A Quick Guide to Pipeline Engineering
Paperback Engels 2008 9781845694906Samenvatting
Pipeline engineering requires an understanding of a wide range of topics. Operators must take into account numerous pipeline codes and standards, calculation approaches, and reference materials in order to make accurate and informed decisions.
A Quick Guide to Pipeline Engineering provides concise, easy-to-use, and accessible information on onshore and offshore pipeline engineering. Topics covered include: design; construction; testing; operation and maintenance; and decommissioning.
Basic principles are discussed and clear guidance on regulations is provided, in a way that will prove useful to both engineers and students.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
- The Quick Guide Series
- Invitation to New Authors
- Preface
- Summary
- Chapter1: Principles of Pipeline Design
- 1.1 Effect on the environment
- 1.2 Routing
- 1.3 Approval and legal considerations
- Chapter 2: Design Approach
- 2.1 Factors that influence the length of a pipeline
- 2.2 Choosing a wall thickness for the pipeline
- 2.3 Choosing an appropriate material grade for the pipeline
- 2.4 Toughness
- 2.2 Operational pressure
- 2.6 Temperature effects
- 2.7 Surge
- 2.8 Pipeline coating
- 2.9 Pipeline protection
- Chapter 3: Pipeline Construction and Risk Assessment Techniques
- 3.1 Pipeline manufacturing methods
- 3.2 Land preparation, excavation and pipe stringing
- 3.3 Corrosion protection
- 3.4 Pipeline codes and standards
- 3.5 Risk assessment techniques
- 3.6 Quantitative risk assessment
- 3.7 Qualitative risk assessment
- Chapter 4: Pressure Testing and Commissioning
- 4.1 Pressure testing
- 4.2 Commissioning
- Chapter 5: Pipeline Operation
- 5.1 Magnetic inspection
- 5.2 Ultrasonic inspection
- 5.3 Geometric tools
- 5.4 In-service defects and corrosion mechanisms
- Chapter 6: Pipeline Maintenance
- 6.1 Assessment of internal and external corrosion features
- 6.2 Assessing dents/profile distortions
- 6.3 Significance of manufacturing and construction defects
- Chapter 7: Pipeline Condition Monitoring and Repair Methods
- 7.1 Pearson survey
- 7.2 CIPPS survey
- 7.3 DCVG survey
- 7.4 Repair techniques
- Chapter 8: Pipeline Decommissioning and Industry Developments
- 8.1 Pipeline decommissioning
- 8.2 Pipeline industry developments
- References
- Index
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