Pipe Line Rules of Thumb Handbook: A Manual of Quick, Accurate Solutions to Everyday Pipe Line Problems

Providing quick and accurate solutions to pipe line problems, this comprehensive volume also covers new information on a variety of techniques and developments in the pipe line industry. Material has been added to the existing sections on welding, electrical design and corrosion. New articles in this edition cover: calculating the length of pipe in bends; spacing and pipe supports; pipe threads; commissioning petrochemical lines; vacuum drying; variable orifice rotary control valves; relief valve selection, sizing, installation and testing; calculating the properties of liquids; calculating pressure and temperature losses for viscous crudes; transient pressure analysis; reciprocating pumps; and risk assessment.