Basic Idea and Principal Element of Pressure Piping

In our everyday living, we have all ever seen all kinds of pipes employed for transporting many medium out of industrial function or living aim. A number of them are stress piping. Pressure Piping  refers to tubular equipment with nominal diameter not larger than 25mm which might be employed for transporting gas or liquid by taking use of certain pressure. The application variety is regulated amongst gas, liquefied gas, steam medium with highest operating pressure not greater or equal to 0.1MPa or combustible, explosive, toxic or erosive liquid medium whose functioning temperature is higher or equal to regular boiling point. That's to say, currently so named ‘Pressure Pipes' not only mean that interior or external pipes sustain the stress but medium transported interior is ‘gas, liquefied gas and steam' or ‘fire blast, toxic or erosive liquid'.

Pipes transportation is one of five major transportation industries paralleled by railway, highway, waterway and aviation. As a type of special transportation equipment, pipes are widely applied in industries like chemical industry, petrochemical, petroleum, electric power, light industry and metallurgy. In cities and towns, it is applied in fuel gas, heat and water supply as well as water drainage. With the development of social economy, pipes function is more obvious and is viewed as ‘factory blood vessel'. At the same time, the problems caused by it are also increasing. In order to prevent and reduce incidents and guarantee lives and properties security, major industrial countries covering America, Japan and Germany all list Pressure Piping  as the special gear containing many unsafe factors. They legislate to practice security supervision on it.

Pressure Pipes are one part of the pipelines. Pipeline is the stress fitting assembly composed of pipes such as Composite Pipes, pipe fittings some may be black pipe fittings, flange, bolt, gasket, valve and other components or pressure parts and supporting parts. A pipeline system, in order to fulfill functions like liquid transportation, allocation, blending, separation, discharge, measure and fluid flowing control, must connect with corresponding dynamic gear, reaction gear, storage gear, separation gear, heat exchange equipment and control gear so as to develop into a system, ensuring liquid in pipes are of particular stress, temperature and flow. As a result, it finishes designed and scheduled tasks.

Pressure Pipes system refers to the system composed of pipe element, pipe supporter, security protection equipment and auxiliary devices. Here rubber end caps and pipe end caps all belong to pipe element. Frequently noticed Pressure Pipes mainly include pipes, pipe fittings, flange, valve, compensator, flame arrester, sealing element, supports and hangers. Security protection device refers to over-temperature and ultra-pressure controlling device and warning device such as security valve, pressure gage, rupture disc and emergency cutting valve. The auxiliary device mainly means pipeline oriented device, support post, cathodic protector of stress pipes. They may be cathodic protecting device, compressor station, pump station, valve station, pressure adjusting station and supervision system.