RE: pipe routing - a rookie (bio-pharm) seeking yo ur expertise

The Pipe Fabrication Institute handbook would be very helpful. It will give the tolerance during fabrication and erection. get the complete set if your dealing with process piping. Another excellent source is the MSS.

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> From: Raghav Srivastava[SMTP:rsrivastava@new.rr.com]
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> Subject: [PipingDesign] pipe routing - a rookie (bio-pharm) seeking
> your expertise
>
> I'm right out of engineering college and have been challenged with the
> task
> of routing interconnecting piping for a pharmaceutical grade plant (module
> design of skids).
> Armed with Quickpen's Pipedesigner 3D and P&ID's, I have to come up with a
> complete plant piping within weeks.
> I've picked up a thing or two from this forum, brainstorming within my
> team
> and general reading. I have to admit though, I have more questions than
> answers. To give you an example of some of the basic questions I had/have
> were -
>
> *Should I run N-S piping at a set elevation and E-W piping at another
> elevation (say 24" lower)
> * Now, I have SS piping that starts in the N-S direction (pipe rack) and
> then runs in the E-W direction (to a tank, say) . If the N-S AND the E-W
> piping is sloped at 1/8" per foot why don't they make an elbow at 89.4
> degrees or 90.6 degrees (and other odd angles)... I thought about that one
> for days and came up with the solution that the piping is going to have to
> 'flex' and instead of pre-fabricating the piece, I'll have to leave a
> spool
> piece or two for a field fit based on the 'give' of this BP fitting.
>
> As you can see, all my questions are basic-basic with their solutions
> (basic
> logic) being more basic. I'd appreciate any thumb rules you can share with
> me and also point me in the right direction as far as resources go
> (seminars, books, classes, etc.). It seems I'm trying to rediscover the
> 'art' of piping, routing, plant layout when someone else has probably
> thought through it over the years already.
> So even though the rule says don't type in this as your descriptive, I'm
> going to anyways...HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLP !!!!
>
> Thanks in advance for your time and help,
>
> Ragz
>
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Received on Wed May 16 08:21:00 2001