page_title: Piping
section_title: Standards
hierarchical_section_title: Piping / Standards
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Stacking of a connected pipeline for transportation of oil products
context_page_description: Within industry, piping is a system of pipes used to convey fluids from one location to another. The engineering discipline of piping design studies the efficient transport of fluid.
  Industrial process piping can be manufactured from wood, fiberglass, glass, steel, aluminum, plastic, copper, and concrete. The in-line components, known as fittings, valves, and other devices, typically sense and control the pressure, flow rate and temperature of the transmitted fluid, and usually are included in the field of piping design, though the sensors and automatic controlling devices may alternatively be treated as part of instrumentation and control design. Piping systems are documented in piping and instrumentation diagrams. If necessary, pipes can be cleaned by the tube cleaning process.
  Piping sometimes refers to piping design, the detailed specification of the physical piping layout within a process plant or commercial building. In earlier days, this was sometimes called drafting, technical drawing, engineering drawing, and design, but is today commonly performed by designers that have learned to use automated computer-aided drawing or computer-aided design software.
context_section_description: There are certain standard codes that need to be followed while designing or manufacturing any piping system. Organizations that promulgate piping standards include:
  ASME - The American Society of Mechanical Engineers - B31 series
  ASME B31.1 Power piping (steam piping etc.)
  ASME B31.3 Process piping
  ASME B31.4 Pipeline Transportation Systems for Liquid Hydrocarbons and Other Liquids and oil and gas
  ASME B31.5 Refrigeration piping and heat transfer components
  ASME B31.8 Gas transmission and distribution piping systems
  ASME B31.9 Building services piping
  ASME B31.11 Slurry Transportation Piping Systems (Withdrawn, Superseded by B31.4)
  ASME B31.12 Hydrogen Piping and Pipelines
  ASTM - American Society for Testing and Materials
  ASTM A252 Standard Specification for Welded and Seamless Steel Pipe Piles
  API - American Petroleum Institute
  API 5L Petroleum and natural gas industries—Steel pipe for pipeline transportation systems
  CWB - Canadian Welding Bureau
  EN 13480 - European metallic industrial piping code
  EN 13480-1 Metallic industrial piping - Part 1: General
  EN 13480-2 Metallic industrial piping - Part 2: Materials
  EN 13480-3 Metallic industrial piping - Part 3: Design and calculation
  EN 13480-4 Metallic industrial piping - Part 4: Fabrication and installation
  EN 13480-5 Metallic industrial piping - Part 5: Inspection and testing
  EN 13480-6 Metallic industrial piping - Part 6: Additional requirements for buried piping
  PD TR 13480-7 Metallic industrial piping - Part 7: Guidance on the use of conformity assessment procedures
  EN 13480-8 Metallic industrial piping - Part 8: Additional requirements for aluminium and aluminium alloy piping
  GOST, RD, SNiP, SP - Russian piping codes
  RD 10-249 Power Piping
  GOST 32388 Process Piping, HDPE Piping
  SNiP 2.05.06-85 & SP 36.13330.2012 Gas and Oil transmission piping systems
  EN 1993-4-3 Eurocode 3 — Design of steel structures - Part 4-3: Pipelines
  AWS - American Welding Society
  AWWA - American Water Works Association
  MSS – Manufacturers' Standardization Society
  ANSI - American National Standards Institute
  NFPA - National Fire Protection Association
  EJMA - Expansion Joint Manufacturers Association
  Intro to pipe stress  - https://web.archive.org/web/20161008161619/http://oakridgebellows.com/metal-expansion-joints/metal-expansion-joints-in-one-minute/part-1-thermal-growth%26#x20;(one minute)
caption: Stacking of a connected pipeline for transportation of oil products
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