Process Piping Design and Maintenance

The lack of commentary, or historical explanation, regarding the B31.3 Code design requirements for process piping design and construction is an obstacle to the designer, manufacturer, fabricator, supplier, erector, examiner, inspector, and owner, to provide a safe and economical piping system.

This five day course, through the use of examples of actual piping installations, and personal experience of the instructors, demonstrates how designers have correctly and incorrectly applied the ASME B31.3 Code.

This course explains the intent of the Code with respect to design and why the Code is not a design handbook.

Participants come away from this course with a clearer understanding of how piping systems fail and the requirements (and guidance) of the Code to prevent such failures. Participants will gain experience with the concerns and questions that must be addressed to produce a safe piping system, and will learn where and how to get these answers. Also included in this master class is a special module on the Fabrication and Examination Rules of the B31.3 Code.

Recognised for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) by Engineers Australia (EA) in accordance with EA CPD Guidelines.

Target Audience

For piping engineers and designers should attend who need a greater understanding of the Code design and analysis requirements to produce a safe-economical piping system for the plant owner.

Course Outline

• Piping code history
• Basic design philosophy, considerations, and criteria.
• Pressure design: wall thickness for internal and external pressure, fabricated branch intersection area replacement, unlisted piping component design, flange leakage moment and flange analysis, design of piping systems containing expansion joints, relief valve set pressure and thrust, and leak testing.
• External loads design – flexibility, fatigue, stress intensification factors, combined loads (sustained wind, earthquake), cold spring
• Pipe support design – support types, assumptions, load combinations, variable supports, lugs and attachments.
• Systems piping – pressure relief and limitations
• Materials, fabrication, examination, inspection and testing
• Fatigue design: flexibility, thermal expansion/contraction stress, allowable thermal stress, stress intensification factors, sustained load calculations, occasional load stress caused by wind and earthquake, pipe end reactions, means of increasing piping flexibility.
• Pipe supports: support design and analysis for weight and thermal loads, spring hanger sizing, support design for operating loads.

Includes a special module on the fabrication and examination rules of the B31.3 Code.

Day five of this program focuses on the fabrication and examination rules of the B31.3 Code to the Design and Materials Rules. The presentation will includeexamples of problems that occur as aresult of not understanding the relationshipof the ASME code to design rules andmaterials selection.

The primary goal of the final day of the program is to ensure that all participants have an insight into the reason for all rules relating to the ASME B31.3 Fabrication and Examination code, including:

• Piping materials and characteristics
• Piping fabrication processes including welding, bending and forming, preheat and PWHT
• Welding qualification requirements
• Examination, Inspection, and Testing
• Nondestructive examination processes

Facilitator Information

Glynn E. Woods, P.E.,

Course Director, is a practicing piping engineer with experience in piping design, stress analysis, supports, piping failure analysis, as well as piping component design, analysis and testing. For more than 35 years he has been providing this piping design expertise in new and operating petrochemical facilities. The piping component design, analysis and testing experience involved assisting piping component manufacturers to gain pressure design Code compliance for their product. Mr. Woods is a member of the ASME B31.3 Process Piping Code Committee.

Philip D. Flenner, P.E.

Is a senior welding consultant and founding member of Flenner Engineering Services, LLC. He has over 30 years of experience in welding qualifications and training, engineering training, power plant repair methods, quality control and performance assessment, nuclear dry fuel storage, and codes and standards. He is a member of the ASME B31 Code for Pressure Piping Main Committee, the B31.1 Power Piping Section Committee, and the ASME Section IX Committee on Welding and Brazing Qualifications as well as other national codes and standards committees.

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A 10% saving applies for Engineers Australia Members or for group bookings of 3 or more participants.