Nobody Will Sign the P&ID
Ask for a P&ID and you will get one. Ask someone to sign it, and the room changes. Why P&ID verification in an operating plant comes before the engineering.
High-Energy Piping Retrofits: Why the As-Built Basis Decides the Outage
On a high-energy piping system, the engineering is rarely the hard part. Stress analysis is a mature discipline. Support design is well understood. Code requirements are written down and unambiguous. Give a competent piping group a correct model of the system and they will give you a correct design. The problem is the word correct. […]
Why Chutes Plug — And What DEM Simulation Shows That a Layout Drawing Can’t
A transfer chute can be drawn correctly and still fail. The geometry closes. The dimensions are right. The steel fits between the head pulley and the receiving belt. Every view on the drawing checks out. Then the system goes into service, and within a few months there’s spillage under the load zone, dust in the […]