COURSE SYLLABUS

N630 - Advanced ASME B31.3 Process Piping Code

Duration

Two classroom days providing 1.6 CEU (Continuing Education Credits) or 16 PDH (Professional
Development Hours)

Summary

This two-day course will cover advanced topics related to the ASME B31.3 Process Piping Code. This
course emphasizes the piping flexibility analysis process, including practice application of simplified
methods and illustration of computer analysis methods. This course also covers requirements for non-
metallic, Category M fluid service, high pressure and high purity piping, as well as in-service inspection
to API 570 and a comparison to ASME B31.1 Power Piping requirements. Participants are encouraged to
bring a copy of the code (not included in course fees) to the session.

Each session is conducted in a lecture/discussion/problem solving format designed to provide intensive

instruction and guidance on understanding Code requirements. The instructor will be available following
each day’s session to provide participants with further opportunity for discussion and consideration of
specific problems.

Who Should Attend

Engineers, senior designers, maintenance and manufacturing personnel who work in depth with process
piping (e.g., in the chemical, petroleum, plastic processing, pulp and paper, and bioprocessing fields) will
find it a time-saving means to broaden and update their knowledge of piping.

Participants will learn to

1. Develop and understanding of how to perform a piping flexibility analysis.

2. Create acceptable arrangements for piping systems with expansion joints.
3. Develop an understanding of special considerations for nonmetallic, lethal service, high
pressure, high purity and underground piping.
4. Formulate inspection plans for piping that has been placed in service.

Course Agenda

Day One
1. Materials
a. Strength of Materials
b. Bases for Design Stresses
2. Introduction to Flexibility Analysis
a. What are we trying to achieve?
b. Sustained loads, Displacement Loads
c. Reaction Design Criteria

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d. Flexibility Analysis Example
e. Stress Intensification
3. Layout and Support
a. Support Spacing, Support Locations
b. Support Elements
c. The Sustained Load Analysis
d. Fixing Problems

4. Flexibility
a. Friction
b. Elbow Flexibility
c. Thermal Expansion
d. Spring Hangers
e. The Displacement Load Analysis
f. Elastic follow-up
g. Fixing Problems
5. Reactions
a. Fabricated Equipment
b. Rotating Equipment
c. Supports
d. Flanged Joints
e. Cold Spring
6. Flexibility Analysis
a. When to Perform a Detailed Analysis
b. Computer Program Attributes
c. Considerations

Day Two
1. Designing with Expansion Joints
a. Types of Expansion Joints
b. Pressure Thrust
c. Installation of Expansion Joints, Metal Bellows Expansion Joints
d. Other considerations
2. Non-metallic Piping Systems
a. Thermoplastics
b. Reinforced thermosetting resins
c. Concrete and glass
d. Piping lined with non-metals
e. Limitations
3. Category M Fluid Service
a. Design, Fabrication
b. Examination and Testing
c. Typical Owner Added Requirements
4. High Pressure Piping

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a. Materials, Pressure Design
b. Limitations, Flexibility Analysis
c. Fabrication
d. Examination and Testing
e. Overpressure Protection
5. High Purity Piping
f. Fabrication and Installation
g. Examination and Testing
h. Category M Fluid Service
6. In-service Piping - Inspection, Repair, Alteration and Rerating
i. API 570 Piping Inspection Code
j. What to Inspect
k. Types of Inspection, Inspection Practices
l. Frequency and Extent of Inspection
m. Remaining Life Calculation
n. Repairs and Alterations
o. Rerating
7. What’s Different in B31.1
a. Scopes
b. Organization of the Codes
c. Bases for Allowable Stresses
d. Piping Component Standards
e. Fluid Service Requirements, Material Requirements
f. Pressure Design and Flexibility Analysis
g. Fabrication and Installation
8. Underground Piping
h. Steel Piping
i. Ductile Iron Piping
j. Non-metallic Piping

Instructor
Don Frikken is an internationally recognized authority in piping design. Now employed by Becht
Engineering, Don had been with Solutia, Inc. and Monsanto Company for 34 years; working on a wide
range of activities including piping and mechanical design, project engineering, and engineering
standards. Don’s principal specialty is piping design, including design of complex piping systems, piping
flexibility analysis, selection of piping components including valves, development of piping standards
and specifications, and developing and teaching numerous piping seminars and workshops.

He is an ASME Fellow and is active on various ASME standards committees. He is a member and past
Chair of the ASME B31.3 Process Piping Code committee, a member and past Chair of the B31 Standards
Committee, which oversees all B31 Piping Code committees, member of the B16 Standards Committee,
past member of the Council on Standards and Certification, which oversees ASME’s codes and standards
development, and a past member of the ASME Board of Governors,.

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Don has received a number of awards, including the ASME Melvin R. Green Codes and Standards Medal,
which recognizes outstanding contributions to the development of documents used in ASME programs
of technical codification, standardization and certification, as well as the ASME B31 Forever Medal for
Excellence in Piping. Don graduated with a B.S.M.E. from Kansas State University and has a master’s
degree in civil engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla.

Course Dates
Please visit the course details webpage for currently scheduled course dates.

Available for In-House Group Delivery

This course is available for In-House Training and the content can be customized to suit the needs of
your organization. For more information or to request a proposal, please email
inhouserequests@peice.com or call 713-482-3858 (USA), 403-284-1250 (Canada).

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