MAVE3600 Prosess and Piping Design Course description

The students will learn how a process plant is designed, and how the pipe system in a process plant is designed in order to meet the requirements of the flowing medium, processing equipment and other external conditions. The students will learn how to apply a 3D modelling tool, as well as the calculation tool Caesar II for stress and flexibility analysis of a pipe system.

The course builds on MAPE1300 Statics and Solid Mechanics, MATS2300 Construction and Finite Element Analysis, MAFE1000 Mathematics 1000, and MAPE2000 Mathematics 2000.

The course builds on MAPE1300, MATS2300, MAFE1000 and MAPE2000.

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After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and competence:

Knowledge

The student has an understanding of the complexity of designing a process plant, and can construct a pipe system in such a process plant.

The students have insight into and can apply and develop the following:

• Documents used in piping projects
• Piping sizes and piping codes
• Piping components and equipment
• Loads in a piping system
• Stress and flexibility analysis
• Design Code B31.3
• Support design
• Load on pipe ends
• Flange leak, Kellogg’s theorem

Skills

The student is capable of

• using a 3D modelling tool to design an oil and gas production facility
• applying the calculation tool Caesar II to conduct a stress and flexibility analysis of a piping system

General competence

The student

• is capable of completing a mechanical design and carrying out a stress and flexibility analysis of an oil and gas production facility
• is familiar with the work methods used to carry out a large-scale engineering project
• is capable of cooperating and communicating with others in a project group, and of documenting the group’s work

Lectures and project assignments.

The following coursework is compulsory and must be approved before the student can take the exam:

• Three project assignments

An individual three-hour written exam

The exam grade can be appealed.

A handheld calculator that cannot be used for wireless communication.

Grade scale A–F.

One examiner. The course may be selected for grading by external examiners.