Unlike water piping, ammonia pipes experience significant thermal contraction (shrinkage) during pump-down cycles. The handbook provides charts for calculating required expansion loops and offsets. Ignoring this leads to broken flanges and cracked welded elbows.
It covers complex technical aspects such as pipe sizing through both economic analysis and pressure loss methods.
: Strategies for selecting and installing insulation to prevent energy loss and corrosion under insulation (CUI). Welding and Standards
: Extensive sections on sizing vapor and hydrostatic relief devices, as well as discharge line design. System Components