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Preface List of authors 1. Pipe material PE 100 2. Pipe properties 3. Pipe design 4. Pipes and fittings 5. Quality assurance 6. Pipe joints 7. Pipelaying Pipeline Projects 13.6 km long high pressure gas pipeline made of PE 100 for 10 bar: Planning, construction, operation and cost analysis 25 bar drinking water line: Laying of PE 100 pipes for drinking water supply purposes in mountainous places 70 km long scrapable simultaneously laid PE 100 multi-pipeline for mineral water transport 8.6 km long PE 100 drinking water pipeline extruded on site and laid on the bottom of the Traunsee Renovation of a steel fire water pipeline system in a petrochemical plant with PE pipes Renovation of large-bore PE 100 pipes in the open-cut mining area of Welzow-Sud High safety in operation and long service life: 710 mm PE 100 sea outfall into the Atlantic Ocean Towed over 10000 kilometres by sea to the installation site: 1400 mm PE 100 protection pipe for the crude oil industrsy Standards and directives

About the Author

Editor Dipl.-Eng. Heiner Bromstrup Internationale Ingenieurberatung GmbH, Wiesbaden, Germany Authors Numerous authors as experts and engineers in the following companies: AGRU Kunststofftechnik GmbH, Bad Hall, Austria AGRU-Frank GmbH, Wolfersheim, Germany ATOFINA Research S.A., Feluy, Belgien Basell Deutschland GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany Borealis AB, Stenungsund, Sweden BP Solvay (Deutschland) GmbH, Rheinberg, Germany Bromstrup, Internationale Ingenieurberatung GmbH, Wiesbaden, Germany Frank GmbH, Morfelden, Germany Hessel Ingenieurtechnik GmbH, Roetgen, Germany Mainova AG, Frankfurt, Germany SABIC EuroPetrochemicals, Sittard, Netherlands Simona AG, Kirn, Germany