pipingdesigners.com Training Seminar

Subject Index

Section I - Piping Components

A. Valves - By Anton Dooley
This is a brief overview of different valves and their uses.

B. Pipe - By: James O. Pennock
This is a discussion about pipes, from their history and their uses to weights and grades.

C. Fittings - By: James O. Pennock
This is a discussion about fittings, the different types of fittings and their uses.

D: Flanges - By: James O. Pennock
This article covers ASME B 16.5 Standard Piping Flanges up to 24" NPS

Section II - Equipment Piping and Assembly Applications

A: General Guidelines for Equipment and Piping Location, Spacing, Distances and Clearances - By: James O. Pennock

This article is intended to aid both the novice and experienced piping designer with guidance for plot plan development.

C1: Introduction to Vessels and Vessel Orientation - By: James O. Pennock

C2: Vertical Vessel Orientation - By: James O. Pennock

Section III - Pipe Supports

A. Pipe Supports - Part 1, By: James O. Pennock
This is a discussion about the two basic categories of pipe supports (the primary pipe support systems, and the secondary pipe support systems).

B. Pipe Supports - Part 2, By: James O. Pennock
This is a discussion about the data requirements and the process of selection and qualification for the typical secondary pipe supports.

Section IV - Piping Stress for the Piping Designer

A. Stress Problems and Designer Stress Training - By: James O. Pennock
This discussion is an introduction to the problems found in piping caused by thermal expansion and dead weight, their relationship to the overall piping arrangement and the type of stress related training required for the piping designer.

B: The Problem with Piping "Lift-off" - By CAEPIPE
Contemporary commercial piping analysis programs deal differently with the problem of apparent lift-off of an operating pipe at a rod hanger or a one-way vertical support, such as a pipe on a support rack (... more)

Section V - Field Issues

A. Field trip guidelines - By: James O. Pennock
This discussion is about what to expect when you are asked to go to the field?

B. Defining Offsite Facilities for Process Plants - Contributed by Jadeep Choudary, Anita R. Legvold and James O. Pennock.

Some have asked questions such as: “What is Balance of Plant?”; “What is Offsites?” What is OSBL?” and “What needs to be considered when a project includes Offsites.” The purpose of this document is to aid in answering this type of question.

Section VI - Pipe Fabrication Shop Issues

A: Checking of Pipe Fabrication Shop Drawings - By: James O. Pennock

B: Pipe Fabrication Shop Assignment Questions and Problems - By: James O. Pennock

Section VII - Management and Supervision

A: Introduction To Line Numbering - By: James O. Pennock

B: Checking, Quality Assurance and Quality Control of Piping Drawings - By: James O. Pennock

"Checking or the Quality Assurance & Quality Control (QA/QC) in process plant piping engineering and design is a grossly misunderstood activity that is performed (or should be performed) by every piping group on every process plant project deliverable."