Course Highlights
  • Learn a valuable step-by-step Piping Design Method and start designing your piping systems from scratch
  • Download our valuable sizing tables and dimensioning charts, essential to properly design your piping system
  • Download our valuable technical booklets covering Flanges & Valves
  • Test your knowledge with our 300+ QUIZ QUESTIONS
  • Build a strong understanding of piping design and construction principles for both metallic and nonmetallic piping systems
  • Explain the various pipe manufacturing and joining methods
  • Identify the different types of fittings and their application
  • Identify the different types of flanges, gaskets, and bolting materials
  • Identify the different types of valves, their basic parts and functions
  • Identify the different types of control valves, their basic parts and functions
  • Identify the different types of piping accessories (anchors, dummy and channel supports, spring hangers, hanger rods…)
  • Gain guidance for selecting the most appropriate pipe specification and material for your application
  • Gain guidance for selecting the most appropriate pipe spacing and arrangement to mitigate thermal expansion and successfully design your piping support systems
  • Explain the process of pipe identification
  • Appreciate the various piping classes based on the design and application
  • Know and familiarize yourself with international and national pipe standards and specifications (ASME, ANSI, AFNOR…)
  • Understand and evaluate the purpose, content, and importance of Piping Isometrics to the construction, commissionning, operation and maintenance of a plant
  • Learn how to READ, INTERPRET and successfully UNDERSTAND ALL Piping Isometrics through numerous real industrial examples
  • Learn how to DRAW your own Piping Isometrics through numerous real industrial examples
  • Download our valuable sizing tables and dimensioning charts, essential to properly draft and issue your own Piping Isometrics
  • Identify the 5 key sections of your Piping Isometrics (title block, grid system, revision block, notes and legend, engineering drawing block)
  • Know and identify valve symbols on your Piping Isometrics (gate, globe, ball, butterfly, needle…)
  • Know the standards and conventions for valve status (open, closed, throttled)
  • Identify valve position and failure mode on your Piping Isometrics when applicable (LO, LC, FO, FC, FAI…)
  • Know and identify process equipment symbols on your Piping Isometrics when applicable (pumps, compressors, heat exchangers, columns, furnaces, reactors…)
  • Determine specific information about a process piping including type of material in the line, line size, line number and type of insulation when applicable
  • Know and identify pipe fitting symbols on your Piping Isometrics (flanges, reductions, caps, spool pieces, unions…)
  • Know and identify the Piping Isometric symbols of safety devices that are used to safely isolate, vent & drain process equipment for ease of maintenance
  • Know and identify instrumentation symbols on your Piping Isometrics (flow meters, temperature transmitters, pressure gauges…)
  • Know the lettering and numbering standards for piping, instruments and equipment designation on your Piping Isometrics
  • Trace the flow of a process stream into your Piping Isometrics, through the pipes and equipment, and out of the Piping Isometrics
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum

2 Topics
Introduction to part 1/2
Before you start this first part of the masterclass

14 Topics
Pipe materials
Manufacturing methods
Sizing of pipe
Wall thickness
More on the schedule system
Pipe selection
Methods of joining pipe
Cast iron pipe
Joining cast iron pipe
Plastic pipe
Joining plastic pipe
Drawing pipe
Before proceeding to the next section
PIPE : Test your Knowledge

22 Topics
Introduction to pipe fittings
90° elbows
Long-radius elbows
Short-radius elbows
Reducing elbows
Mitered elbows
45° elbows
Weld tee
Stub-in
Stub-in reinforcements
Coupling
Reducers
Weld caps
Use of fittings
Screwed and socket-weld fittings
Unions
Plugs
Pipe nipples
Swage nipples
Flanged fittings
Before proceeding to the next section
FITTINGS : Test your Knowledge

20 Topics
Introduction to flanges
Rating flanges
Flange facings
Flat Face flanges (FF)
Raised Face flanges (RF)
Ring-Type Joint flanges (RTJ)
Flange types
Weld neck flanges
Slip-on flanges
How to fit and weld slip-on flanges
Lap-joint flanges
Threaded flanges
Socket-weld flanges
Reducing flanges
Blind flanges
Orifice flanges
Bolts
Gaskets
Before proceeding to the next section
FLANGES : Test your Knowledge

