Pipeline Rules of Thumb Handbook : A Manual of Quick, Accurate Solutions to Everyday Pipeline Engineering Problems.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McAllister, E. W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pipelines--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Pipelines -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (807 pages)

Edition:

8th ed.

Place of Publication:

San Diego : Elsevier Science & Technology, 2013.

Contents:

Front Cover

Pipeline Rules of Thumb Handbook: A Manual of Quick, Accurate Solutions to Everyday Pipeline Engineering Problems

Copyright

Contents

1: General Information

Basic Formulas

Mathematics-areas

Mathematics-surfaces and volumes

Rules of exponents

Recommended drill sizes for self-tapping screws

Determine pulley speed

Calculate volume in horizontal storage tank with ellipsoidal or hemispherical heads

ASTM standard reinforcing bars

Pressure rating for carbon steel flanges

Cables and Ropes

Estimating strength of cable

Find the working strength of Manila rope

How large should drums and sheaves be for various types of wire rope?

Find advantages of block and tackle, taking into account pull out friction

Safe loads for wire rope

Stress in guy wires

Strength and weight of popular wire rope

Measuring the diameter of wire rope

Wire rope: field troubles and their causes

Capacity of drums

Belts and Shafts

Determine length of a V-belt

Calculate stress in shaft key

Calculate V-belt length using simple equation

Estimate the horsepower that can be transmitted by a shaft

Miscellaneous

How to estimate length of material contained in roll

Convenient antifreeze chart for winterizing cooling systems

How to determine glycol requirements to bring a system to a desired temperature protection level

Weight in pounds of round steel shafting

Properties of shafting

Tap drills and clearance drills for machine screws

Common nails

Drill sizes for pipe taps

Carbon steel-color and approximate temperature

Bolting dimensions for flanges

Flange Bolt Tightening Sequence

Steel fitting dimensions

ANSI forged steel flanges

Trench shoring-minimum requirements

Reuniting separated mercury in thermometers

Typical wire resistance.

How to cut odd-angle long radius elbows

How to read land descriptions

Sample sections showing rectangular land descriptions, acreages, and distances

Size an air receiver for engine starting

Dimensions of hex nuts and hex jam nuts

Color codes for locating underground utilities

Approximate angle of repose for sloping sides of excavations

Wind chill chart

Pipeline Pigging

Sizing plates

Caliper pigging

Cleaning after construction

Flooding for hydrotest

Dewatering and drying

Pig Trap Design

Estimate volume of on-shore oil spill

Estimating spill volume on water

Fluid Power Formulas

2: Construction

Project Scoping Data

Project scoping data worksheet for major facilities

Right-of-Way

How to determine the crop acreage included in a right-of-way strip

Clearing and grading right-of-way: labor/equipment considerations

Estimating man hours for removing trees

Estimating man hours for removing tree stumps

Clearing and grading right-of-way

Ditching

How many cubic yards of excavation in a mile of ditch?

Shrinkage and expansion of excavated and compacted soil

Ditching and trenching: labor/equipment considerations

Concrete Work

How to approximate sacks of cement needed to fill a form

What you should know about mixing and finishing concrete

Pipe Laying

How to determine the degrees of bend in a pipe that must fit a ditch calling for a bend in both horizontal and vertical planes

How to bend a pipe to fit a ditch-sags, overbends, and combination bends

Pipe bending computations made with a hand-held calculator

Calculate maximum bend on cold pipe

Determine length of a pipe bend

Length of pipe in arc subtended by any angle

Average pipelay table-underground

Average pipelay table-on supports

Allowable pipe span between supports.

How engineers make pipe fit the ditch

Pipe Lowering

How to lower an existing pipeline that is still in service

When should steel be preheated before welding?

Welding and brazing temperatures

Mechanical properties of pipe welding rods

Lens shade selector

Pipeline Welding

How many welds will the average welder make per hour?

How much welding rod is required for a mile of schedule 40 pipeline?

How many pounds of electrodes are required per weld on line pipe?

