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The piping industry today is very diverse in its use of computer-aided design. This diversity is shown by the various levels of sophistication of the CAD applications in use by different segments of the industry. Even within the same company, the sophistication of CAD use can vary widely from discipline to discipline, department to department. This diversity ranges from a surprisingly large portion of the industry in which there is little use of CAD to a few who claim to be a

These codes and standards were written to establish minimum requirements for safe design and construction with very little reference to the physical routing of piping. However, the piping designer should be familiar with them as they apply to his or her work. There are a few specific references to physical piping design of safety relief valve arrangements: The ASME Boiler and Pressure Code, Section I, Power Boilers, specifies that there is to be no intervening pipe, valves, or

Piping is a major expenditure in the design and construction of industrial, refinery, petrochemical, or power-generating plants when one cons