Advanced Piping and Plant Engineering

Start Date End Date Venue Fees (US $)
05 Apr 2026 Dubai, UAE $ 3,900 Register
17 May 2026 Cape town $ 4,950 Register
04 Oct 2026 Riyadh, KSA $ 3,900 Register

Advanced Piping and Plant Engineering

Introduction

Compliance with ANSI code requirements for design and Construction is needed to assure the safety petroleum refinery and chemical plant piping. The designer, fabricator, supplier, erector, examiner, and inspector understands And application of these requirements is essential in producing this desired safety. Also since the plant owner has overall responsibility for compliance with ANSI B31.3, he must likewise have an overall understanding of the intention and limitations imposed by code.

Objectives

    This course provides a background and ANSI code guidance on design, materials, stress analysis, and practical methods and trends in piping and pipe support the design and stress analysis and construction. Essential in producing this desired safety. Also since the plant owner has overall responsibility for compliance with ANSI B31.3, he must likewise have an overall understanding of the intention and limitations imposed by code.

Training Methodology

This is a highly interactive training course with opportunities to advance your opinions and ideas. Participation is encouraged in a supportive environment. To ensure the concepts introduced during the program are understood, they will be reinforced through a mix of learning methods, including lecture-style presentations, open discussion, case studies, simulations, and group work.

Who Should Attend?

This course is designed for engineers entering the piping design and analysis field; piping engineers requiring background on Code compliance and trends in piping design and pipe supports design and analysis, plant owners, piping fabricators and suppliers wishing to extend their knowledge to induce a supplementary understanding of piping design and analysis. The course also of interest to practicing piping design and analysis personnel interested in expanding their knowledge by interaction with other people, viewpoints, and experience in the field; and supervisory personnel requiring a review on current design and analysis techniques

Course Outline

Day 1:

  • Overview of Piping Codes, definitions.
  • Piping design criteria: Design conditions, design
  • Loads (pressure, dead-weight, thermal, seismic, wind vibration, hydraulic, anchor movement); stress tables and allowable stresses.
  • Pressure design: Wall thickness calculation; nozzle openings, and pressure-temperature ratings.
  • Definition of critical piping type and analysis required.

Day 2:

  • External Loads Design: Flexibility, fatigue, stress intensification, combined loads, cold spring, and
  • Simplified analysis methods.
  • Piping Thermal Expansion analysis and stresses due to dead-weight and wind load consideration.
  • Degrees of freedom/pipe support types.
  • Piping and Pipe support Materials: Proper selection (strength, ductility, and hardness), fabrication,
  • Inspection and testing (tensile, elongation, hardness).

Day 3:

  • Code allowable forces and moments for machinery nozzles due to piping configuration.
  • Pipe Support Design and analysis: Support types, assumptions, load combinations, variable supports, lugs and attachments.
  • Loads on support & graphical methods for finding loads on support.
  • Calculating preferred points of support.

Day 4:

  • Pipe Spans calculations, fundamental cantilever formulas.
  • Piping Flexibility: Quick check method and necessary flexible length calculations.
  • Pipe supports for storage tanks.
  • Purred pipelines analysis, basics for dynamic analysis of piping.

Day 5:

  • Design of pipe hanger: Type (rigid, constant support & variable spring), Span, Thermal movement
  • Calculations and Load calculations.
  • Supporting of process piping area and tank farm.
  • The use of computer programs for piping stress analysis and design of pipe supports.
  • Expansion joints.
  • Key documents to perform pipe supports and analysis.
  • Proceeding complete piping design and stress analysis using software package Auto PIPE.

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