Diploma in Piping Engineering and Design

Describe the types of building pipe services, including cold and hot water installations, drainage above and below ground, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, fire fighting and gas installations, with regulatory considerations.

Explains the methods of supplying water, focusing on gravity supply, pump supply, and combined supply, and how elevation and source-to-consumer relationships govern flow.

Design a water distribution system by selecting grid, branching, loop, or combined configurations. Assess domestic, industrial and commercial, agriculture, and fire demand, velocity, pressure, pipe sizes, head losses, and expandability.

Discover pipe network analysis by determining flow rate and distribution at the outflow point, ensuring continuity and energy balance, using looped method, nodal method, and Newton method.

Apply the Hardy Cross method to analyze pipe networks with one or more closed loops by dividing the network, assigning initial flows, and iteratively updating flows until corrections vanish.

The lecture demonstrates solving a nonlinear pipe network using the Newton-Raphson method, deriving the Jacobian, delta q corrections, and iterative updates to Q1–Q4 until convergence.

Explore fluid systems where liquids and gases flow through pipes, channels, and ducts in engineering applications, from oil and gas lines to industrial ventilation, drainage, boilers, and nuclear reactors.

Friction in fluid flow creates energy loss; engineers assess resistance to flow from fluid properties, surface roughness, and system dimensions to determine energy requirements.

Explain how energy losses arise in pipe systems through friction and fittings, using Bernoulli's principle and hydraulic head to distinguish major and minor head losses.

Explore major losses, minor losses, and head loss mechanisms in pipe flow, including friction factors, Reynolds number regimes, laminar or turbulent flow, and wall roughness.

Identify and quantify minor losses in piping systems, including sudden expansion and bends, and apply practices such as correct sizing, optimized network length, and reduced roughness to minimize head losses.

Explore how local losses in piping are represented using equal length, equal-length data, and the resistance (K) method. Compare 2K and 3K approaches for accurate pressure loss.

Identify core piping components—pipes, elbows, flanges, gaskets, and joints—covering nominal pipe size, standard dimensions, thickness, and typical lengths for design and maintenance.

Assess leak tightness and pressure integrity of piping systems using hydraulic or pneumatic tests, with minimum 10-minute durations, joint and gasket checks, and water medium or alternatives if freezing risk.

Explore the fitting arrangement of inlets, coach, and outlet, and learn how to correctly arrange the coupling. Understand how inlet plastic and trestle gorge influence outer and outlet pressures.

Drain pipe only when the top outlet is open; test with two gorges to avoid single-code errors; never pressurize vessels or use high-discharge foam for volumes under ten cubic meters.

Compare international piping design standards, including ASME B31.3, B31.1, B31.5, B31.8, and B31.9, and explain how service categories, design conditions, and material classes guide pipe size, material, and thickness selection.

Explore piping system configurations, including socket welded configuration, socket plan, pipe trees, elbows, and thread configuration for utility, water, and connection.

Define and execute the stages of piping design from manual drafting to 3D modelling, incorporating data collection, site surveys, design basis memoranda, piping specifications, and equipment layout.

Define the design basis for piping projects, including scope, design approach, standards, material selection criteria, and design assumptions, to guide documentation and approvals from project start.

Explain two piping calculations: wall thickness for internal pressure and pipe support as a beam, using bending moment and simple supported beam formulas, then compare stress to allowable design limits.

Perform piping stress analysis to ensure flexibility or rigidity and prevent overstress, distortion, leakage in piping and connected equipment. Use manual and computer methods with stiffness matrices and code-based tests.

Explore how standard PMS and CPRS guide piping engineers through material details, fittings, flanges, joints, valves, and piping flexibility for thermal expansion and safe fluid transfer.

Explore insulation for piping and fittings to conserve heat, stabilize processes, and protect against fire hazards, using chemically inert, low-chloride materials suitable from -195 to 125 degrees celsius.

Master piping layout design with detailed equipment layouts, isometric and vessel drawings, and piping and instrumentation data. Learn how SPP&ID software embeds pipe data for efficient plant planning.

Perform pipe stress and flexibility analysis under various loading conditions, assess temperature-induced growth, and verify stresses against the governing court using Pisces, Platts 2000, and Seas.