition, the manufacturer may choose to carry out the
packaging.

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 10 Installation, safety requirements
The permissible operating pressures specified in Table 1 are only achieved if the sight glass plates are
clamped evenly and installed in such a way that the larger area is acted upon by the internal pressure of the
device. The prerequisite for this is that, when sealing on the flat glass surfaces, sight glass frames with the
dimensions, seals, screw numbers and sizes according to DIN 28120 or DIN 28121 are used. When installed
in other versions, their suitability must be demonstrated.

Sight glass panels may only be installed by persons who have been informed in detail about the following
requirements:

- careful treatment of the sight glass plates;

- Cleaning of the frames, sight glass plates, seals and inserts before installation, ie removal of foreign
bodies (e.g. chips);

- Tighten the fastening screws evenly.

Sight glass plates that have been removed after operational use must not be reused.

Table 6 - Dimensions for labeling

Dimensions in
millimeters
diameter
b
d1
45 9
(50) 10
(60) 10 6.5 2.5
63 10
80 10
100 12
125 15
135 15
150 15
175 15 12 5
200 15
250 15
265 15
 Appendix
A (informative)

Explanations

Mechanic solidity
The simultaneous thermal, mechanical and chemical stress on round sight glass plates requires the use of
heat-resistant and mechanically high-strength borosilicate glasses, which also have the highest possible
resistance to additional chemical stress. These glasses can only withstand the unilaterally acting liquid or gas
pressure, the clamping forces and the thermal stresses that occur when there are temperature differences if
their normal tensile strength is increased by thermal prestressing. Accordingly, a minimum dimension of this
prestress of 100 N / mm * surface compressive stress is the decisive quality criterion. This increases the
normal bending tensile strength of glass by approximately 40 N / mm * to at least 2.5 times. It is essential that
there are no tensile loads when installed. The level of the stress in the surface of the sight glass plates
resulting from a unilaterally acting liquid or gas pressure stress must therefore remain below the value of the
pressure preloads.

The thicknesses were calculated with the minimum value of the prestress oov, = 100 N / mm2 and a safety
factor (S = 5) so that they satisfy the inequality [(equation (A.1)]

(A.1)

In addition to the formula symbols according to 7.3, the

permissible operating pressure is in bar;

σDV zul allowable minimum bending tensile strength, in N /

mm2;

S the safety factor = 5.

With the increase in the bending tensile strength, the pretension also contributes to the increase in the
quenching strength, the size (at given temperature gradients) of which is primarily due to the elastic properties
as well as heat conduction and expansion coefficient.

When using pressure-loaded sight glasses, operational safety depends crucially on the design of the
mounting parts and the installation conditions.

The considered safety factor (S = 5) is only available if the guidelines given by the sight glass manufacturers
for the assembly and operation of the glasses are observed and followed.
 Chemical resistance

If sight glasses are used for boiler systems with aqueous media, a glass attack is to be expected, which
increases exponentially with increasing temperature and increasing pH value of the medium, that is, with a
sharp increase. It can also be significantly promoted by chemical additives, some of which are added for water
treatment in various types and amounts. This can lead to such a high removal rate that due to the geometrical
change in the glass there is a risk to operational safety (risk of breakage). However, the most important
influencing factors are the pH value and temperature; at temperatures well above 200 ° C, temperature plays
the main role for complex other reasons. As an illustration, the removal of a glass surface at 170 ° C after
application at two different pH values is applied (Figure A.1). The dashed line represents the attack of a
solution of pH = 10 after an increase in temperature to 220 ° C (laboratory conditions).
Removal in mm

pH = 10 l17 0 ”C)

Time in months

Figure A.1 - Removal from sight glasses

 Appendix
B
(informative)

References
[1] DIN ISO 13715, workpiece edges - Terms - Drawing information

[2] DIN ISO 1101, technical drawings - shape and position tolerance - shape, direction, location and
Running tolerances - general, definitions, symbols, drawing entries

[3] DIN EN ISO 1302, technical drawings - specification of the surface condition; Identical with
/ SO 1302. 1992

[4] V. Novotny, 1. Kavka: Stress relaxation in thoughened gass, Glass Technology Vol. 18 No 5,
Oct. 1977

[5] H. Jebsen-Marwedel, R. Brückner: Glass engineering Manufacturing defects,

Springer publishing company Berlin, Heidelberg, New York