Process Plant Layout and Piping Design, Level-III
What you'll learn
Implement Design Strategy: Develop and enforce a comprehensive Basis of Design (BOD) for layout, driving standardization and compliance across the project.
Manage Brownfield Constraints: Master the advanced planning and execution required for integrating new piping systems into existing plant infrastructure (Brownfield projects), minimizing shutdown time and maximizing safety.
Optimize Project Cost (Value Engineering): Apply Value Engineering (VE) principles to layout decisions to achieve quantifiable reductions in CAPEX (material costs) and OPEX (maintenance and energy costs).
Lead Safety and Review Workshops: Effectively participate in and lead HAZOP, SIL, and advanced 3D Model Review sessions, driving corrective actions that resolve critical risks.
Validate Stress Analysis Feedback: Critically review the Stress Analysis Report to ensure the final layout satisfies mechanical integrity requirements and manage design iteration cycles efficiently.
Develop Modularization Plans: Evaluate the technical feasibility and cost benefits of modularization and offsite fabrication for large sections of the plant.
Design of Bolted Flange Joints
What you'll learn
You Will Learn To
Develop an awareness of flange types and the ASME codes and standards applicable for bolted flange joint design
Enhance your knowledge for designing and analyzing bolted flange joints
Explain how the flange design interacts with bolts and gaskets to achieve a leak tight joint
Identify the parameters that can affect flange sealing along with methods to troubleshoot and remediate flange leakage
Bolted Joints and Gasket Behavior
What you'll learn
Explain how the bolted joint functions as a mechanical system that relies on the simultaneous interaction of the three primary components to successfully seal the connection
Assess the mechanical stress and strain of a bolt and explain the challenges that one encounters when specifying an optimum bolt load
Evaluate the total state of stress in bolts and how this effects the selection of a given bolt type and grade
Describe the effects of in-service conditions and how they reduce or increase bolt load
Describe the concept of leak tightness as a predictable value of gasket stress and how to use leak tightness as the basis of specifying bolt loads
Identify conditions that create bolt failure
Use ASME PCC-1 Guidelines for compliance to successful sealing of bolted, gasketed connections
Discern how to use either stress or strain to select bolt load
Evaluate the various methods of attaining bolt load.
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Piping Flexibility and Support
What you'll learn
Paving the way of piping designer to consider code provision.
Provide mandatory introduction to piping stress engineering.
Complete awareness on piping supporting system for construction and maintenance engineers.
Intermediate
Piping Resilient Supports. Selection, Spec’s, Procurement, Installation and Maintenance
$480.00
Piping Resilient Supports. Selection, Spec’s, Procurement, Installation and Maintenance
What you'll learn
Covers the whole cycle of resilient support, starting by design and ends at maintenance.
Understanding the true function and clear the popular myth.
Change the focus on pipe support from just a member to important asset.
Pipe Stress analysis and supporting systems for piping designers
What you'll learn
Eliminate Design Iterations: Proactively design layouts that meet mechanical requirements, directly reducing costly communication loops and eliminating re-work cycles between the Piping Design and Stress Analysis teams.
Translate Code to CAD: Gain the essential knowledge of stress analysis criteria (e.g., thermal flexibility, support span limits) and learn to implement these ASME B31 code rules directly within your 3D modeling environment.
Master Load Vector Generation: Understand precisely how your layout decisions (routing, branch connections, component weight) directly translate into critical load vectors that determine the compliance of the entire system.
Optimize Support System Placement: Select and place piping support systems not just for weight, but to effectively control displacement and manage moment loads, making the system inherently mechanically sound from the initial draft.
Accelerate Deliverable Approval: Structure and prepare piping deliverables (Isometrics, Plan Views) to proactively address the stress engineer's needs, leading to faster review cycles and accelerated project turnover.
Validate Constructability & Compliance: Achieve true engineering synergy by ensuring your designs are simultaneously constructable, cost-efficient, and fully compliant with ASME flexibility and sustained stress limits.
Pipe Stress Engineering-Academic foundation
What you'll learn
Differentiate between properties of various engineering materials.
Apply fundamental principles of stress, strain, and material failure theories.
Perform stress analysis on different structural components.
Utilize Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software for complex problems.
Analyze thermal, static, and dynamic loads.
Develop a strong theoretical foundation for specialized fields like pipe stress analysis.
Pipe Stress Engineering, Static
What you'll learn
Execute the accurate geometric and topological discretization of the pressure envelope and ancillary components within the CAESAR II
Define and integrate the set of time-invariant static load vectors
Conduct a rigorous tensor evaluation of primary and secondary stresses
Nozzle and Support Reaction Profiling
Resolve the effects of non-linear boundary conditions
Validate the mechanical integrity compliance margin
Drafting hardware technical specification
Moving among Compliance, Value and Energy
Master the final phase of analysis, producing irrefutable, audit-proof documentation.
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