Re: Amount of piping

Bruce,
line means.
line which appears in p&id once.
means 12"-p-1001 in p&id is one line.
it might be going from pump nozzel to any tank. but has tag no. 1001. so 12"-p-1001 is one line. so one p&id might be having 20 to 40 lines.

Regards,
Manoj

bbullough@foth.com wrote:
>
> Manoj:
>
> Please define "line". I may be missing something, but I can imagine
> multiple definitions. A line could be the route between a tank and a
> reactor, including pump and installed backup pump, flowmeters, control
> valves, manual bypasses around the control valves, etc. Or it could be
> the pipes between each of the above. If the latter is used as the
> definition, 2500 is rather easy to have. If the former, it must be a very
> complex process!
>
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> thanx arturo,
>
> but my questions is can the plant with this capacity (4380 tonns/day)
> will have 2500 lines or more ? i don't have the p&id's so i really can't
> count the lines.
>
> Regards,
> Manoj
>
> Arturo Murillo wrote:
> >
> > Manoj.
> >
> > (Lines are meters? ) I may be off, but that is a very wild guess.
> >
> > Go with the following:
> >
> > Pipe Cost for a fluid process plant is:
> >
> > As of percent of purchases-equipment: 36% Material, 30% Labor, (66%
> > Total) .
> >
> > Ref: Plant Design and Economics for Chemical Engineers, by Max S.
> Peters.
> >
> > Good luck,
> >
> > Arturo Murillo
> > Tuberias Visa
> > México.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Manoj Varma
> > To: PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com
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> > Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 9:28 AM
> > Subject: [PipingDesign] Amount of piping
> >
> > hi,
> >
> > in phophoric acid plant made by wet process (hemidydrate)
> >
> > capacity : 4380 tonns/day
> >
> > can any body please tell about how many pipe lines will involve.
> >
> > i have some rough estimate is about 2500 lines is this correct.
> >
> > this plant have 900 equipments
> >
> > regards,
> > Manoj
> >
>
>

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Received on Tue Apr 03 00:36:00 2007