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PIPING INTERVIEW QUESTIONNAIRE

1 What factors to consider for site selection? Ans : District classification, Transportation facilities, Manpower availability, industrial infrastructure, community infrastructure, availability of raw water, effluent disposal, availability of power, availability of industrial gas, site size and nature, ecology and pollution. 2 What are different standards? Ans : Most commonly use standards are as follows: 3 What are various temporary closures for lines? Ans : Line blind valve, line blind, spectacle plate, double block and bleed, blind flanges replacing a removable spool. 4 Where jacked screwed flange is used ? Ans : For spectacle discs, one flange is jacked screw flange. This flange has two jacked screws 180 degree apart which are used to create sufficient space between flange for easy removal and placement of line blind or spectacle blind. 5 What is double block and bleed? Ans : Two valves with bleed ring in between with a bleed valve connected to the hole of bleed ring.

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Standard ANSI B18.2 ANSI B16.3 ANSI B16.4 ANSI B16.9 ANSI B16.11 ANSI B16.25 ANSI B16.28 MSS-SP-43 MSS-SP-83 API 605 ANSI B16.1 ANSI B16.5 ANSI B16.47 ANSI B16.20 ANSI B16.21 API 601 API 5L ANSI B16.10 ANSI B36.19 ANSI B16.10 ANSI B16.34

Description Square and hexagola head bolts and nuts Malleable iron threaded fittings Cast iron threaded fittings. Steel buttwelding fittings Forged steel socketwelding and threaded fittings Buttwelding ends Short elbow radius and returns Stainless steel buttweld fittings Pipe Unions Large diameter carbon steel flanges Cast iron pipe flanges and flanged fittings Steel pipe flanges and flanged fittings Large diameter steel pipe flanges and flanged fitts. Ring joint gaskets and grooves for pipe flanges Non metallic gaskets for pipe flanges Metallic gasket for refinery piping. Specification for line pipe. Welded and seamless wrought steel pipes Welded and seamless austenitic stainless steel pipe Face to face and end to end dimensions of valves Steel valves, flanged and buttwelding ends.

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6. Where blind flange is used ? Ans : It is used with view to future expansion of the piping system, or for cleaning, inspection etc.

TOWERS

1 What are crude oil ranges? Ans : Crude oil BP Range: 100F-1400F, lightest material: Butene below 100F, Heavier materials- upto 800F, Residue above 800F. 2 What is batch shell process? Ans : feed, heat,condense,heat more,condense, low quality. 3 What are types of towers? Ans : Stripper, Vacuum tower, trayed, packed towers. 4 What is chimney tray? Ans : Its a solid plate with central chimney section, used at drawoff sections of the tower. 5 What factors to consider while setting tower elevation? Ans : NPSH, Operator access, Maintenance access, Minimum clearance, reboiler type , common area, type of support, Tower dimensions, type of head, bottom outlet size, foundation details, minimum clearances. 6 How to located tower maintenance access nozzles ? Ans : At bottom, top and intermediate sections of tower, must not be at the downcomer section of tower and in front of internal piping. 7 How to located feed nozzle ? Ans : Must be oriented in specific area of tray by means of internal piping. 8 How to located temperature and pressure instruments ? Ans : Temperature in liquid space, at downcomer side and pressure in vapor space, in area except downcomer sector.