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Within
industry,
piping is a system of
pipes used to convey
fluids and
gases, from one location to another. The
engineering discipline of piping
design studies the best and most efficient manner of transporting fluid to where it's needed.
Industrial process piping (and accompanying in-line components) can be manufactured from
wood,
glass,
steel,
aluminum,
plastic,
copper, and
concrete. The in-line components, known as
fittings,
valves, and other devices, typically sense and control the
pressure,
flow rate and
temperature of the transmitted fluid, and usually are included when one discusses the concept of piping design. Piping systems are documented in
Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams. If necessary, pipes can be cleaned by the
tube cleaning process.
Plumbing is a piping system that most people are familiar with, as it constitutes the form of fluid transportation that's used to provide potable
water and
fuels to their homes and business. Plumbing pipes also remove waste in the form of
sewage, and allow venting of sewage gases to the outdoors.
Fire sprinkler systems also use piping, and may transport potable or nonpotable water, or other fire-suppression fluids.
Piping also has many other industrial applications, which are crucial for moving raw and semi-processed fluids for refining into more useful products. Some of the more exotic materials of construction are
titanium,
chrome-moly and various other steel
alloys.
Pipe stress analysis
Process piping and power piping are typically checked by pipe stress engineers to verify that the routing, nozzle loads, hangers, and supports are properly placed and selected such that allowable pipe stress isn't exceeded under the appropriate
ASME code. This checking is usually done with the assistance of a
finite element pipe stress analysis program such as
Caesar II,
ROHR2,
CAEPIPE and AUTOPIPE.
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