Pipe Systems Engineering: Plant Piping to Cross-Country Pipelines: Design Principles, Materials, Fluid Flow, Stress and Flexibility, Fabrication, and Integrity Programs

A flange that leaks under thermal load. A pump knocked out of alignment by its own piping. A thin line crushed by vacuum. A buried pipeline that corrodes unseen for twenty years. Every one of these failures was preventable.

Pipe Systems Engineering gives you the engineering judgement that prevents them. It is one of the few books that covers both worlds of the discipline in a single, connected sequence: the dense plant piping inside refineries, chemical plants and power stations, and the cross-country pipelines that carry oil, gas and water between them. Instead of fragments scattered across codes and handbooks, you follow a system through its whole life, from the first line on a plot plan to the integrity assessment of a pipeline that has run for decades.

What sets this book apart

• The reasoning behind the rules. Every code requirement is traced back to the physics, so you can apply it with confidence and recognise when a situation falls outside it.


• Plant and pipeline side by side. See exactly how process piping and pipeline codes differ in allowable stress, design factors, testing and integrity, so you can move confidently between the two.


• 77 fully worked examples. Real numbers, every step shown, each closing with a check and a practical comment you can reproduce on your own projects.


• 161 full-colour figures. Realistic plant, pipeline and construction scenes alongside clear engineering diagrams and charts.


• 47 reference tables, learning objectives, summaries, key terms and review questions in every chapter.

What you will master

• Foundations: code jurisdiction and boundaries, design pressure and temperature, fluid service categories, flange ratings, valves and piping classes, material selection, MDMT and impact testing, sour and hydrogen service, wall thickness with mill tolerance, class locations, branch reinforcement, vacuum collapse and MAOP.


• Hydraulics: friction and minor losses, compressible gas flow, line sizing, pump and system curves, NPSH, water hammer, line packing, surge protection and slug flow.


• Layout, supports and stress: pipe racks, pump suction piping, relief and flare systems, isometrics and cut lengths, support spans, spring hangers, friction, expansion loops, stress intensification, nozzle loads and restrained buried pipe.


• Pipelines and construction: route selection, potential impact radius, buried pipe loads, road and river crossings, HDD, buoyancy control, welding procedures, PWHT, construction spreads, hot taps, examination methods and hydrostatic and pneumatic testing.


• Lifetime integrity: coatings, cathodic protection design and criteria, AC interference, corrosion under insulation, in-line inspection, remaining strength of corroded pipe, repairs, remaining life and management of change.

Who it is for: mechanical, chemical and civil engineers, piping designers, pipeline and integrity engineers, stress engineers, inspectors, project engineers and engineering students. No previous study of piping is assumed; first-degree mechanics, materials and fluid mechanics are enough.

Whether you are starting your first piping project, moving from plant work into pipelines, or want one dependable reference that explains the why as well as the how, this is the book to keep on your desk.