Why do pipelines have U shaped bends every now and then?

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Wouldn’t that make impossible for “pigs” to go trough resist flow, make cavitation acumulate grime and other piping problems?

Surely they have a reason to be but I have no idea what it is

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As the horizontal pipes expand and contract with temperature changes the U sections can flex to absorb the length changes.

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