Piping and Pipelines Assessment Guide

A comprehensive volume on piping and pipelines, never before published in the process industries in this format.

Keith Escoe (Author)

9780750678803, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 10 April 2006

560 pages, Approx. 200 illustrations
22.9 x 15.1 x 3.2 cm, 0.88 kg

Whether it’s called “fixed equipment? (at ExxonMobil), “stationary equipment? (at Shell), or “static equipment? (in Europe), this type of equipment is the bread and butter of any process plant. Used in the petrochemical industry, pharmaceutical industry, food processing industry, paper industry, and the manufacturing process industries, stationary equipment must be kept operational and reliable for companies to maintain production and for employees to be safe from accidents. This series, the most comprehensive of its kind, uses real-life examples and time-tested rules of thumb to guide the mechanical engineer through issues of reliability and fitness-for-service. This volume on piping and pipeline assessment is the only handbook that the mechanical or pipeline engineer needs to assess pipes and pipelines for reliability and fitness-for-service.

Chapter 1: An introduction to in-plant piping and pipeline fitness-for-serviceChapter 2: An introduction to engineering mechanics of pipingChapter 3: Fitness-for-service topics of local thin areas, plain dents, dents-gouges, and cracks for pipingChapter 4: Fitness-for-service for brittle fracture concerns Chapter 5: Piping support systems for process plantsChapter 6: Piping maintenance and repairsChapter 7: Hot tapping (pressure tapping) and freezingChapter 8: Pipeline fitness-for-service, repair and maintenance – selected topics

Subject Areas: Structural engineering [TNC]