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Steam Pipe Heat Loss Through Support Shoe

Steam Pipe Heat Loss Through Support Shoe

Steam Pipe Heat Loss Through Support Shoe

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Would appreciate source for calculating the heat loss through a pipe shoe (direct steel from pipe to support frame) from an insulated pipe.
Support shoe is a Tee, Structural W, and fabricated shape.

RE: Steam Pipe Heat Loss Through Support Shoe

Have a look at Pipemill ..... www.pipemill.com, as advertised at the top of this page. It contains many programs, one being support shoe heat transfer prediction for three shoe configurations.
  

RE: Steam Pipe Heat Loss Through Support Shoe

Before anyone gets too emotional about "Heat Loss Calculations for Pipe Shoes" there should be a rational consideration for the type of insulation (Hot vs Cold) and all areas and types of heat loss.

Hot Insulation - Here a pipe shoe, a "Dummy" pipe support or any Trunnion type of extension welded directly to the pipe will provide a path for (conduction) heat transfer and loss, but this is very small when compared to other items. Items that are not insulated and provide a greater surface area and radiant heat loss include all the flanges and the valve bodies.


Cold Insulation - Here all areas are insulated.  This includes valve bodies.  Pipe supports are normally isolated from direct contact with the containment pipe by a non heat conductive material or as in the case of a direct welded "Dummy" support the Insulation would be extended on the Dummy for a distance of 5 times the insulation thickness.   

RE: Steam Pipe Heat Loss Through Support Shoe

Boze (Mechanical)

Detail design had been posted on Eng-tips.com reference to Gulf Publication sloution

Do a Detail Search

 

RE: Steam Pipe Heat Loss Through Support Shoe

Has the technical Heat Transfer Piping and Pipe Shoe

Reference Please look:

Mechanical Design of Process Systems Volume 1, Piping and Pressure Vessels, A Keith Escoe


Mechanical Design of Process Systems Volume 2,  Shell-and –tube Heat Exchangers rotating Equipment – Bins, Silos, Stacks, A Keith Escoe
 

RE: Steam Pipe Heat Loss Through Support Shoe

Note to LSThill .... the Escoe method is the basis of the shoe heat transfer routine in Pipemill software.

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