The Engineer’s Guide to Plant Layout and Piping Design for the Oil and Gas Industries gives pipeline engineers and plant managers a critical real-world reference to design, manage, and implement safe and effective plants and piping systems for today’s operations. This book fills a training void with complete and practical understanding of the requirements and procedures for producing a safe, economical, operable and maintainable process facility. Easy to understand for the novice, this guide includes critical standards, newer designs, practical checklists and rules of thumb.
Due to a lack of structured training in academic and technical institutions, engineers and pipe designers today may understand various computer software programs but lack the fundamental understanding and implementation of how to lay out process plants and run piping correctly in the oil and gas industry. Starting with basic terms, codes and basis for selection, the book focuses on each piece of equipment, such as pumps, towers, underground piping, pipe sizes and supports, then goes on to cover piping stress analysis and the daily needed calculations to use on the job.
1. Introduction - p. xxi 2. Chapter 1: Engineers and designers—Career paths—Institutes - p. xxii 3. Chapter 2: Piping material, process terms, and piping codes - p. 7 4. Chapter 3: Fundamentals of plant layout design—Plot plans - p. 71 5. Chapter 4: Piping and equipment basis for selection - p. 103 6. Chapter 5: Vessels and drums - p. 141 7. Chapter 6: Exchangers - p. 167 8. Chapter 7: Pumps - p. 187 9. Chapter 8: Compressors - p. 210 10. Chapter 9: Furnaces - p. 241 11. Chapter 10: Reactors - p. 270 12. Chapter 11: Towers - p. 284 13. Chapter 12: Pipe racks/structures - p. 308 14. Chapter 13: Underground piping - p. 329 15. Chapter 14: Instrumentation - p. 346 16. Chapter 15: Storage tanks - p. 359 17. Chapter 16: Utility stations, steam and condensate piping - p. 380 18. Chapter 17: Pipe supports selection, anchors—guides - p. 395 19. Chapter 18: Pipe sizing and pressure drop calculations - p. 410 20. Chapter 19: Pipe stress analysis and layout of hot and cold piping - p. 470 21. Index - p. 501
The Engineer’s Guide to Plant Layout and Piping Design for the Oil and Gas Industries gives pipeline engineers and plant managers a critical real-world reference to design, manage, and implement safe and effective plants and piping systems for today’s operations. This book fills a training void with complete and practical understanding of the requirements and procedures for producing a safe, economical, operable and maintainable process facility. Easy to understand for the novice, this guide includes critical standards, newer designs, practical checklists and rules of thumb.
Due to a lack of structured training in academic and technical institutions, engineers and pipe designers today may understand various computer software programs but lack the fundamental understanding and implementation of how to lay out process plants and run piping correctly in the oil and gas industry. Starting with basic terms, codes and basis for selection, the book focuses on each piece of equipment, such as pumps, towers, underground piping, pipe sizes and supports, then goes on to cover piping stress analysis and the daily needed calculations to use on the job.
1. Introduction - p. xxi 2. Chapter 1: Engineers and designers—Career paths—Institutes - p. xxii 3. Chapter 2: Piping material, process terms, and piping codes - p. 7 4. Chapter 3: Fundamentals of plant layout design—Plot plans - p. 71 5. Chapter 4: Piping and equipment basis for selection - p. 103 6. Chapter 5: Vessels and drums - p. 141 7. Chapter 6: Exchangers - p. 167 8. Chapter 7: Pumps - p. 187 9. Chapter 8: Compressors - p. 210 10. Chapter 9: Furnaces - p. 241 11. Chapter 10: Reactors - p. 270 12. Chapter 11: Towers - p. 284 13. Chapter 12: Pipe racks/structures - p. 308 14. Chapter 13: Underground piping - p. 329 15. Chapter 14: Instrumentation - p. 346 16. Chapter 15: Storage tanks - p. 359 17. Chapter 16: Utility stations, steam and condensate piping - p. 380 18. Chapter 17: Pipe supports selection, anchors—guides - p. 395 19. Chapter 18: Pipe sizing and pressure drop calculations - p. 410 20. Chapter 19: Pipe stress analysis and layout of hot and cold piping - p. 470 21. Index - p. 501