13 Topics
Important notes before starting this section on valves
Valve basics : Learning objectives
Introduction
Valve body
Valve bonnet
Valve trim
Disk and seat
Stem
Valve actuator
Valve packing
Introduction to the types of valves
Before proceeding to the next section
VALVE BASICS : Test your Knowledge

18 Topics
Valve types : Learning objectives
Numerous sizes styles and pound ratings
Gate valves
Globe valves
Ball valves
Plug valves
Diaphragm valves
Pinch valves
Butterfly valves
Needle valves
Check valves
Relief and Safety valves
Safety valves
Relief valves
Control valves
For more details on valve types assembling dismantling and installation
Before proceeding to the next section
TYPES OF VALVE : Test your Knowledge

8 Topics
Learning objectives
Introduction
Manual actuators
Electric motor actuators
Pneumatic actuators
Hydraulic actuators
Self-actuated valves
For more details on valve actuators

14 Topics
Introduction
Piping rack spacing
Pipe flexibility
Heat expansion
Pipe anchors
Pipe insulation shoes
Pipe guides
Pipe spans
Pipe supports
Field supports
Dummy supports
Hanger rods
Before proceeding to the next section
STD PIPING DETAILS : Test your Knowledge

22 Topics
Introduction to piping codes & specifications
Piping codes
Specifications
Scope
Code requirements
Drawing
Piping
Instruments
Vents & drains
Kind reminder - General Piping Specifications
Orifices
Clearance & spacing
Insulation & painting
Fabrication tolerances
Shipping lengths
Piece marking & painting
Testing
Pipe labeling and color codes
Piping specification classes
Concrete example of a piping class
Before proceeding to the next section
PIPING CODE & SPECIFICATION : Test your Knowledge

3 Topics
Introduction
Piping design methodology : Problem set-up
Piping design methodology : A set by step guide

18 Topics
Introduction
Horizontal vessels
Vertical vessels
Ladders Cages & Platforms
Pumps : Overview
Pumps : Nozzle arrangement
Pump drivers
Compressors : Overview
Heat Exchangers : Overview
Shell & Tube
Double pipe
Reboilers
Air fans
Cooling towers
Furnaces
Storage tanks
Before proceeding to the next section
MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT : Test your Knowledge

1 Topic
Summary of part 1/2 downloadable resources

2 Topics
Introduction to part 2/2
Before you start this second part of the masterclass

6 Topics
What is an isometric ?
Why is an isometric so important ?
How do isometrics look like ?
Intro to isometric piping symbols
Isometric orientation
ABOUT ISOS : Test your knowledge

11 Topics
Learning objectives
Introduction to piping isometric reading
Anatomy of a piping isometric drawing
The title block
The drawing scale
The grid system
The revision block
Changes
Notes and legend
Section wrap-up
ISOMETRIC READING : Test your knowledge

12 Topics
Basic piping isometric symbols : Learning objectives
Valve symbols
Valve actuator symbols
Control valve designations
Standards and conventions for valve status
Process equipment symbols
Piping symbols
Pipe fitting symbols
Isolating venting & draining symbols for ease of maintenance
Instrumentation
Sensing devices and detectors
Location symbols

5 Topics
Piping isometric codes : Learning objectives
Piping designation code
Equipment designation code
Instrument designation code
Miscellaneous designation codes

12 Topics
Drawing piping isometrics : Learning objectives
Introduction
The drawing procedure
Isometric coordinates
Dimensions notes and callouts
Isometric offsets
Dimensioning offsets
Multi-angle offsets
Rolling offsets
Dimensioning rolling offsets
Simplifying the calculations
DRAWING ISOMETRICS : Test your knowledge

5 Topics
Piping isometric example #1
Piping isometric example #2
Piping isometric example #3
Piping isometric example #4
Piping isometric example #5

1 Topic
Downloadable resources part 2/2

1 Topic
Bonus

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