Welding criteria permit safe and effective pipeline repair

Cross-country pipeline-vertical down electrode consumption, pounds of electrode per joint∗

Guidelines for a successful directional crossing bid package

3: Pipe Design

Steel pipe design

Properties of pipe

Length of pipe in bends

Calculation of pipe bends

Spacing of pipe supports

American standard taper pipe threads (NPT)

British standard taper pipe threads

Normal engagement between male and female threads to make tight joints

Calculate pipe weight, contents, velocity

Formulas and constants of value in solving problems relating to tubular goods

How to calculate the contraction or expansion of a pipeline

Estimate weight of pipe in metric tons per kilometer

How to find pipe weight from outside diameter and wall thickness

What is the maximum allowable length of unsupported line pipe?

Identify the schedule number of pipe by direct measurement

Determine buoyancy of bare steel pipe

Determine buoyancy of bare and concrete-coated steel pipe in water and mud

Weights of piping materials

Allowable working pressure for carbon steel pipe

Find the stress in pipe wall due to internal pressure

How to calculate stress in above ground/below ground transitions

How to identify the series number of flanged fittings.

Dimensions of three-diameter ells with tangents

Spectacle blind thicknesses

Polypipe design data

4: Electrical Design

Electrical design

Hazardous locations

NEMA enclosure types1

Size portable electric generators

Typical wattages for tools and appliances

Knockout dimensions

National electrical code tables

Electrical formulas

Full-load currents-single-phase transformers

Conduit size for combinations of cables with different outside diameters

Minimum bending radius for insulated cables for permanent training during installation

Full-load currents-three-phase transformers

Motor controller sizes

Voltage drop on circuits using 600 V copper conductors in steel conduit

Determine the most economical size for electric power conductors

How to find the resistance and weight of copper wires

What you should remember about electrical formulas

How to calculate microwave hops on level ground

For quick determination of the horsepower per ampere for induction motors (3 phase) at different voltages

Chart of electric motor horsepower for pumping units

Pumping stations

FLOODLIGHTING CONCEPTS

Terms

Floodlighting calculations

Point-by-point method

Beam-lumen method

Design procedure

Conductor size conversion chart-metric to AWG

Commonly used switchgear device numbers

Bonding the grounding system to building and structure foundations

5: Hydrostatic Testing

The Benefits and Limitations of Hydrostatic Testing

Hydrostatic testing for pipelines

Volume of water required to fill test section

Volume required at test pressure

How to use charts for estimating the amount of pressure change for a change in test water temperature

Basis for chart development

Compressibility factor for water

Hydrostatic test records.

6: Pipeline Drying

Pipeline Dewatering, Cleaning, and Drying∗

Dewatering

Cleaning pipelines

Brush pig run with gas

Brush pig run with liquid

Internal sand blasting

Chemical cleaning

Pipeline drying

Moisture content of air

Commissioning petrochemical pipelines

Acknowledgement

Literature cited

Vacuum drying

7: Control Valves

Control valve sizing formulas

Sizing control valves for throughput

Control valve selection

Relief Valve Sizing, Selection, Installation, and Testing

Rupture disk sizing

Rupture disk sizing using the resistance to flow method (KR)

Variable orifice rotary control valves

Sizing Valves for Gas and Vapor

Basic valve flow-capacity coefficient (Cv)

Easily visualize pump and control valve interaction

Bibliography

Avoid cavitation in butterfly valves

Literature Cited

How to read a regulator flow curve

Sidebar: regulator flow curve terminology

About the author

8: Corrosion/Coatings

National Association of Pipe Coating Applications (NAPCA) specificationsaaNOTE: These are not all the specifications approv ...

NAPCA Specifications Pipeline Felts

Minimum test voltages for various

How much primer for a mile of pipe?

How much coal-tar enamel for a mile of pipe?

How much wrapping for a mile of pipe?

Estimating coating and wrapping materials required per mile of pipe

Coefficient of friction for pipe coating materials

Troubleshooting cathodic protection systems: Magnesium anode system

Cathodic protection for pipelines

Estimate the pounds of sacrificial anode material required for offshore pipelines

Comparison of other reference electrode potentials with that of copper-copper sulfate reference electrode at 25 °C

Chart aids in calculating ground bed resistance and rectifier power cost.

How can output of magnesium anodes be predicted?.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: McAllister, E. W. Pipeline Rules of Thumb Handbook

ISBN:

9780123876942

OCLC:

867925819