Piping and Pipeline Calculations Manual, 2014 Edition

Piping and Pipeline Calculations Manual, 2014 Edition
Author: J. PHILLIP ELLENBERGER

The basic premise of this book is that at the heart of those requirements are a series of calculations, which cover a wide range of subjects.
In any pipeline system, the core of the system itself is the piping, which is
its skeleton. However, as with any skeleton, there must be other elements to
include before the system can become the final entity that was the original
idea.
Pipe is basically a transport structure. To determine what that structure
requires would involve what it is intended to transport. While it is important
to have knowledge of how the medium to be transported is generated, this
book does not address that area. Generation of that comes from another field
of expertise.
A pipe system has a beginning, an ending, and a path between the two
points. To transport the medium liquid or gas some definition of temperatures,
pressures, amount to be transported per unit of time, and the
energy required to accomplish the transport need to be, at least partially,
established. Many of these will be considered as a given in this book and the
methods of calculating the other elements are discussed and explained.