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    Elbow Standard

    Maybe the elbow is from Russia and was built to GOST dimensions.
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    Article on calculation on friction factor

    Hans Hendrik, Chemical Engineering Magazine has published a book on piping engineering containing numerous interesting articles from the 70-ties. You will find your requested article on pages 94 and 95 of this book: Process Piping Systems (Chemical Engineering) Hardcover: 482 pages Publisher...
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    Pressure Rating for Dual Cert. Flange (304/304L)?

    jproj See also Interpretation 2-40 to ASME B16.5: http://cstools.asme.org/csconnect/pdf/CommitteeFiles/28086.pdf
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    Piping Materials Guide

    "Piping Materials Guide" by Peter Smith 1st Edition, 2005 The back cover calls it "the only book of its kind on the market." Well..., I was not impressed, though. Ever since I have read the book open-eyed for the first time I have wanted start a thread compiling the surprisingly high number...
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    Welding of slip-on flanges

    I am neither questioning that double-welding of slip-on flanges is a good and recommended practice, nor is it my intention to encourage anybody to single-weld slip-on flanges. However, mbc2009 is wrong in stating that double-welding was a general mandatory requirement by all piping codes. e.g...
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    Water weight of elbow

    guys, do we really need fancy computer programs to determine the volume of a quarter donut? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torus ... o tempora, o mores... ;-)
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    model review

    Hi essenwood, check this link for further inspiration on items to be reviewed: http://www.red-bag.com/jcms/index.php/design-guides/46-design-guides/356-bn-dg-c12-checking-a-3d-pds-piping-model-and-definition-of-percentage-completion
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    Total pipe length in a piping isometric drawing

    More wild guesses: The material listed in the BOM might include same extra straight pipe length to fabricate - wear pads for sliding supports, - reinforcing pads for branches, - trunnions for pipe supports, - dummy supports, - mitered elbows, - field bends (small bore piping), - spool...
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    Welding of tread joints

    BJaffa, provided the work you are going to perform is to seal weld a threaded joint on a piping system the code provision you are looking for is: ASME B31.3 (2006) Par. 328.5.3 Seal welds shall cover all exposed threads or respectively ASME B31.1 (2004) Par. 127.4.5 Where seal welding of...
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    boiler commissioning publication

    VinW, your description sound like Guideline VBG-R 513 e "Internal Cleaning of Water-Tube Steam Generating Plants and Associated Pipework" published by VGB PowerTech e.V. www.vgb.org obtainable from http://www.vgb.org/shop/product_info.php/products_id/70
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    weldolet and hot tapping

    Reading this thread I had a feeling that it may just not be good enough to ask whether the branch connection will be adequately designed once the tie-in is done. You also have to find a safe way to get there. Is everybody in this forum really convinced that a welder assigned to the job of...
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    Tilting Disc Check vs Swing Check Valve

    What I hate most about tilting disc check valves is the restricted accessibility for maintentance. The body of a swing check valve typically is equipped with a separate flanged cover plate. This allows you to access the flapper for maintenance or to remove the flapper for line testing and...
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    Do you Know anyone the Uni EN 13480- part three?

    Airman23, According to the glossary of Appendix D (see section D.3 of EN 13480-3) "B" represents the inner diameter of the flange. This interpretation fits both to the illustrations in Appendix D and also to the unit given (i.e. mm). "k" appears to be an empirical factor to consider the flange...
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    Do you Know anyone the Uni EN 13480- part three?

    Airman23 Probably it would be helpful to quote the Section No. or Equation No. you are having trouble with. My german version of EN 13480-3 does not mention term "k" on its page 209, although contents generally should be equal.
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    WOG valves

    Degas, I agree with Ashereng, there is no relation between ANSI and WOG. See also MSS-SP 25 "Standard Marking Systems for Valves, Fittings, Flanges and Unions", which is one of the few standards explaining the meaning of "WOG". Quote from Par. 4.1.3. ( in my 1998 ed.): The Rating Designation...
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