Piping Fundamentals: Piping System - What Is That?
Piping Fundamentals: Piping System - What Is That?
Piping Fundamentals: Piping System - What Is That?
Piping Fundamentals
It is a Tubular item made of metal, plastic, glass etc.
meant for conveying Liquid, Gas or any thing that
flows.
It is a very important component for any industrial
plant. And its engineering plays a major part in overall
engineering of a Plant.
To solve these
problems we need the
pipe components,
which are called
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PIPE FITTINGS
We need some
branch
connections
re
TERMINAL CONNECTIONS.
STRAINER
JOINT
While carrying out pipe routing we also need to consider the following
Valves, strainers, instruments on the pipe should be easily accessible.
If needed separate ACCESS PLATFORMS to be provided to facilitate these.
Desired location and orientation of valves / instruments and other pipe
components are to be checked and maintained, like some valves or strainers
can only be installed in horizontal position.
Specific requirements for instrument installation to be checked, like
temperature gauge can not be installed in pipe which is less than 4 inch in size.
Specific requirements of STRAIGHT LENGTH of pipe for some components to
be maintained, like for flow orifice we need to provide 15 times diameter
straight pipe length at upstream of orifice and 5 times diameter straight at down
stream of orifice.
For Pipeline which shall carry liquid, we have to make sure that all air is
allowed to vent out of the line when the line is filled with liquid.
To achieve this a VENT connection with Valve is provided at the top most point
of the pipeline.
Also arrangement is kept in the
pipeline so that liquid can be
drained out if required.
To achieve this a DRAIN connection
with Valve is provided at the lowest
point of the pipeline
Pipes are also slopped towards low
points.
Let us look
into typical
Vent and
Drain
arrangement
in a pipeline
INSULATION - When hot fluid flows through pipe then generally pipe is
insulated.
There are two primary reasons for insulating the pipe carrying hot fluid.
Containing the heat inside the pipe. Insulation preserves the heat of the fluid. It
is called Hot Insulation
Personnel safety, so that people do not get burn injury by touching hot surface
ofpipes
pipe. are
It isalso
called
Personnel Protection Insulation
Cold
insulated
Cold or chilled fluid carrying pipes are insulated to prevent heating of cold fluid
from outside. It is called Cold Insulation.
Some times cold pipes are insulated to prevent condensation of atmospheric
water vapor on pipe surface. It is called Anti-Sweat Insulation.
Other types of Insulation
When gas flows through pipes at high velocity, it creates noise. In such cases
pipes are insulated to reduce noise. It is called Acoustic Insulation.
Some times pipe and its content are heated from outside, by heat tracing
element. In that case pipe along with heat tracing element are insulated to
conserve the heat of the tracer. It is called Heat Tracing Insulation.
Pipe Material Selection - to select appropriate pipe material based on flowing fluid property.
Find out type
of Fluid
flowing
Find out
Fluid Temp.
& Pressure
Check Pipe
life
Expectancy
Select suitable
Material per
practice (Note-1)
Check Mat.
Listed in
Design Code
YES
Pipe
Material
OK
NO
See Note1
Pipe Sizing Calculation - to select required pipe diameter based on velocity and pressure drop.
Find out
Flow volume
per second
Check Velocity
Allowable per
second
Calc. Press.
Drop for that
Pipe size
Check Press.
Drop meets
Press. Budget
NO
Increase
Pipe Size
YES
Pipe
Size
OK
Tools we use
Outputs
Variable Spring
Rigid Support
Rigid Hanger
Dynamic Support,
Snubber
Rigid Support