In the last decade, Soviet heat-power engineering has made significant advancements, including increased power plant capacities and improvements in thermodynamic cycles through intermediate superheating and higher steam parameters. These changes have simplified piping layouts in some aspects, but also made them more complex due to the need for superheating. The use of higher steam parameters has necessitated the use of stronger steels and thicker-walled pipes, which in turn requires better piping design methods. Current strength calculations for pipelines are governed by standards like “The Standard Procedures to Calculate Steam Boiler Elements for Strength” and industry-specific standards, ensuring mass production of piping elements while focusing on general strength principles.

The advent of digital computers has greatly enhanced piping design, enabling complex calculations for self-compensating pipelines and systems with movable inflection points and multiple anchor points. This book outlines the general theory of computer-aided pipeline design and presents a simpler calculation procedure with adequate accuracy. It emphasizes the importance of considering the deformation of bent ovalled elbows under internal pressure. It also introduces methods for calculating thermal expansion compensation using bellows-type expansion joints, as well as hydrodynamic calculations for pipelines with large pressure drops. The book is primarily aimed at engineers designing thermal power stations and can serve as a textbook for students in the field.

Translated from the Russian by Prem Kumar Dang
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Foreword 7
Chapter One
Piping Layout and Design 9
1.1. Piping Project Design 9
1.2. Layout and Design 12
1.3. Drainage of Pipelines 20
1.4. Pipeline Supports 24
1.5. Application of Pipe Fittings 35
Chapter Two
Hydrodynamic Calculations and Selection of Pipe Diameter 40
2.1. General Information and Formulas 40
2.2. Resistance Coefficients 51
2.3. Hydrodynamic Calculations of Pipelines for Small Specific Volume Changes 59
2.4. Hydrodynamic Calculations of Pipes with Large Steam Specific Volume Variations 66
2.5. Hydrodynamic Calculations of Boiling Water and High-Pressure Saturated Steam Pipelines 88
2.6. Selection of the Most Rational Pipe Size 106
Chapter Three
Pipeline Structural Calculations 117
3.1. General 117
3.2. Basic Properties of Steels Used for Power Station Pipelines 121
3.3. Wall Thickness Calculations 128
3.4. Calculation for Combined Action of Internal Pressure and Additional External Loads 132
3.5. Self-Elongation of Pipelines 138
3.6. Check Calculation of Stresses Caused by Compensating for Thermal Elongations 143
3.7. Flexure in Curved Pipes and Equivalent Stress Ranges 149
3.8. Check Calculation of Elbows for Cyclic Stress Ranges 161
3.9. Hydrodynamic Forces in Pipelines 172
Chapter Four
Pipeline Thermal Elongation Compensation and Its Calculation 176
4.1. Methods of Compensating Thermal Elongations 176
4.2. Self-Compensation Problem and Methods of Its Solution 177
4.3. Coordinate System and Determination of Displacements to Be Compensated 180
4.4. General Theory of Pipeline Calculation for Self-Compensation 186
4.5. Determination of Bending Moments Due to Weight Load 196
4.6. Methods of Calculating Pipelines for Self-Compensation 200
4.7. Bellows-Type Expansion Joints and Their Use as Axial Expansion Joints 215
4.8. Compensation of Pipelines Through the Use of Bellows-Type Expansion Joints as Elastic Hinges 222
4.9. Use of Electronic Digital Computing Machines for Calculating Self-Compensation of Pipelines 230
4.10. Criterion for Calculating the Compensating Capacity of Pipelines 234
Appendices 237
Index 269