PIPING GROUP Piping Material Engineer Piping Design Engineer Piping Stress Engineer

Piping Engineer, the individual responsible for creating the project piping classes and the numerous piping specifications necessary to fabricate, test, insulate, and paint the piping systems. PIPING MATERIAL ENGINEERS ACTIVITIES Outlined here are the principal activities of a piping material engineer. These are listed in chronological order as they would arise as a project develops from preliminary to detailed design. 1. Development of the Project Piping Classes 2. Writing Specifications for Fabrication, Shop and Field Testing, Insulation, and Painting. 3. Creating All Data Sheets for Process and Utility Valves. 4. Creating a List of Piping Specials and Data Sheets. 5. Assembling Piping Material Requisition with All Additional Documents. 6. Reviewing Offers from Vendors and Create a Technical Bid Evaluation. 7. After Placement of a Purchase Order, Reviewing and Approving Documentation Related to All Piping Components. 8. Vendor Visits. 9. Bids for New Projects. Development of the Project Piping Classes All process plants have of two types of principal piping systems: Process (primary and secondary) piping systems Process piping systems can be further divided into primary process, which is the main process flow, and secondary process, which applies to the various recycling systems. Utility piping systems Utility piping systems are no less important. They are there to support the primary process, falling into three groups: Supportinstrument air, cooling water, steam. Maintenanceplant air, nitrogen. Protectionfoam and firewater. There are other utility services such as drinking water.

Piping Classes
Each piping system is allocated a piping class, which lists all the components required to construct the piping. A piping class includes the following:
Process design conditions. Corrosion allowance. List of piping components. Branch table. Special assemblies. Support notes.

Both process and utility piping systems operate at various temperatures and pressures, and the following must be analyzed:
Fluid typecorrosivity, toxicity, viscosity. Temperature range. Pressure range. Size range. Method of joining. Corrosion allowance.