PROCESS PIPING DESIGN HANDBOOK

Volume One The Fundamentals of Piping Design

Drafting and Design Methods for Process Applications

Peter Smith

Gulf Publishing Company Houston, Texas

Process Piping Design Handbook Volume One: The Fundamentals of Piping Design Copyright 0 2007 by Gulf Publishing Company, Houston, Texas. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Smith, Peter Process piping design handbook, volume one:: the fundamentals of piping design / Peter Smith. v. cm. - (Process piping design series; I) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN- 13: 978- 1-933762-04-3 (v. I : acid-free paper) ISBN- I 0 1-933762-04-7 (v. I: acid-free paper) I. Pipelines-Design and construction. 2. Piping-Design and construction. 3. Piping-Computer-aided design. 4. Petroleum refineries-Equipment and supplies. 1. Title. TA660.PSSS65 2007 62 I .8'672-d~22 2006038256

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