Introduction of Piping Industrial

Piping is a indispendable facilities that exist in every industry such as offshore production unit ,factory ,plants , housing area , ship and so on . The attend of piping is to transmit the fluids or gas from a destination to the others location likes the refinery plants needs the help of piping to carry the crude oil to reach the refinery chamber , the offshore production units required piping to supply the water to heat exchanger and the heavy industrial plant compulsory require firewater system to perform as fire fighting in the case of plant inflamed by fire.

Inasmuch as piping is a vital facilities that occupied in every industrial , it is one of the reason why the piping engineering is remain the high demand in the market as well as the piping engineer. Piping Enginneering basically can categoried into 5 core depatment such as procurement ,design & engineering, pipe stress analysis , production&construction , and lastly is commissioning & maintainence. In order to complete a project perfectly and within the scheduled deadline as well as budget , each the department must have good relationship and collaboration.Either one of the department is playing very important role and none of them can be srewed up or delayed during the project is going on .

Procurement department duty as a buyer or purchaser for the materials and selection of the pipe vendors, this position holding relatively high responsible and required sophisticated knowledge in engineering and good marketing skills. Design & engineering generally is a department to design the piping routing, produce the engineering drawing likes isosmetric drawing , PID , general arragement drawing and overview planning the project flow .Due to the help of PDS or PDMS , the process has been simplify and more precision yet cost effective . Subsequently,Pipe stress department is a room of auditing which mean that pipe stress group duty will verify the flexiblity of the piping system, materials usage , equipments usage , expansion bellow which designed by piping designer and also provide solution to the inflexiblity or potential high stress piping system. Stress engineer is high responsible for any failure occur due to inflexiblity or insufficient pipe support .

Production & constuction will be the department to produce and fabricate the pipe as well as including the spools erection. Produce in the sense that plain pipe milled or supplied from vendors which purchase from procurement department , thereafter fabrication will take placed when the attend of the plain pipe ,the fabrication prcoess is making the spools according to the IFC drawing that provided by engineering disciple.For metallic piping , welding will take place to each joint and must adhere stricty to the welding procedure specification, then after NDT test carry out for each joint to ensure the quality . While for FRP piping ,the fabricated pipe will send to the inhouse for pressuried test with video recorded as envident thenafter the pipe can be ready for delivery to site installation.

The commionsioning is the department that perform hydrotest and leakage check , generally the pipe will be pressuried up to 1.5 times the design pressure . This process will begin when the piping had complete erected and it is the final stage of work for entire project. Lastly, maintenence will be schedule to be done by a cycle of period or if it is requested from site.