Pipeline Engineering Design (PLE-01)

The course broadly covers the following topics.

• Introduction to pipeline hydraulics for single phase and multiphase flows and for fluids with various characteristics
  
• Pipeline design codes
  
• Selection of design pressure and temperature conditions for pipelines
  
• Energy considerations
  
• Pipe selection and thickness calculation
  
• Pumps and Compressors
  
• Estimation of surge pressure
  
• Pipeline pigging, pig launcher and receiver
  
• Sizing of control valves, restriction orifice plates, pressure relief devices
  
• System control
  
• Pipeline safeguarding
  
• Pipeline corrosion and control
  
• Pipeline system planning
  
• Software for pipeline distribution network
  
• Multi-phase flow patterns