Piping Systems

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Moving Hot Fluids Through Solar Troughs

Designers have many options available to connect high-temperature fluid loop piping with moving collectors that track the sun in large-scale, parabolic trough, solar thermal power plants. The “quality” of these connections, mainly relating to reliability, lifetime, and maintainability, has improved with better hardware and new configurations, and larger trough designs are testing new applications of traditional technologies.

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New Rules for New <br>Copper Alloys

New Rules for New Copper Alloys

A federal law to further reduce the amount of lead in drinking water has manufacturers of copper plumbing fittings replacing their products with ones manufactured with new copper alloys.

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Coping with Pipe Fatigue

Coping with Pipe Fatigue

Ray Kelm, mechanical engineer and owner of Friendswood, Texas-based Kelm Engineering, discusses calculation of pipe dynamics, pipe fatigue consequences, and opportunities from reciprocating pumps. Learn the opportunities in an overlooked area that can lead to solid business.

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Pressure Vessels and Piping Division (PVP)

Provide a forum to the engineering and scientific communities to promote, share and disseminate state-of-the-art pressure technologies, relating to the power, petrochemical and process industries, and sustainable and alternative energies.

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Piping Systems are closed tubular arrangements that move gases, liquids, and solids (as slurries) through industrial processes (especially in refining); to users (distribution of natural gas, oil, and water); and from users back to treatment (sewage). Piping systems include compressors and pumps to keep material moving, valves to control and direct flows, and sensors to track volumes/deliveries. Engineering concerns in piping systems are materials, safety, security, and seismic risks.