Facility Piping Systems Handbook_ For Industrial, Commercial, and Healthcare Facilities

'Facility Piping Systems Handbook for Industrial, Commercial and Health Care Applications by Frankel McGraw Hill Publishers 2010 Reviewed by: Dr. Joseph S. Maresca The work begins with an exhaustive list of professional institutes related to the topic of piping systems and processes. Examples of the governing institutes are: o American Gas Institute o American Petroleum Institute o American Society of Testing / Materials and a host of others There are codes for piping systems, allowable materials, stresses, seismic loads, thermal heat expansion, fabrication, installations and testing. The topic of corrosion is discussed extensively. Corrosion resistance is the ability of the pipe to resist internal corrosive effects of fluid flow throughout , as well as external corrosive flows on the pipe itself . i.e. soils and the surrounding atmospheric conditions Corrosion can be reduced or eliminated with suitable coatings, linings and cathodic protection . Cathodic protection has become a widely used method for controlling the corrosion deterioration of metallic structures in contact with most forms of electrolytically conducting environments. Cathodic protection reduces the corrosion rate of a metallic structure by reducing its corrosion potential, bringing the metal closer to an immune state. General corrosion describes pipe dissolution over the entire exposed surface where localized corrosion resides in a small area of the pipe. Corrosive cracking is the physical deterioration and cracking of pipe wall due to increased operating temperature, tensile stress on the pipe and chemicals. The author describes water impurities like turbidity (insolubles) , bacteria and viruses. Tensile stress occurs when a material undergoes a pulling or stretching force. Stress is defined as a force applied over a cross-sectional area in typical units of pounds per square inch (psi) or Newtons per square meter. The type of stress that a material is exposed to will depend on how the force is being