Zories Solutions Lagos March Session. Commences on 7th of March 09, Portharcourt session 6th of April 09. see zoriessolutions.com/training.php or email enquiries@zoriessolutions.com for more details.



1.0   PLANT & PIPING DESIGN WITH COMPUTER-AIDED-DESIGN SOFTWARE

Here, we make an assumption that each participant is familiar with the nuances of Pipes and Piping. Although, we make an effort to make some re-hash and revision, the constraint of purpose won’t make it exhaustive.

Our intent is to introduce the Piping Engineer to the beneficial applications of Computer-Aided-Design, CAD to Plant and Piping. Our suite of programs includes the following Plant Design and Management System, PDMS (majorly), CADWorx Plant (which has an AutoCAD interface) and Bentley’s AUTOPlant. But, our emphasis is on the program PDMS, except the participant has a differing expectation.


The course intent is under-listed.

•   Fundamentals of Pipe and Piping design.
•   Fundamentals of the flow of fluids through Pipes.
•   Introduction to Codes and Standards, ASME B31.3, B16.5, B16.10 etc.
•   Understanding the 3-dimensional space, in terms of co-ordinates, relativity, navigation and the specific placement of items in space
•   Understanding of the basic hierarchy and what elements can be created.
•   Basic understanding of the concepts of attributes.
•   How to navigate around the database.
•   Equipment design and its attendant templates.
•   The basic concepts of pipes and branches.
•   The use of piping specifications in PDMS.
•   Branch heads and tails and the importance of component list order and flow direction within a branch.
•   Understand how to create position and orientate piping components.
•   Describe all the functionality of the Create Components form.
•   Understand the catalogue point configurations for standard components.
•   Understand more complex positioning with relation to other design items.
•   P-points and axes.
•   Querying the current attribute settings.
•   How to change the settings of an attribute.
•   Report generation and output.
•   Generation of Isometrics and spool data.
•   Piping Integrity checking and clash-detection.

2.0   PIPING STRESS ANALYSIS & CAESAR II

This module draws heavily on a background of attendance of the Introductory Piping Course or in-depth familiarization with the dictates of ASME B31.3.
Our intent is to introduce the participant to the application of CAESAR II to Piping Stress Analysis and NOT just how use CAESAR II. The user will witness the “simulated” behavior of the design piping system in graphics and by various interpretations of results, modifications will be made.

A  Piping system which moves Crude Tower bottoms from the bottoms pump to a steam stripper unit which is utilized in a refining process is modelled in CAESAR II and the behaviour of the system is simulated and thus predicted, applying modifications, where necessary.

The course intent is as follows-

•   Piping system modeling in CAESAR II.
•   Introduction to the concepts of nodes and its subsequent investigation.
•   Restraint Bends, Tees etc modeling.
•   Error checking with CAESAR II.
•   Load Case combinations and investigation.
•   Stress Analysis and code compliance results and interpretation.
•   Displacement results and interpretation.
•   Restraint results and interpretation.
•   The need for system modification and the discretion about it.

Pls Note: the next Lagos session commences on Sat. 7th March 09 @ 228 Ikorodu rd, by obanikoro bus stop. Lagos.