Introduction to Piping Design

What is the pipe

• As per Merriam Webster dictionary , the pipe is a long tube or hollow body for conducting a liquid, gas, or finely divided solid.

• Technically : The pipe Is a beam , which acts as pressure vessel and transfer fluids.

Piping System

• The piping system is group of pipes , fittings and flanges which connects equipment and pipelines inside stations

Piping systems includes :

1. The pipes , fittings and flanges .

2. Valves.

3. Gaskets and bolts

4. Special Piping Components ( Insulation Gaskets,

Special Valves, Filters and strainers, Corrosion

Protection Fittings, etc).

5. Pipe Supports

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