Piping Design & Detailed Engineering

The following are the details of activities/ deliverables performed/prepared.

PIPING

Front End Engineering Design (FEED)

• Plot plan Development
• Conceptual Pipe Routing

Basic Design

• Piping Design Criteria Development
• Pipe Sizing Calculation
• Pressure Drop Calculation
• Piping Material Selection and Specification Preparation
  • Pipes, Fittings, Flanges, Gaskets, Fasteners, Valves, Accessories, etc.
  • Material Selection
  • Pipe Wall Thickness Calculation
  • Pipe Branch Reinforcement Pad requirement & Thickness Calculation.

Pre Bid & Detailed Engineering Design

• Pre Bid Engineering
  • Review Basic Enquiry Drawings/ Documents
  • Data collection from client/ Site
  • Conceive proposed pipe routing
  • Estimate Bill of Quantities for the following items
    • Pipes & Fittings
    • Valves and other Accessories
    • Pipe Supports
    • Insulation
    • Painting Area
    • Coating & Wrapping
  • Obtain Budgetary offer from piping vendors for supply and erection and commissioning
  • Submit total project cost to client.

 

• Layout Engineering Design
  • Plot plan
  • Equipment Layout Plan & Elevation view Drawing Preparation.
  • Piping General Arrangement (Plan & Sections) Drawings.
  • Piping Isometrics
  • Pipe Spools
  • Equipment Nozzle Orientation Preparation
  • Vendor Drawing Review
  • Review of P & Ids

 

• Materials Engineering Design
  • Piping Procurement Specification Preparation
  • Insulation Procurement Specification Preparation
  • Painting Specification Preparation
  • Piping Bill of Materials
  • Pipe Support Bill of Materials
  • Specialties B.O.M
  • Technical Bid Evaluation

• Stress Analysis & Support Engineering Design
  • Pipe Stress Analysis (Static & Dynamic)
    • Routing
      • Above Ground Piping
        • Bare Piping
        • Insulated Piping
        • Internally Lined Piping (Example: Ceramic Lined Pulverized Coal Piping, etc.)
        • Jacketed
      • Buried
    • Location
      • In site (Main Process Plant)
      • Yard Piping (Example: Pipe rack, Sleeper, Trench, etc)
      • Offsite (Example: Tank farm, etc.)
      • Cross Country Pipelines
      • Sub sea
    • Material
    • Metallic
    • Nonmetallic (Example: FRP (GRP), HDPE, PVC, etc.)
    • Internally Lined Piping (Example: Ceramic Lined Pulverized Coal Piping, etc.)
    • Loads
      • Sustained
        • Weight:
          • Piping
          • Concentrated Loads (Example: Valves, Flanges, Strainers, etc.)
          • Fluid
          • Snow
          • Insulation
        • Fluid Pressure
        • Support Loads
          • Spring Stiffness
        • Thrust force of Expansion Bellow
      • Thermal
        • Core Fluid
        • Jacket Fluid
        • Sunlight
      • Occasional
        • Hydrostatic Test
        • Safety Valve's Reaction Force
        • Seismic Loads
        • Wind Loads
        • Transient Forces such as:
          • Vibration Analysis
          • Steam Hammer
          • Water Hammer
          • Sea Wave load spectrum
          • Safety Valve Reaction Force
      • Displacement
        • Terminal point movement
          • Thermal
          • Equipment Foundation Settlement (due to weak soil)
        • Pipe Support Movement
          • Thermal (Example: supports attached to the hot vessel, etc.)
          • Equipment Foundation Settlement (Example: supports attached to the equipment, etc.
          • Pipe Support Foundation Settlement (due to weak soil)
• Pipe Support Layouts
• Pipe Support Detail Drawings
• Spring Hanger Data Sheets
• Plates, Inserts & Loading Drawing (input to Civil)
  

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