Pipeline Design and Construction: A Practical Approach, by M. Mohitpour, H. Golshan, and A. Murray, is a new book from ASME Press. It offers straightforward, practical techniques for pipeline design and construction, making it an ideal professional reference, training tool, or comprehensive text for specialized university courses.

The authors present the various elements that make up a single-phase liquid and gas pipeline system, including how to design, construct, commission, and assess pipelines and related facilities. They discuss gas and liquid transmission, compression, pumps, protection and integrity, procurement services, and management of pipeline projects. More complex specialty fluids are also covered, including CO2, H2, slurry and multi-products. Where possible, the authors provide mathematical models and detailed case studies along with application-oriented examples with sketches and descriptions of systems. References and bibliographic guides are provided for additional information and literature.
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Clarion Technical Conferences, Houston, TX USA, November 2001.

Abstract: Fitness for service assessment is performed to make sure that process plant equipment, such as pressure vessels, piping, and tanks, will operate safely and reliably for some desired future period. API Recommended Practice 579 provides a general procedure for assessing fitness for service. The assessment procedure evaluates the remaining strength of the equipment in its current condition, which may be degraded from its original conditions. Common degradation mechanisms include corrosion, localized corrosion, pitting and crevice corrosion, hydrogen attack, embrittlement, fatigue, high-temperature creep, and mechanical distortion. Methods for evaluating the strength and remaining service life of equipment containing these types of degradation are presented and reviewed. Examples are presented to illustrate the application of these methods to process plant equipment.
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