Piping and Pipelines Assessment Guide

This book is the first volume in the Stationary Equipment Assessment Series. Used in a multitude of industries, stationary equipment must be kept operational and reliable for companies to maintain production and for employees to be safe from accidents. This series, the most comprehensive of its kind, uses real-life examples and time-tested rules of thumb to guide the mechanical engineer through issues of reliability and fitness-for-service. The assessment of stationary equipment is more important in the process industries than ever before. In 2002 a pipeline ruptured in Kuwait, killing several pipeline engineers, currently the safety of the Longhorn Pipeline in Texas is being hotly debated, new pipelines have been proposed in numerous locations, to name a few issues facing the pipeline industry today.