Piping
Piping
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Piping
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Within industry, piping is a system of pipes used to convey fluids (liquids and gases)
from one location to another. The engineering discipline of piping design studies the
efficient transport of fluid.[1][2]
Industrial process piping (and accompanying in-line components) can be manufactured
from wood, fiberglass, glass, steel, aluminum, plastic, copper, and concrete. The in-line
components, known as fittings, valves, and other devices, typically sense and control the
pressure, flow rate and temperature of the transmitted fluid, and usually are included in
the field of Piping Design (or Piping Engineering). Piping systems are documented in
piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs). If necessary, pipes can be cleaned by the
tube cleaning process.
"Piping" sometimes refers to Piping Design, the detailed specification of the physical
piping layout within a process plant or commercial building. In earlier days, this was
sometimes called Drafting, Technical drawing, Engineering Drawing, and Design but is
today commonly performed by Designers who have learned to use automated Computer
Aided Drawing / Computer Aided Design (CAD) software.,l
Plumbing is a piping system with which most people are familiar, as it constitutes the
form of fluid transportation that is used to provide potable water and fuels to their homes
and businesses. Plumbing pipes also remove waste in the form of sewage, and allow venting of sewage gases to the outdoors.
Fire sprinkler systems also use piping, and may transport nonpotable or potable water, or other fire-suppression fluids.
Piping also has many other industrial applications, which are crucial for moving raw and semi-processed fluids for refining into
more useful products. Some of the more exotic materials of construction are Inconel, titanium, chrome-moly and various other
steel alloys.
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Engineering subfields
Stress analysis
Materials
Wooden piping history
Standards
See also
References
Further reading
External links
Engineering subfields
Generally, industrial piping engineering has three major subfields:
Piping material
Piping design
Stress analysis
Stress analysis
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Process piping and power piping are typically checked by pipe stress engineers to verify that the routing, nozzle loads, hangers,
and supports are properly placed and selected such that allowable pipe stress is not exceeded under different loads such as
sustained loads, operating loads, pressure testing loads, etc., as stipulated by the ASME B31, EN 13480 or any other applicable
codes and standards. It is necessary to evaluate the mechanical behavior of the piping under regular loads (internal pressure and
thermal stresses) as well under occasional and intermittent loading cases such as earthquake, high wind or special vibration, and
water hammer.[3][4] This evaluation is usually performed with the assistance of a specialized (finite element) pipe stress analysis
computer programs such as CAEPIPE[5] and CAESAR.[6]
In cryogenic pipe supports, most steel become more brittle as the temperature decreases from normal operating conditions, so it
is necessary to know the temperature distribution for cryogenic conditions. Steel structures will have areas of high stress that
may be caused by sharp corners in the design, or inclusions in the material.[7]
Materials
The material with which a pipe is manufactured often forms as the basis for choosing any pipe. Materials that are used for
manufacturing pipes include:
Carbon steel
ASTM A252 Spec Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3 Steel Pile Pipe
Low temperature service carbon steel
Stainless steel
Nonferrous metals, e.g. cupro-nickel
Nonmetallic, e.g. tempered glass
Standards
There are certain standard codes that need to be followed while designing or manufacturing any piping system. Organizations
that promulgate piping standards include:
ASME - The American Society of Mechanical Engineers - B31 series
ASME B31.1 Power piping (steam piping etc.)
ASME B31.3 Process piping
ASME B31.4 Pipeline Transportation Systems for Liquid Hydrocarbons and Other Liquids
ASME B31.5 Refrigeration piping and heat transfer components
ASME B31.8 Gas transmission and distribution piping systems
ASME B31.9 Building services piping
ASME B31.11 Slurry Transportation Piping Systems (Withdrawn, Superseded by B31.4)
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See also
Firestop
Gasket
Hydraulic machinery
Hydrogen piping
Hydrostatic test
MS Pipe, MS Tube
Pipe network analysis
References
1. Editors: Perry, R.H. and Green, D.W. (1984). Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook (6th ed.). McGraw-Hill Book Company.
ISBN 0-07-049479-7.
2. Editor: McKetta, John J. (1992). Piping Design Handbook. Marcel Dekker, Inc. ISBN 0-8247-8570-3.
3. [1] (http://catalog.asme.org/books/PrintBook/Process_Piping_Complete_Guide.cfm) Archived
(https://web.archive.org/web/20060529120337/http://catalog.asme.org/books/PrintBook/Process_Piping_Complete_Guide.cfm) 29 May
2006 at the Wayback Machine.
4. Power Piping: ASME B31.1 (http://catalog.asme.org/Codes/PrintBook/B311_2004_Power_Piping.cfm)
5. http://www.sstusa.com/caepipe.php
6. "Intergraph CAESAR II - Pipe Stress Analysis". coade.com.
7. Temperature & Stress Analysis (http://www.pipingtech.com/technical/pdf/tempstress-cryoshoes.pdf) Piping Technology and Products,
(retrieved February 2012)
8. "BBC - A History of the World - Object : wooden water pipe". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
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9. "Piping water through miles of Redwood". Popular Science: 74. December 1918.
10. H. "ASTM A252 Pipe Pile". China Huayang Steel Pipe.
11. "API 5L Specification Line Pipe (1) API Terms and Definitions". China Huayang Steel Pipe.
Further reading
ASME B31.3 Process Piping Guide, Revision 2
(http://engstandards.lanl.gov/esm/pressure_safety/process_piping_guide_R2.pdf) from Los Alamos National Laboratory
Engineering Standards Manual OST220-03-01-ESM
Seismic Design and Retrofit of Piping Systems, July 2002
(http://www.americanlifelinesalliance.org/pdf/Seismic_Design_and_Retrofit_of_Piping_Systems.pdf) from American
Lifelines Alliance website
Engineering and Design, Liquid Process Piping. Engineer manual, entire document
(http://publications.usace.army.mil/publications/eng-manuals/EM_1110-1-4008_sec/EM_1110-1-4008.pdf) (index page)
(http://publications.usace.army.mil/publications/eng-manuals/EM_1110-1-4008_sec/toc.htm) U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, EM 1110-l-4008, May 1999
External links
Building services piping links
(https://www.dmoz.org//Construction_and_Maintenance/Materials_and_Supplies/Mechanical/Building_Services_Piping/)
at DMOZ
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