Chris Ziu, NUPI Americas Sales Manager, wrote an interesting and comprehensive specific technical manual about Double Walled Piping Systems. For the drafting of this manual, NUPI experience of SMARTFLEX double wall piping system for the safe transport of fuels and dangerous fluids while preventing leakage was very helpful. In SMARTFLEX double wall pipes, the secondary pipe is not just a containment barrier but it is a real high-density polyethylene pipe capable of sustaining the pressure or pressure drop of an automated monitoring system. This external pipe is also available with an inner barrier layer as requested by International Standards and by customers’ specific requests. The book includes many case references and has comprehensive coverage of double-walled piping system design, installation, and operation. Double-Walled Piping: A Handbook for the Petroleum and Petrochemical Industry takes you through the construction of both under- and above-ground systems and features complete details on system selection and installation, leak detection, tanks, and testing. Advanced chapters cover design methods and multinational approaches to determining size and performance criteria. You will also get an up-to-date overview of global practices, methods, laws, and requirements.

Coverage includes:

• Materials of construction

• System selection

• Fluid dynamics and sizing analysis

• Design of metallic and nonmetallic primary components

• Design of secondary containment components

• Thermal expansion considerations

• Structural considerations

• Heat transfer in double containment piping

• Layout concepts for double containment piping

• Fabrication, installation, inspection, examination, and testing

• Associated storage tanks and pressure vessels

• Leak detection

• Trenchless installation and alternatives to secondary containment piping