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material for underground oxygen piping

material for underground oxygen piping

(OP)
Need to install a 2" underground oxygen pipeline. Pressure is 125 psi. The aboveground piping is SS304. Consulting engineer is recommending SS316 with an external coating. Is the coating required? Is cathodic protection required? If anyone has experience with a similar installation, advice would be appreciated. A review of CGA 4.5.1 was inconclusive.

RE: material for underground oxygen piping

Is this a medical oxygen system?  If not, maybe this helps.

Quote:


(INDUSTRIAL) OXYGEN PIPELINE SYSTEMS
IGC Doc 13/02/E
GLOBALLY HARMONISED DOCUMENT
Replaces Doc 13/82
EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL GASES ASSOCIATION

4.5.1 Underground piping systems
Piping should be of all welded construction in accordance with a specification and inspection code
such as API 1104 (Appendix G, reference 6.5) or any other recognized code. Underground piping
must be externally coated to an approved specification, to protect against soil corrosion. Reference to
current, internationally accepted, coatings standards and specifications is recommended (see
Appendix G, references 6.17 to 6.20)
Underground piping should be adequately buried to protect it from frost, casual surface construction,
shifting due to unstable soil, back fill damage to the external surface of pipe or the coating, and
aboveground loads such as vehicles or equipment moving over the path of the pipeline. Pipe casings
or load shields, if required by special agencies, should be installed at railroad or road crossings or
where unusual aboveground loading can occur. Casings or sleeves require careful consideration and
special measures to avoid cathodic protection problems and arcing, which can be caused due to an
electrical connection forming between the sleeve and carrier pipe due to settlement, etc. In general
the use of metallic casings or sleeves is to be avoided wherever possible.
Underground oxygen piping is particularly vulnerable to damage by lightning strikes or ground fault
conditions, which may ignite the pipe material. Electrical continuity between underground oxygen
piping and above ground piping, or other metal structures, should be avoided if possible. Due to the
possibility of leaks and risk of enriched atmosphere it is preferable to have no flanged joints
underground either buried or in pits.

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"What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know, its what we know for sure" - Mark Twain

RE: material for underground oxygen piping

lets see, there are 100's of miles of buried O2 lines along the gulf coast and they are all carbon steel coated and under CP.

RE: material for underground oxygen piping

Is that carbon steel coated or coated carbon steel? smile

Also not medical service I presume.

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"What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know, its what we know for sure" - Mark Twain

RE: material for underground oxygen piping

ASTM A 106-B Pipe is common for OSBL.  Search the web for AIGA 005/04, 012/04; EIGA 13/02/E, 33/97/E, 15/00/E and a training powerpoint package EIGA 12/05.  Read them.

Isolation valves have monel trim.  Above ground piping is monel after impingments with monel control valves.

RE: material for underground oxygen piping

carbon stee, coated and under CP.  The lines are industrial O2 and I believe there are customers that make medical grade out of it too.

RE: material for underground oxygen piping

Yes, the coating is required.  If you do go with stainless steel, the decision to apply CP should be made by a competent CP professional after a study of the coating type, risk of interference, and other normal CP considerations.

Steve Jones
Materials & Corrosion Engineer
http://www.pdo.co.om/pdoweb/

RE: material for underground oxygen piping

(OP)
Not medical. It is used for a pulse detonation boiler cleaning system.

RE: material for underground oxygen piping

2
karen....

I suggest that you consider the US guidelines before the European equivalents.

The NFPA has a guideline (NFPA-50) that addresses industrial bulk oxygen systems.

http://www.buildersbook.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Store_Code=bbi&Screen=PROD&;Product_Code=NFPA50

Underground piping, as I recall, is allowed, I suggest that you consider Sched 80, carbon steel (A106 -Grade B) with a robust coating.

Please let us know about your final design decision, particularly with regard to material selection and coatings

Regards

-MJC

   

RE: material for underground oxygen piping

[color gray]We don't really know where Karen's system is located.[gray] But if it is in the US, you probably have to look at this one.

Title 49--Transportation ... PART 192--TRANSPORTATION OF NATURAL AND OTHER GAS BY PIPELINE: MINIMUM FEDERAL SAFETY STANDARDS  * That's the law *  But you will find no difference between it and the quoted sections of the EU standard above.

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RE: material for underground oxygen piping

Anybody ever notice.......

Has anybody ever noticed that whenever "Big Inch" submits a response to a question, he gets either two or three stars (always the same number) to each and every response that he makes within that thread ?

How can that occur so consistantly..?


