Pipe

Thickness
as Per

API 570
Pressure Design Thickness
Minimum Required Thickness
Minimum Alert Thickness

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Pressure Design Thickness
Minimum Required Thickness
Minimum Alert Thickness

Varun Patel,
B.E- Mechanical, PMP
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Pipe Thickness -ASME B31.3 Para 304.1.1

tm = t + c
t Pressure Design Thickness

c sum of the mechanical allowances

tm Minimum Required Thickness

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Pressure Design Thickness - t
ASME B31.3 Para
304.1.2 - Straight Pipe Under Internal Pressure
304.1.3 - Straight Pipe Under External Pressure
304.2 - Curved and Mitered Segments of Pipe

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Minimum Required Thickness
6 Thickness
tm = t + c Schedule No mm
t 6 STD / 40 7.11

c 3 80 10.97

tm 9+12.5% = 10.125 120 14.27

T-10.97 Selected / Actual Pipe Wall Thickness

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Thickness Measurement Location

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Minimum Alert Thickness
tm = t + c
t 6
c 3
tm 9+12.5% = 10.125
T 10.97 (Pipe Wall Thickness Selected / Actual)
ta 10.30 (Minimum Alert Thickness)
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