Piping System Fundamentals

Piping System Fundamentals Course Overview

Class Information Price $1495.00 $895.00 Duration 4-Week 2-Day Modality Online Instructor Led PDH 24 16

This class is designed for developing core competencies and essential skill sets, giving attendees the ability to take knowledge learned and apply it directly back to the job. Engineered Software, Inc. collaborates with leading companies such as Crane Co. to provide participants with the most comprehensive piping systems training. Piping System Fundamentals is a course anyone in the piping system industry can use.

This course provides the foundation of piping terminology, mathematics, and the underlying concepts and principles that determine the performance of individual piping system elements and the system as a whole. Piping System Fundamentals places an emphasis on understanding the relationship between components that make up the piping system.

Who should attend? Is this training right for me? This course provides operations and maintenance supervisors, design and process engineers, and operators and maintenance personnel with a better understanding of how a complete piping system operates. It also provides real-world knowledge for engineers and is a great refresher course for senior engineers. Attendees come from a variety of fields and skill levels including but not limited to: Design Engineers, Plant Engineers, Facility Managers, Maintenance Technicians, Mechanics, Building Owners, Plant Operators, Safety Engineers, Recent College Graduates, and Sales Representatives

Course objectives Attendees will learn how to: • • • • •

Safely operate fluid piping systems Reduce operating, maintenance, and capital costs Increase plant reliability and system uptime Understand the components of a piping system Understand how all the items work together as a complete system

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The Online Self-Paced Blended program offers similar material as the Instructor-Led PSF class PLUS •

Additional material in the form of:  Quizzes to test comprehension  Self-Paced hands-on lab time using ESI-Learning LABS (PIPE-FLO® Professional) 

Access to 90 minutes of Critical Lesson time each week via live WebEx with the instructors, which are recorded and posted for convenient playback

Course Overview TOPIC 1: INTRODUCTION TO PIPING SYSTEMS • Topic 1-1 What is a piping system TOPIC 2: TERMINOLOGY, UNITS, AND ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES • Topic 2-1 Terminology and Units • Topic 2-2 Principals and Physical Laws • Topic 2-3 Bernoulli Equation TOPIC 3: PUMPS • Topic 3-1 Pump Basics • Topic 3-2 Reading Pump Curves • Topic 3-3 Pump Operating Costs • Topic 3-4 Pump Cavitation and NPSH TOPIC 4: TANKS AND VESSELS • Topic 4-1 Tanks and Vessels TOPIC 5: PIPELINES, FITTINGS, AND ISOLATION VALVES • Topic 5-1 Pipelines • Topic 5-2 Head Loss Sensitivity Study • Topic 5-3 Head Loss for Valves and Fitting • Topic 5-4 Flow in Isolation and Check Valves TOPIC 6: PROCESS ELEMENTS • Topic 6-1 Processes and Process Equipment TOPIC 7: PROCESS MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL • Topic 7-1 Process Instruments • Topic 7-2 Control Loops


TOPIC 8: CONTROL VALVES • Topic 8-1 Control Valve Basics • Topic 8-2 Control Valve Operation TOPIC 9: THE TOTAL SYSTEM • Topic 9-1 Combining Pipes, Pumps, and Components • Topic 9-2 Building a Pump / System Curve • Topic 9-3 Visualizing Pump System Energy • Topic 9-4 Visualizing Multi-Loop Systems • Topic 9-5 Troubleshooting Piping Systems

Included CRANES TECHNICAL PAPER NO. 410: The CRANE Technical Paper No. 410 (TP-410) is the quintessential guide to understanding the flow of fluid through valves, pipes, and fittings which aids users in selecting the correct equipment for their piping system. PIPING SYSTEM FUNDAMENTALS: Piping System Fundamentals: The Complete Guide to Gaining a Clear Picture of Your Piping System: An extensive look at the main conditions affecting the operation of a piping system while describing the interaction between pumps, compressors, pipelines, control valves, and other components. COMPREHENSIVE COURSE WORKBOOK: The comprehensive course workbook has several useful guidelines and key points of information covered in the course. This manual is an excellent resource for retrieving concepts taught during the seminar and applying them in the field. COURSE CERTIFICATE At the conclusion of the training course, attendees will be awarded a Certificate of Completion, with a course content description included for confirmation of continued education units.
