1. PTE 316
Piping Design
Design Procedure:
The problem of design procedure is to find a pipeline configuration and size
within the constraints which is safe and economical. The steps in pipeline
design are as follows:
The determination of the problem , which includes the characteristics of the
fluid to be carried, including the flow rates and the allowable head loss
The location of the pipes, its source and destination, and terrain over which
it will pass
The design code to be followed and the material to be used.
The determination of a preliminary pipe route, the line length and static
head difference
Pipe diameter based on allowable head loss
Structural analysis such as wall thickness and stress analysis
The stress analysis is performed in pipe configuration until compliance with
the code is achieved.
2. Pipe types and applications
• Seamless pipes (SMLs): These pipes are extruded and
have no longitudinal seam. There is no weld and it’s
the strongest of the three types
• Electric resistance welded pipe (ERW): These pipes are
manufactured from plates, where the seam weld is
done by electric resistance welding. The welding
efficiency is 0.8
• Submerged arc welded pipe (SAW): These pipes are
manufactured from plates, normally rolled and steam
welded together. The welding has a joint efficiency of
0.95.
3. Piping design equations.
• Assuming steady state flow, there are a number
of equations which are based upon the general
energy equation, that can be employed to design
the piping systems. Although piping systems and
pipeline design can get complex, the majority of
the design problems encountered by the
engineers can be solved by the standard flow
equations. Typical example is the Bernoulli
equation.
4. What is Bernoulli's principle?
• Bernoulli's principle is a seemingly counterintuitive
statement about how the speed of a fluid relates to
the pressure of the fluid. Many people feel like
Bernoulli's principle shouldn't be correct, but this
might be due to a misunderstanding about what
Bernoulli's principle actually says. Bernoulli's
principle states the following,
• Bernoulli's principle: Within a horizontal flow of
fluid, points of higher fluid speed will have less
pressure than points of slower fluid speed.
5. How can you derive Bernoulli's principle?
• Incompressible fluids have to speed up when they reach
a narrow constricted section in order to maintain a
constant volume flow rate. This is why a narrow nozzle
on a hose causes water to speed up. But something
might be bothering you about this phenomenon. If the
water is speeding up at a constriction, it's also gaining
kinetic energy
• The only way to give something kinetic energy is to do
work on it. This is expressed by the work energy
principle.
6. Bernoulli equation Conti…
Wexternal = Δk = mvf
2
- mvi
2
So if a portion of fluid is speeding up, something
external to that portion of fluid must be doing work
on it. What force is causing work to be done on the
fluid? Well, in most real world systems there are lots
of dissipative forces that could be doing negative
work, but we're going to assume for the sake of
simplicity that these viscous forces are negligible and
we have a nice continuous and perfectly laminar
(streamline) flow.
7. • Laminar (streamline) flow means that the fluid flows in parallel
layers without crossing paths. In laminar streamline flow there is
no swirling or vortices in the fluid.
• Consider the diagram below which shows water flowing
along streamlines from left to right. As the outlined
volume of water enters the constricted region it speeds
up. The force from pressure P_1P1
P, start subscript, 1,
end subscript on the left side of the shaded water pushes
to the right and does positive work since it pushes in the
same direction as the motion of the shaded fluid. The
force from pressure P_2P2
P, start subscript, 2, end
subscript on the right side of the shaded fluid pushes to
the left and does negative work since it pushes in the
opposite direction as the motion of the shaded fluid.
9. We know that the water must speed up (due to the continuity
equation) and therefore have a net positive amount of work
done on it. So the work done by the force from pressure on
the left side must be larger than the amount of negative work
done by the force from pressure on the right side. This means
that the pressure on the wider/slower side P1 has to be larger
than the pressure on the narrow/faster side P2.
This inverse relationship between the pressure and speed at a
point in a fluid is called Bernoulli's principle.
Bernoulli's principle: At points along a horizontal streamline,
higher pressure regions have lower fluid speed and lower
pressure regions have higher fluid speed.
10. • The idea that regions where the fluid is
moving fast will have lower pressure can seem
strange. Surely, a fast moving fluid that strikes
you must apply more pressure to your body
than a slow moving fluid, right? Yes, that is
right. But we're talking about two different
pressures now. The pressure that Bernoulli's
principle is referring to is the internal fluid
pressure that would be exerted in all
directions during the flow, including on the
sides of the pipe. This is different from the
pressure a fluid will exert on you if you get in
the way of it and stop its motion.
11. • Note that Bernoulli's principle does not say that a fast
moving fluid can't have significantly high pressures. It
just says that the pressure in a slower region of that
same flowing system must have even larger pressure
than the faster moving region.
What is Bernoulli's equation?
• Bernoulli's equation is essentially a more general and
mathematical form of Bernoulli's principle that also
takes into account changes in gravitational potential
energy. let's take a look at Bernoulli's equation and get
a feel for what it says and how one would go about
using it.
12. • Bernoulli's equation relates the pressure, speed, and height of
any two points (1 and 2) in a steady streamline flowing fluid of
density ρ. Bernoulli's equation is usually written as follows,
P1 + 1/2℮v + ℮gh1 = P2 + 1/2℮v + ℮gh2
The variables P1. v1, h1 refer to the pressure, speed, and height
of the fluid at point 1, whereas the variables P2. V2, h2 refer to
the pressure, speed, and height of the fluid at point 2 as seen
in the diagram below. The diagram below shows one
particular choice of two points (1 and 2) in the fluid, but
Bernoulli's equation will hold for any two points in the fluid.