This article was published in two Parts. Part 1 appeared in the February 2007 issue of Chemical Engineering magazine. Part 2 appeared in the March 2007 issue of Chemical Engineering magazine. The two combined articles discuss the basics of pipe, fittings, and flanges.
This article was published in two Parts. Part 3 was included in the June, 2007 issue of Chemical Engineering magazine. Part 4 was included in the July, 2007 issue. The two combined articles touch on design elements, piping Codes, and fabrication.
This article was published in two Parts. Part 5 was included in the April, 2008 issue of Chemical Engineering magazine. Part 6 was included in the June, 2008 issue. The two combined parts discuss installation, cleaning, testing and verification.
Published in the June 2010 issue of Chemical Engineering magazine, this article touches on preventative design for protecting personnel, facilities, and equipment from the inherent risk of working with processes that contain hazardous fluids. It provides real examples of catastrophic events, their cause, and how they may have been prevented. It goes on to discuss various industry Codes and how they should be utilized and interpreted.
This article, first published in the October 2010 issue of Chemical Engineering magazine, walks the reader through the current (2009) issue of the ASME Bioprocessing Equipment (BPE) standard. The article describes the wide use of this standard and each of its nine Parts. It goes on to discuss some of the major additions to the standard including an entirely new Part on Process Instrumentation. This is a must read for any designer or engineer involved in bioprocessing technology.
This article, published in the January/February 2011 issue of the PDA Journal, discusses the development of industry standards, their application, and how closely related codes & standards are made to harmonize; in other words, the effort that goes into preventing conflicts among the codes & standards that are frequently used together. The article describes how the standard developers work together, using ASTM and ASME as typical examples. In addition to describing the content of the ASME-BPE standard the article describes a circumstance in which ASTM and ASME-BPE work together to resolve a material welding problem. The resolution of the problem resulted in supplemental material requirements in the ASTM standard that was then referenced in the ASME-BPE standard.
Published in the July 2011 issue of Chemical Engineering magazine this article describes the purpose and broad use of the new Chapter X High Purity Piping section in ASME B31.3. It discusses the current and timely need for such an addition to the widely used code for Process Piping. With the ever increasing use of bioprocessing techniques in the chemical process industry the need for standardized, well thought out design built on consensus could not have come at a more opportune time. Working in conjunction with the ASME BPE standard, Chapter X focuses on safety and integrity as it relates to High Purity Piping.