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a
Certificate Course
on
PIPING ENGINEERING
June 12 - 25, 2006
Organized by
Piping Engineering Cell
Computer Aided Design Centre
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Powai, Mumbai - 400 07640"
Certificate Course on Piping Engineering
June 12-25, 2006
ig Engineering Cell, CAD Centre, IT Bombay
At
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University, Lonere
‘Monday, June 12, 2006
1030:1100 Inauguration
1100:1130 Tea
Introduction to Piping Engineering
1300:1400 Lunch
1400:1600 Introduction to Piping Engineering,
1600:1630 Tea
1630:1730 Introduction to Piping Engineering
Tuesday, June 13 to Saturday, June 24, 2006
There will be four sessions every day (except on June 21 which is a rest day in the
course).
0930:1100, 1130:1330, 1430:1600, 1630:1730
The tentative topics on these days are as follows.
Tuesday, June 13, 2006 Pipe Sizing
Wednesday, June 14, 2006 Mechanical Design Fundamentals —
Thursday, June 15, 2006 ‘Tutorials and Practical on Pipe Design
Friday, June 16, 2006 Codes & Standards, Piping Elements
Saturday, June 17, 2006 Valves, Basics of Drawing
Sunday, June 18, 2006 Plot Plan, Equipment & Piping Layout
Monday, June 19, 2006 Transient Flow, Pipe Under Stress, Tutorials
Tuesday, June 20, 2006 Nozzle Reinforcement, Cross-country Pipeline
Wednesday, June 21, 2006 Excursion/Rest Day
Thursday, June 22, 2006 Flexibility Analysis
Friday, June 23, 2006 Flexibility Analysis
Saturday, June 24, 2006 Support Selection & Design, Expansion Joints,
Jacketed Piping Design
Sunday, June 25, 2006
0930:1130 Quiz and Feedback
1200:1300 Closing Remarks
1300:1330 Certificate DistributionPIPING ENGINEERING CELL.
INTRODUCTION
About two decades ago, in India, the
design procedure for piping systems for
Refineries, Petrochemicals and Fertilizer
Plants, in magnitude, depth and
complexities were not fully evolved. Only
in the recent past, we were exposed in
detail to this field. Now we are self:
sufficient in the field of piping technology
and design.
Piping systems in a chemical plant are
comparable to the vanes and arteries
through which fluids, vapors, slurries,
solids, ete. flow under various conditions,
as imposed by the process design of the
plant. Piping network is subjected to
almost all the severest conditions of the
plant such as high temperature, pressure,
flow and combination of these. In
addition to the above, corrosion, erosion,
toxic conditions and radioactivity add to
more problems and difficulties in piping
design, With the process conditions
becoming more and more severe by the
advancement in process development, a
continuous effort is required to be carried
on simultaneously to cope up with the
demands of process. This makes the job of
a piping engineer more complex and
responsible.
Piping, because of its nature, requires a
number of day to day decisions on matters
of detail, which, in some ways are often
more difficult to solve than major issues
connected with the project. It is this same
detail which can cause expensive delays in
design and construction and consequently
in commissioning. All too often in the
past, piping has been regarded as an
unimportant job in the overall project
engineering instead of being treated as a
function requiring as wide a knowledge,
experience and variety skills as any other
branch of engineering.
In almost all chemical industries, the
installed capital cost of piping is a major
factor in plant investment. Figs. 1 and
2 show a chart based on oil refineries,
chemical and petrochemical complexes.
Fig. 1 shows that, excluding major
equipment costs, piping is the largest plant
cost component. It exceeds the next
largest component by a factor of two. It is
also observed from Fig. 3 that piping
exceeds all other field costs by a
substantial amount. Fig. 2 indicates that
design engineering utilizes approximately
45% of engineering man-hours and 50%
of these hours are used in piping design.
In addition to the above, the lost time in
piping has an effect, which goes well
beyond its direct cost, as it involves
financial loss in some proportion to the
total plant investment. The delay in and
during start up means idle capital and
losses in plant earning capacity.
In the recent years, the trend is to develop
better techniques so as to save time in
piping activities. Computer is being used
extensively to obtain rapid solutions to the
more complex problems of plant design
and, in so for as piping is concemed, to
the solving of problems of pipe stressing.
More recently, itis being employed for
production of piping detail drawings,
piping isometrics, bill of materials, cost
estimation and control. Piping engineer
has therefore a further responsibility in
understanding and application of
continually growing techniques of this
ature.