Repetitive piping blockage - Line size increase

[tuan]

In one of our material handling unit, we have been facing issues of repetitive piping blockage. We believe that other than the heat tracing (installed to keep the material in melted form) effectiveness, smaller line size is also playing a role. However, would this be possible to just change the line size to a size bigger without considering other factors like hydraulic balance of the system itself. What are the other considerations?

[arcpro]

Which service are we talking here, getting blocked?

[ivani1]

Just a perspective here, you increase the piping diameter to kill plugging and then you kill velocity, the flow and let another reason of plugging get into the piping...

In one of our material handling unit, we have been facing issues of repetitive piping blockage. We believe that other than the heat tracing (installed to keep the material in melted form) effectiveness, smaller line size is also playing a role. However, would this be possible to just change the line size to a size bigger without considering other factors like hydraulic balance of the system itself. What are the other considerations?