-MJC

   

RE: material for underground oxygen piping

MJCronin,
It isn't a conspiricy it is the way that eng-tips.com works.  The system doesn't keep up with which post got stars so it applies the stars to every post by the person in the thread.

It's just more noticible with BigInch because he gets so many stars (maybe there is a conspiricy.

BigInch,
Do you know what went wrong with your formatting above?  The step to turn it off should have been "/color" not "/gray" as in This text should be red (gray doesn't show up on the grey posts)

David

RE: material for underground oxygen piping

The system keeps up with the star count for everybody.  Check your user profile or the profiles of any member and it shows how many stars you've reveived, given and for which catagory too.

I have a secret method for collecting
... practical answers.

... and I give a lot of stars, so maybe what goes around, comes around.


Yes zdas, thanks.  I use formatted text on a semiregular basis, but sometimes I copy the leading attribute, get in a hurry, and then paste the same attribute for the trailing attribute forgetting to put the stroke before it.

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"What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know, its what we know for sure" - Mark Twain

RE: material for underground oxygen piping

Perhaps I should setup multiple logon ID's so that I can give myself stars too.

RE: material for underground oxygen piping

JL Seagull

You don't need a separate login ID to give yourself a star.  If you really feel you need a star, just go back in a thread and click on the link.  It's completely anonymous.  

I don't think that's how most people get their stars though.

 

Patricia Lougheed

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RE: material for underground oxygen piping

(OP)
So, stars aside, I think I will be going with A106 coated with fusion bonded epoxy. This pipe will still need to be oxygen cleaned and I am talking to vendors regarding this. Thanks for all of your help.

RE: material for underground oxygen piping

vpl,

How do you do that?  When I go back in any thread, my posts do not show a "Thank vpl for this valuable post".

Seagull,

Nor do I have another ID.  Good idea though.  But, what for?  Stars don't get you anything other than stars.  I've yet to make un centavo from any star collected, or for contacts made through Eng-tips either, for that matter.

The method is simple.  Practical answers, like I gave in this one, a quote from the code, not a link to some publisher, an article resale house that will sell you one for $25 that you can find for free if you look hard, not to buy some code or a book, or a reference to a 25 year old magazine article that not even the poster has a copy of.

Just face it.  I have a following! rockband
 

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"What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know, its what we know for sure" - Mark Twain

RE: material for underground oxygen piping

Try pages 180 - 183 of this book

There are specific recommendations for the isolation of UG O2 systems from other piping (and for damn good reason...)

http://books.google.com/books?id=8erDL_DnsgAC&pg=PA181&lpg=PA181&dq=underground+oxygen+piping&source=web&ots=UXPFJ4EQ5f&sig=nncoKR_hLNAwbiiLfAUKj61_sOU&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&;ct=result

Karen.... I also strongly suggest the use of a Schedule 80 piping system

Regards

-MJC

   

RE: material for underground oxygen piping

MJC,

Great reference!  

(See I gave you a star.)

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"What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know, its what we know for sure" - Mark Twain

RE: material for underground oxygen piping

NOW.... you got more than me. smile

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"What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know, its what we know for sure" - Mark Twain

RE: material for underground oxygen piping

(OP)
MJ

Thank you for the reference. This is essentially the verbiage in the CGA code that sparked my initial question. I have found an in house expert that can do CP design and I have also found a suitable coating. It appears that carbon steel pipe (schedule 80) will be suitable because my velocity is low enough that I don't have to worry about ADBRE. So now I need to find a vendor that supplies carbon steel pipe - oxygen cleaned and coated. Any ideas?

RE: material for underground oxygen piping

(OP)
Anyone ever used copper for this application. It appears to be readily available.

RE: material for underground oxygen piping

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The day they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches
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RE: material for underground oxygen piping

(OP)
You people don't have enough work to do.

RE: material for underground oxygen piping

Karen

Returning to your questions (and thanks for trying to keep us on track)

While copper may be readily available, it is also rather expensive.  Copper wire has been known to "walk" offsite with some frequency and there have even been thieves who have electrocuted themselves trying to steal energized copper wire.  This could cause you a number of problems in trying to maintain your pipeline.

Additionally, given its excellent electrical conductivity (which is why it is used for wiring), I don't think it would be a good choice for carrying oxygen.





 

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RE: material for underground oxygen piping

(OP)
Thanks, vpl.

My oxygen supplier uses copper encased in a PVC jacket with foam insulation blown in for all buried lines. Expensive, but I know it will work. Copper is actually the first choice in oxygen piping because it has no carbon and therefore adiabatic heat of recompression is not a concern.

As to theft, this is private property and quite secured so it is not a concern.  

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