What is Piping Engineering and Its Scope in Mechanical Industries ?

Before we Learn about What is Piping Engineering and scope of Piping Engineering In Mechanical Based Industries . First lets Know about What is Pipe and Piping Process ?

When a fluid is required to be transferred from one location to other, pipe is required. A pipe is considered as a pressure tight cylinder which is used to convey fluids under pressure through materials of commercially available designation.

What is a Pipe ?

A pipe is a tubular section or hollow cylinder, usually but not necessarily of circular cross-section, used mainly to convey substances which can flow — liquids and gases (fluids), slurries, powders, masses of small solids. It can also be used for structural applications; hollow pipe is far stronger per unit weight than solid members.
Piping systems act like a nervous system for the flow of fluid in the huge network of any industry around the globe.

What is Piping ?

Piping is an assembly of pipe, pipe fittings, valves, instruments and specialty components.
Piping is divided into three major categories:

• Large bore pipe generally includes piping which is greater than two inches in diameter.
• Small bore pipe generally includes piping which is two inches and smaller in diameter.
• Tubing is supplied in sizes up to four inches in diameter but has a wall thickness less than that of either large bore or small bore piping and is typically joined by compression fittings.

What is Piping Engineering ?

The most interesting branch of science in Mechanical Engineering is Piping .Piping Engineering has great scope all over the World. Piping is more often referred as ‘HALF SCIENCE & HALF ART’. 

Piping Engineering is a specialized engineering discipline that deals with the planning and layout of a robust piping system with an aim to effectively transport fluids, such as liquids and gases, from one point to the other within a process plant or a commercial building.

Owing to the fact that pipes are quite elementary to our day-to-day needs and to industries such as Oil & Gas, Energy, Construction, Manufacturing, Chemical etc., there is always a need for trained and skilled Piping Engineers who can support the design, implementation and maintenance of complex and large-scale piping systems for these industries.Piping engineering is all about designing, fabricating and constructing lines for conveying fluids.
Importance of Piping Engineering:

• To maintain pressure difference (Δp)
• To maintain temperature difference (Δt)
• To maintain flow rate (Δq)

Piping Engineering includes production of various drawings and documents. It is very important for any industrial plant. Some of the activities for Piping Design and Detailed Engineering :- 3D modeling, plot plan, stress anaysis, support engineering, piping modeling, support modeling and many more.

The Best software used for Piping Engineering by us:-

• SP3D(Civil engineering/Electrical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering)
• PDMS
• PDS
• CAESAR-2

Moreover, with increasing modernisation and industrial growth, the Piping Industry is also poised for greater heights which will result in more employment opportunities for Mechanical Engineers who are trained in this high potential domain.

Scope of Work & Responsibilities of Piping Engineer :-

• The piping department of an engineering and construction company generally begins with the piping and instrumentation diagram (P&ID).
• Process department prepares process flow sheet, which begins with the chemical reaction and after carrying out material and energy balance and equipment selection, which is further utilized to prepare a first version of P&ID.
• This means that one can now begin actual plant design. Going through steps of plot plan and equipment layout, the next step is to start designing piping system for material transport.
• In our course, we will be adopting a building block concept, where we will begin with pipes selected by line sizing and hydraulics of pumps and compressors used to transport material. These pipes are “connected” using pumps and compressors, add to it the valves, safety devices, measuring instruments and control components and first rough sketch of piping structure would be over.
• However a scientific and systematic approach is developed over the years and design codes and practices evolved are used to go through a step-by-step procedure to come up with a piping system structure.
• Learning this systematic science is the aim of this course. No such structure will be approved by engineers unless its stress analysis is done including stress at the connecting components such as nozzles, flanges, pipe supports and so on.
• We will be using pipe stress software to find if designed structure can sustain static, dynamic and combined stresses
• General flowcharts for piping design procedures in parts at least are provided during the actual exercises.
• Thus, process and piping are becoming a major force in engineering, procurement and construction (epc) companies as part of Engineering IT culture being developed and justify a growing need for qualified engineers to take up this profession.