piping tips

This is where we try to bring you tips and help for all piping designers and drafters.

Keep coming back to see more piping tips as they are added, or suggest a tip for particular area of piping expertise, be it pharmaceutical, chemical, oil & gas or biotech. If there is anything you would like to submit, send it in and we'll put it up.

Thoughts on Job Descriptions - Some thoughts Job descriptions within the piping profession, with kind thanks to James O. Pennock, Piper and regular contributer to pipingdesigners.com.

Puddle flanges - a brief guide to puddle flanges.

High purity Terms and definitions - ASME/BPE-1997, GR-10 TERMS AND DEFINITIONS

Thinking outside the box - By James O. Pennock, Piper, Consultant (Retired), Bayonet Point, Florida USA Courtesy of HYDROCARBON PROCESSING.

PFD's - A brief introduction to Process Flow Diagrams.

P&ID's - A Brief introduction to Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams.

Dead Legs - A Short paper on pharmaceutical pipe and dead legs.

Checking Drawings - Tips to reduce what a checker would find to almost nothing.

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