Basics of Piping Engineering: Piping Course

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The course on Basics of Piping Engineeering has been developed to explain the fundamentals of Piping Engineering in detail. The content is organized in a systematic manner so that the first timers can also understand. Course content is based on practical problems and solutions, which is created by experienced professionals with decades of experience in the relevant field. Please Note: The course is Published on EPCLand platform which is learning management system (LMS) and designed for online courses.

The purpose of this article is to give answers to the basic questions about the course which commonly comes into the mind before enrolling to the published courses. So Let’s begin with details and look at various sections of the article.

What are you going to learn in this piping course

This section talks about basics of process industry, where various topics have been organized in such a way that anyone can understand what is process industry and how it works. In this section majorly, following topics are covered

Basics of Piping Engineering:
1. Elements of Piping Engineering
  1. What is Energy Sector
  2. What is Oil and gas Industry
  3. Crude Oil Processing
  4. Refinery vs Petro-Chemical
  5. What is Piping Engineering
  6. Engineering Organization
  7. Piping discipline
  8. Various Disciplines & stakeholders
  9. How piping Department Works
  10. Piping Systems
2. Life Cycle of oil & gas Project
  1. Overview of Life Cycle
  2. Life Cycle Phases
  3. Life Cycle Stages of Oil & Gas
  4. Life Cycle Initiation
  5. Life Cycle planning & Execution
  6. Life Cycle Closing
3. Pipes: Topics covered
  1. Introduction to pipes
  2. Dimensional Standards
  3. Various Types
  4. Pipe & Associated components
4. Valves
  1. Valves definition and classification
  2. Isolation Valves
  3. Regulation Valves
  4. Non return & special valves
  5. Valve Accessways
5. Flanges
  1. Topics covered
  2. what is flange
  3. PT rating
  4. PT rating vs flange
  5. 16 5 ASME
  6. 16 47 ASME
6. Strainers
  1. Types & principle of Strainers
  2. Pump piping components
7. Steam traps
  1. Steam traps classifications
  2. Working & principles
8. Codes & Standards
  1. Introduction to Stds
  2. Diff 31 1 & 31 31
  3. ASME 36 10
  4. 16 5 ASME
  5. 16 47 ASME
  6. API 600
  7. API 6D
  8. API 598
9. Pipe Wall thickness Calculations
  1. Promo Pipe thickness
  2. Pipe thickness
  3. Allowable Stress
  4. PT rating
  5. Wall thickness
  6. Wall thickness
10. Piping Deliverables & Non-Deliverables and Manhour Estimation
  1. Introduction to Deliverables & Non-Deliverables
  2. Layout Team Deliverables
  3. Stress Team Deliverables
  4. Material Team Deliverables
  5. Layout team non-Deliverables
  6. Material Stress Non-Deliverables
  7. Man-Hour Estimations
  8. Painting specification
  9. Insulation & Painting

What is the duration of course

Total duration of the course is 9 hours. However, it is recommended to watch the lecture at least thrice, so that the fundamentals covered can be easily grabbed.

Recommendations to proceed further

It is highly recommended that watching all the lecture continuously in a single sitting should be avoided.
Prepare a schedule of 1-2 hours on daily basis.
Write down the learning in short or in the form of your own notes
List out the queries or doubts and share at Forums of Engineers Land.
Join Telegram group and register to keep yourself updated with the latest published content on EPCLand and Engineers Land.

Top Benefits of Piping Engineering course

Lifetime access once enrolled
Same lecture can be watched as many times as you want
Flexibility of time and location
Readymade notes which can be referred before interviews and working on live projects
Become part of professional communities on Telegram & Engineers Land.

Prerequisites of this course

Willingness to learn
Complete clarity on where you see yourself after 3-5 years
Awareness of Energy sector (Click here to read about Scope of Piping Engineers)

How to be an expert in piping engineering

Recommended courses (Published on EPCLand):

Don’t miss 7 Free courses available for Enrolment

Along with the above mentioned recommend courses, there are 7 free course which available on EPCLand platform. These courses are just published so that the candidates can get use to the interface of EPCLand and get a feel how the lectures are available and organised on this platform. Following are the links to the free courses:

Recommended YouTube Playlists

2 minutes FundasSeries: Explains hundreds of Piping Engineering fundamentals in less than 2 minutes
Piping questions and answers: It talks about various Questions & Answers to understand the engineering fundamentals
Piping Engineering Interview preparation: This Section talks about the various questions which are generally aske during interviews
Subscribe YouTube Channel: Highly recommended to subscribe the Oil and Gas Fundas YouTube channel for various updates

Summary
To conclude, this article talks about the course details on Basics of piping Engineering explaining what is covered and how to approach after Enrollment. Moreover, it explains how to be part of various professional communities related to piping engineering where candidates can join various ongoing discussions and share the queries.

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