It gives me great pleasure and a sense of deep satisfaction to publish this book “Piping Welder Handbook”. You can learn how to make a proper pipe welding or how to weld pipe, pipe supports and steel structures and teach yourself to be a master of the welder’s craft with the step-by-step instructions, learning tools and equipment. A pipe fitter and welder are the tradespersons who install, assemble, fabricate, maintain and repair mechanical piping systems. Pipe welder usually begins as helpers or apprentices. A pipe fitter and welder deal with industrial and marine piping systems. Typical industrial process pipe is under high pressure which requires high-grade metals such as carbon steel, stainless steel, and many different alloy steel fused through precise cutting, threading, grooving, bending and welding. Pipe fitter and welder plan the piping and tubing layouts, cut, bend and fabricate pipe or tube segments and join those segments by threading them, using lead joints, welding, brazing, cementing or soldering them together. They install manual, pneumatic, hydraulic and electric valves in pipes to control the flow through the pipes or tubes. These workers create the system of tubes in boilers and make holes in walls and bulkheads to accommodate the passage of the pipes they install.
Pipefitters and welders are often exposed to hazardous materials, such as asbestos, lead, ammonia, steam, flammable gases, various resins and solvents including benzene, and various refrigerants. Much progress was made in the 20th century toward eliminating or reducing hazardous materials exposures. Many aspects of hazardous materials are now regulated by law in most countries, including asbestos usage and removal, and the refrigerant selection and handling. Other occupational hazards include exposure to the weather, heavy lifting, crushing hazards, lacerations, and other risks normal to the construction industry. This book has proved to be a friend and guide to many Pipe Fitters or Welders, Contractors, and Technicians working with any Construction or Consultants Companies, who are responsible for Laying out, assembling or installation of piping systems, pipe supports, applying their knowledge of construction experience following blueprints and select type and size of pipe, related materials and equipment, such as supports, hangers, and hydraulic cylinders, according to piping drawings and specifications.
Fitter and Welder are the main technical professionals who are responsible for delivering quality job of piping work and they should have sufficient knowledge of Piping Engineering subject. This will result in improving the general quality levels of a Pipe Fitter & Welder in this direction leading to greater satisfaction in work. This book is taking a lead in upgrading the awareness & knowledge of various matters related to piping work benefiting Pipe Fitters and Welders working in the field of piping work. The total practical approach of this book explores the statistical data on mathematics, physics, chemistry, and engineering that, even the piping engineering subject is tough to understand, a general reader or beginners willing to know about the subject, will find the content very easy and simple to follow. I hope that the excellence of this book will be appreciated by readers from all parts of India and abroad.