Re: Shoes for Plastic Pipe

Paul:

No concerns over abrasion, just an oversite.

At 09:23 AM 6/18/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Why are you concerned about the two PVC lines being at a different B.O.P.
>(Bottom of Pipe - invert elevation is generally used for buried lines and
>refer to sloped piping) elevation? Abrasion?
>
>Paul
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Thomas Laupa" <tlaupa@frii.com>
>To: <PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 8:49 AM
>Subject: [PipingDesign] Shoes for Plastic Pipe
>
>
> >
> > >Gents:
> >
> > Can anyone suggest a method of supporting PVC pipe in a rack designed for
> > steel pipe?
> >
> > We are installing a pipe rack to support several 4" and 6" steel lines,
> > uninsulated. One end of the rack will support two 4" PVC pipes. We
> > originally designed the pipe so that all invert elevations were the same,
> > but we forgot that we would have 3-1/2" shoes on the steel pipe.
> >
> > Would you suggest: 1) lowering the invert elevation of the PVC pipe to
> > rest directly on the pipe rack? or 2) fabricate some sort of shoe for the
> > PVC pipe?
>
>
>
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Thomas G Laupa PE
Senior Engineer - Ondeo Nalco Applied Services Office Address: One Ondeo Nalco Center, Naperville, IL, 60563 Courier Address: 1003 Remington, Fort Collins, CO, 80524 970-227-5127
800-493-5009 fax Received on Wed Jun 18 09:22:00 2003