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Pipe Support

07/22/2012 10:32 PM

HI ALL,

CAN ANYBODY TELL ME IF WE HAVE ANY CRETIREA FOR CHOOSING AND DESIGNING THE PIPE SUPPORTS

REGARDS

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Re: PIPE SUPPORT

07/22/2012 10:40 PM

YES, THERE ARE MANY.

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07/22/2012 10:44 PM

Yes, but you need much more information before anything meaningful can be supplied.

Is the pipe hanging or on stands?

What is the pipe material? (And wall thickness)

What is the material being carried? (Gas versus water versus slurry)

What is the pipe diameter? (With a small pipe, the pipe weight is most significant, but with bigger pipes the contents becomes significant.)

What is your jointing method? (Bolted flanges need different support than spiggot joints.)

How rigid is the support structure? (A metal bridge with thermal expansion joints or single rigid concrete span.)

Is the support to be a "saddle" that wraps around the pipe or a beam with a single point of contact?

Your pipe supplier will be the best source of data for the application you would have.

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Re: PIPE SUPPORT

07/23/2012 12:28 AM

THANK YOU

IF ALL OF THIS ARE AVAILABLE ,HOW SHOULD I START?

ANY CODE OR HANBOOK YOU ADVISE ME BY

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07/23/2012 2:55 AM

The FIRST step is to contact your pipe supplier or at least their web site. You first need to decide what pipe you are to be using and to do that you need to describe to them what will be going through the pipe and at what pressures etc. They will advise you on the pipe material to use and then they will be able to give you their own guidelines on "good workmanship" for instalation and the codes relevant.

If you are ina a specialist industry (Like petrochemicals) then there will be additional codes for you to satisfy. (My background is water and wastewater so I cannot advise you on the other details.)

By the way, unless there is some specific reason, turn your caps lock off. Some people don't like capitals on all the time. They regard it as "shouting" and will focus their attention onto that instead of helping you.

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Re: Pipe Support

07/23/2012 3:09 AM

Thank you so much

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Re: Pipe Support

07/23/2012 6:13 AM

It's difficult to tell from here, as only the CR4 user mostafaalkholy can see whether there are any procedures or handbooks at the facility in question.

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Re: Pipe Support

07/23/2012 11:50 PM

A mate of mine worked for 12 years as a pipe support engineer. There is a lot more to it than you would think.

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Re: Pipe Support

07/27/2012 8:34 AM

Others have already pointed out, too little data to give any answer at all.

Req data include * Piping material * Temp * Fluid density etc

Kellog Piping Handbook is a good one to refer , I am sure there are others as well

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