After completing this course, the licensee should be able to:
- Describe what typical piping systems consist of and explain their importance to plant operations.
- Identify common valves and fittings, pipe hangers and supports
- Describe the effects of temperature on piping system components and explain the need for insulation.
- List routine maintenance considerations for piping systems.
- Explain how metal pipes are sized and designated according to standard codes and schedules.
- Identify the characteristics of metals that make them suitable for a variety of piping applications.
- Discuss the major considerations involved in the maintenance of metal piping.
- Describe the different methods of connecting sections of metal pipe, including bell-and-spigot joints, welded, soldered, or brazed joints, screwed or threaded joints, and flanged joints.
- Name the basic nonmetallic piping materials and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each.
- Identify the different forms of concrete pipe.
- Discuss the limitations of plastic pipe.
- Explain the difference between thermoplastic and thermosetting plastic pipe.
- Describe how to join sections of nonmetallic pipe, and how to maintain them.
- Compare piping and tubing and list the major advantages of tubing.
- Describe the methods of cutting, bending, and joining sections of tubing.
- List the main types of metal tubing and describe the kinds of industrial applications in which they are used.
- List the main types of plastic tubing and describe the kinds of industrial applications in which they are used.
- Explain how hoses are sized, classified, and con‐ structed.
- Define basic hose terminology.
- Discuss the respective advantages of metallic hose, nonmetallic hose, and reinforced nonmetallic hose.
- Describe the common types of hose couplings used in industrial service.
- List the primary maintenance requirements of hoses.
Course Format: Text
Credit Type: Wastewater, Drinking Water
CEUs: 0.3
Course ID(s): 7561
Approved By: Occupational & Professional Licenses - Board of Drinking Water and Water
Piping Systems: Part 1 [45 Activities]
- 01. Piping Systems
- 02. Fluids
- 03. Protecting Steam Lines
- 04. Keeping Fluids Clean and Moving
- 05. Piping System Maintenance
- 06. Valves and Fittings
- 07. Pipe Hangers and Supports
- 08. Temperature Effects
- 09. Piping Insulation
- 10. Typical Piping Systems
- 11. Maintenance Considerations
- 12. Pipes
- 13. Pipe Schedules and Other Pipe Codes
- 14. Types of Systems
- 15. Metal Piping and Characteristics of Metals
- 16. Pipe-Manufacturing Methods
- 17. Behavior of Fluids in Piping
- 18. Piping Applications
- 19. Maintenance Considerations
- 20. Joining Pipe
- 21. Nonmetallic Piping Materials
- 22. Concrete Pipe
- 23. Asbestos-Cement Pipe
- 24. Plastic Pipe
- 25. Limitations of Plastic Pipe
- 26. Joining Plastic Pipe
- 27. Maintaining Plastic Pipe
- 28. Glass Pipe
- 29. Maintenance Requirements
- 30. Tubing
- 31. Advantages of Tubing
- 32. Tube Joining
- 33. Types of Tubing
- 34. Tubing Applications
- 35. Plastic Tubing
- 36. Other Applications and Maintenance
- 37. Hoses
- 38. Codes and Sizes
- 39. Hose Classifications
- 40. Hose Terminology
- 41. Reinforced Nonmetallic Hose
- 42. Nonmetallic Hose
- 43. Metallic Hose
- 44. Hose Couplings
- 45. Maintenance
Course Completion
- Mandatory Questionnaire
- Certificate of Achievement