The Pipe Support Blog

Pipe Saddles for a Refinery in Chad

Piping Technology & Products, Inc. designed and manufactured these pipe saddles for a power plant in Chad.

The saddles are comprised of bolt clamps, structural steel and vinyl pipe shields.  They were built for bare pipes ranging in size from 2 24 and can accommodate temperatures from 29 degrees C. to 538 degrees C.

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Cylinder Pipe Guides

Piping Technology & Products, Inc. designed and manufactured cylinder pipe guides for an energy center in Canada.

These guides, which are frequently referred to as spider guides, are designed to control lateral pipe movement and maintain the alignment of the piping through its axial and contraction cycles. A single piping run uses spider guides in number to avoid a fulcrum or an imposed lateral deflection on critical components.

These spider guides were designed for pipes ranging from 1" to 20" diameter with 1" to 4" of insulation. The components include carbon steel plates, stock clamps, angles and green-primer coated pipes. The outer shields have diameters ranging of approximately 6" to 29-1/2" with a bottom-of-angle to center-of-pipe dimensions of 3-1/8" to 15-3/4". The maximum design temperature for the spider guides is 750°F.

Cylinder Pipe Guides for a Power Plant

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Pipe Shoes with Loads up to 75,000 lb.

Piping Technology & Products, Inc. designed and fabricated several pipe shoes with loads up to 75,000 lbs. respectively, for a 750MW power plant in Alabama.

The shoes are to support the cooling towers' circulatory water system at the power plant. The majority of the shoes were designed for a 60" line and 50,000 lb. load, and the remaining few were designed for a 78" line and 75,000 lbs. of load. After extensive engineering hours and structure analysis, PT&P's engineering department was able to produce a detailed design and 3-D model for the supports that would allow them to run electronic interface checks.

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Chrome-Moly Pipe Shoe for an 18" Pipe

Piping Technology & Products, Inc., designed and fabricated a Figure 700 chrome-moly shoe for an 18" pipe used to support high temperature lines at a power plant in Mexicali, Mexico.

The shoe's length is 12" and the pipe centerline distance was maintained at 17 3/8" from the bottom of the shoe. The clamp was designed at 1065°F and the load was designed for 6965 pounds. The base and clamp plates are made of A387 GR.22 plate material and the u-bolt parts are made of A193 GR.B7 bar stock.

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Pipe Shoes for a 14" Pipe at an LNG Plant

Pipe Shoes For 14" Pipe

Piping Technology & Products, Inc. fabricated cryogenic pipe supports designed for a 14-inch pipe at a LNG plant in Algeria. The pipe operates below minus 50 degrees F, therefore the pipe supports were fabricated from three different materials in order to accommodate the low temperatures. The upper part, which clamps on to the pipe, was fabricated from a stainless steel plate that retains its strength at low temperatures. The middle section is a laminated phenolic block made from layers of wood impregnated under vacuum with a synthetic resin. A crossed orientation of the hard wood fibers is used to provide extra strength. The laminated phenolic block, which is a poor conductor of heat, was bolted to the bottom plate of the galvanized carbon steel.

High Strength Stainless Steel Pipe Guides

Piping Technology & Products, Inc. manufactured over 2,000 high-strength, stainless steel pipe guides for a liquefied natural gas facility in Trinidad.

This high strength insulation is rare and mainly used for cryogenic applications. The guides range in a variety of sizes including 4-inch to 36-inch NPS and the fabrication included carbon steel base plates and stainless steel plates, nuts and bolts.

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