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Piping routing (fittings)
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Piping routing (fittings)

Piping routing (fittings)

(OP)

Dear all,

I know that is not possible to weld two bend to each other (without intermidiate pipe). But would be posible to weld each other (without intermediate pipe) bend/tee, tee/tee, bend/valve,...

Thanks in advance

RE: Piping routing (fittings)

Oh but you can. It is possible to weld too ells together. Ends of ells are not allowed any more ovality than a pipe, so if you can weld a pipe to it, then you could also weld another ell to it.

"People will work for you with blood and sweat and tears if they work for what they believe in......" - Simon Sinek

RE: Piping routing (fittings)

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BigInch is absolutely correct.
Here is more:
Fitting-to-Fitting
By James O. Pennock and Dave Murphy
The following statement was made about welding two fittings directly to each other. This situation also applies to a fitting welded to a weld-neck flange or two weld-neck flanges welded together.
“Fitting to fitting welding is not permissible; a pipe shall be (placed) between fittings.”

This is an example of someone giving wrong information or wrongly interpreted information that has gotten started by some inexperienced teachers/instructors in the past few years.

This specific statement is totally incorrect when applied to 3” (80mm) and larger butt-weld fittings. Any butt-weld fitting or weld-neck flange can be directly welded to any other butt-weld fitting or weld neck flange without the need for any extra piece of pipe (Pup piece) between them. It is just a butt-weld and if I cannot make a butt-weld between these two round, beveled-end, schedule 40 carbon steel (fitting) objects what if I need to join two other round, beveled-end, schedule 40 carbon steel pipes. What do I put between these two pipe objects? Yes! It does sound a bit stupid.

For butt-weld fittings the only exception to this is; when there is an overall dimension requirement that is greater than the combined total dimensions of the two fittings.

The only fittings that cannot be connected directly to each other are screwed or socket-welded elbow and Tee fittings. Screwed and Socket-welded assemblies do require pipe, a pipe nipple or a swedge nipple between these fittings.

I suspect that someone, somewhere was listening to instructions about the make-up of piping assemblies for 2” (50mm) and smaller screwed or socket weld piping and then mistakenly applied the instruction to all piping including large-bore butt-weld piping.

This is not the first time I have seen this. Over the years I have gotten many sketches via E-mail asking about some certain aspect of a piping layout. Some of these sketches have shown this same faulty piping error. One such case showed a common control valve station (manifold) which had 11 (eleven) extra and unnecessary “Pup” pieces where butt-weld fittings could have and should have been welded together. It was a waste of money.

When this is done at a point where it is not required, it does nothing to improve the function of the pipe configuration. The only thing it does do is add cost to the job. The added cost comes from both a direct and an indirect factor.
The direct cost includes:
• the cost of the pipe
• the cost of cutting the pipe and prepping the ends for welding
• the cost welding
• the cost of extra NDE
• the potential cost of a bad weld discovered during hydrotest that needs to be cut-out and re-welded.
• the cost of additional insulation and heat losses.
• the cost of adding another potential leak point even if the weld passes initial NDE and hydro.

The indirect cost includes:
• the cost of the added space required for a complex piping configuration when multiple pieces of “pipe” (Pup pieces) are added between every fitting to fitting make-up.

I strongly urge all who read this,
o if you are doing this then STOP! Ask yourself, Why am I doing this?
o If you know pipers who are doing this then tell them to STOP! Ask them why are they doing this?

Why should I not do this? Because it is amateurish, wasteful and improper piping.

prognosis: Lead or Lag

RE: Piping routing (fittings)

Barandiaran,
There is not enough information given to understand or justify what the drawing is trying to say.
Where did this drawing come from?
Is there any explanation somewhere else in the text before or after this drawing?

Just looking at a drawing and making assumptions about it without any explanation is an error you do not want to make.

prognosis: Lead or Lag

RE: Piping routing (fittings)

(OP)
Dear Pennpiper,

It is the manual of the company I worked.

There is no more explanation.

RE: Piping routing (fittings)

It may not be a favored practice, because if you have to cut out a bad weld, you've buggered up 2 fittings.
That's the only reason it may be prohibited by some companies.
But it CAN be done.

"People will work for you with blood and sweat and tears if they work for what they believe in......" - Simon Sinek

RE: Piping routing (fittings)

I think it's a proscription of cold bending.
The bending machine needs a straight lenght for clamping.
Ask maintenance or engineering dept. of your company.

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