Calculating Piping Offsets

Calculating Piping Offsets is designed to familiarize participants with methods for calculating dimensions and angles for piping offsets. After completing this course, participants should be able to use right triangles and basic formulas to calculate fitting angles, complementary angles, and Offset, Run, and Travel dimensions for various simple and rolling offsets.

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Course Details

Learning Objectives

  • Identify the properties of a right triangle and how they can be used to calculate a piping offset
  • Explain how to calculate the travel dimension of a piping offset, given the run, an offset dimension and/or a fitting angle
  • Explain how to calculate a fitting angle, given a run and an offset measurement
  • Describe the general steps involved in calculating the travel for a 45 degree rolling piping offset

Specs

Course Level Intermediate
Languages English
Compatibility Audio, Video, MobileReady, Responsive

Jay Scheldorf

Author

Jay Scheldorf is a Chemical Engineer with a PhD from the University of Idaho. After graduating he worked for UOP, commissioning and troubleshooting oil refinery processes around the world. He was a founding partner at Pacific Simulation, which provided simulation software, services, and simulation-based training to the pulp and paper industry. Jay also spent time as a control engineer at Ahlstrom, working primarily on Kamyr digesters. At Convergence Training he developed and supervised the production of hundreds of pulp and paper-related online training modules, as well as a variety of general technical and safety-related modules.

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