Hydro power plant piping layout design career outlook
Hydro power plant piping layout design career outlook
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I am working on hydro power plant piping layout design. i have worked exp on two projects ,what are the opportunities in this field, can any suggest about this.
Thank you, Vijay
Thank you, Vijay





RE: Hydro power plant piping layout design career outlook
RE: Hydro power plant piping layout design career outlook
I would guess that there is not a lot of piping in a hydro power plant. There may be some lube-oil piping and cooling water piping, but other than that I can't think of much more. I have excluded the penstocks form this discussion since these would not normally be designed by a "piping designer".
A thermal power plant is a different story (ie lotsa piping in one of those suckers).
GG
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
RE: Hydro power plant piping layout design career outlook
RE: Hydro power plant piping layout design career outlook
A few bits of information will have to be extracted or deduced from representative old drawings, or from peers in that specialty. E.g. paper mill pipes carrying paper stock need to be ground smooth inside, relatively free of crevices where microbes can hide, and self-draining as much as possible.
Aside from stuff like that, pipes are pipes, and the details of a particular plant will mostly be spelled out in excruciating detail in a thick specification and a set of company standards, which you will end up memorizing, whether you want to or not.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: Hydro power plant piping layout design career outlook
Also, there is a lot of piping in the larger hydro plants, even the 50MW plants. Good luck.