Study Guide

Objective

The student knows the importance of pipe classes and related standards at different stages of plant design.

The student is familiar with effective ways to carry out pipeline contract surveys and the issues to be considered in procurement. The student knows the issues to be considered in the dimensioning, design and installation of piping and equipment insulation.

The student becomes acquainted with modern geometric modeling and visualization tools used in factory design.

The student knows the methods of process risk management during the planning phase.

Content

1. Pipeline modification work
2. Pipeline contracting and inspections
3. Pipe classes
4. Risk management during planning
5. New modeling and visualization systems and data processing methods.
6. Instrumentation and automation in plant design
7. Industrial insulation
8. Assignments with CAD software.

Prerequisites

Plant Design basics
Piping design

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

The student is able to define and describe the concepts and phenomena included in the course in a qualitative way and to compute straightforward problems.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

The student is able to understand and define or describe the concepts and phenomena discussed in the course in his own words; he also knows how to explain the origin and meaning of related equations and to critically evaluate the solutions obtained when solving related problems.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

The student is able to characterize and model phenomena discussed in the course on the basis of reasonable assumptions, as well as to analyze, evaluate and modify solutions for related problems and the underlying model when needed.