This course will examine the fundamental requirements outlined in the ASME B31 Code for Pressure Piping, with a specific focus on B31.3, which pertains to Process Piping. Throughout the course, a comparative analysis will be conducted between ASME B31.3 and ASME B31.1, which addresses Power Piping.

Course Objectives:

The aim of this course is to provide the participants with a complete and up-to-date overview of the area of Piping Technology with an emphasis on process piping. The course covers the design, fabrication, examination, and testing requirements of ASME B31.3. It covers Code requirements from design through the start-up of new piping systems, as well as standards for inspection and repair of piping systems that have been in service, as provided in API 570, Piping Inspection Code.

This course provides a working knowledge of the Code, how it is organized, its intent, the basis for requirements, including both design and construction (fabrication, erection, and testing) aspects. It provides a foundation of knowledge necessary for those responsible for assuring the mechanical integrity of existing piping systems, as well as those responsible for designing and constructing new piping systems.

Upon the successful completion of this course, the participant will gain an understanding of the physical phenomena which affect the design of piping systems: the ASME Code formulas and other methods by which these phenomena can be analyzed to determine resulting stresses, evaluation of those stresses relative to ASME Code limitations, the methods by which piping systems are fabricated, inspected and tested, and the additional requirements which need to be in a fabrication/installation specification to ensure adequate and proper installation

Who Should Attend?

This course provides an overview of all significant aspects and considerations of piping for those who are involved in the design, analysis, fabrication, installation, maintenance, or ownership of piping systems. Engineers, Senior Draftsmen, maintenance, quality assurance, and manufacturing personnel who work in the chemical, petroleum, utility, plastic processing, pulp and paper, and manufacturing, fields will find it a time-saving means to broaden and update their knowledge of piping. Those who must comply with Code requirements will benefit from the practical approach presented in this course in obtaining satisfactory and economical piping systems

Course Outlines:

Introduction

Piping Codes Overview
Committee Organization and Scope
Organization of Code
Standards for Piping Components
Pipe Manufacturing
Failure Modes and Criteria
Design Conditions and Criteria

Pressure Design

External Pressure Design
Piping Layout and Support
Design of Spring Supports
Design Criteria for Cyclic Stresses
Piping Flexibility

Flexibility Analysis Methods

Computer Flexibility Analysis Demonstration
Equipment Load Limits
Cold Spring
Fluid Service Requirements

Material Requirements

Fabrication, Assembly and Erection
Inspection, Examination, and Testing
Overpressure Protection
Nonmetallic Piping
Piping for Category M Fluid Service
High-Pressure Piping

Flanges

Expansion Joints
Buried Piping
API 570 – Piping Inspection Code
Presentation of Certificates

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