Submerged Pipeline weight
Submerged Pipeline weight
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Hey guys,
I'm trying to find the submerged weight of a pipeline and need to include the internal coating, the anti corrosion coating, the insulation and concrete coating.
Does anyone have an equation for this please?
Cheers
I'm trying to find the submerged weight of a pipeline and need to include the internal coating, the anti corrosion coating, the insulation and concrete coating.
Does anyone have an equation for this please?
Cheers





RE: Submerged Pipeline weight
Are you sure you should be doing this problem?
Hopefully your answer will be greater than zero or the pipe will float.
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RE: Submerged Pipeline weight
Footnote : In some situations of oil/gas in water, it is worth getting thicker pipe to reduce bouyancy.
RE: Submerged Pipeline weight
RE: Submerged Pipeline weight
My question is why would the submerged weight be important to you since there are a more important factors to figure out such as tension and bending stress when laying or raising the pipeline from a barge or to determine the anchoring details size when the pipeline becomes buoyant or displaced by currents.
RE: Submerged Pipeline weight
I expand that to be "air at atmospheric pressure". I also add a big safety factor (i.e., if my pipe full of unpressurized air is less than 4 times the weight of the displaced water I add weights to the pipe). I had one float and don't really want to repeat that experience.
David
RE: Submerged Pipeline weight
The pipeline would initially contain water for the hydrotest of the pipe and eventually gontain oil or gas.
The submergred weight is needed for a design tool that calculates the wall thickness required. During the analysis of the desired WT, the submerged weight is found to go on to provide information needed to find the Bending Moment for operation/hydrotest.
RE: Submerged Pipeline weight
Didn't you see the hazards of "underestimating" the buoyancy of a submerged pipe the previous engineers just wrote for you? Then you come back commenting about a theoretical case of a computer-designing the pipe wall thickness based a theorectical bending stress based on (??) criteria for water-filled pipe undergoing a hydro test?
The earlier comments showed that submerged pipes may require extra-thick walls just to provide enough weight to prevent bouyancy problems for an air-filled pipe being laid through the liquid/river water/mud/muck. Given that, why would you assume that the water-filled hydrostatic condition was a limiting stress case for pipe wall design?
RE: Submerged Pipeline weight
Make sure that the Specific Gravity is equal or higher than 1.1 based on DNV-OS-F101, Oct 2010. This is because the specific gravity is depends on the submerged weight of the pipeline for each case.
Thanks.