Description
Valves are essential throughout chemical process industries (CPI) operations, and proper engineering attention is required to ensure optimal performance, reliability, and safety. This guidebook provides actionable engineering guidance on control valves, pressure-relief valves, and emergency-shutdown valves, emphasizing selection, operation, commissioning, and troubleshooting.
Features & Benefits
- Guidance on control and communication strategies to optimize valve operation
- Recommendations for proper selection of positioners and control sensors
- Tips for managing fugitive emissions and compliance with emission standards
- Practical guidance for steam-production systems, distillation, and large-scale fermentation processes
- Strategies for commissioning and startup planning to improve project predictability
- Engineering insights into hygienic operations and solids-handling equipment
- Coverage of functional safety approaches for emergency shutdown valves
Audience
- Process and mechanical engineers
- Plant operators and maintenance personnel
- Instrumentation and control engineers
- Project engineers and managers in chemical processing facilities
- Safety and reliability engineers
Articles Include
- Control Valves: An Evolution In Design
- Avoiding Pressure Relief Problems
- Control Valve Position Sensors
- Managing Pressure while Pigging an Oil Pipeline
- Plant Revamps and Turnarounds: Some Lessons Learned
- Sizing Calculations for Pressure-Relief Valves
- The Relationship Between Materials Selection and Machining Processes
- Seven Tools for Project Success
- An Investigation of Premature Flooding in a Distillation Column
- Rotary Valves in Pneumatic Conveying Systems
- Steam Balancing: The First Step in Steam Optimization
- Hygienic Process Equipment Fabrication
- Optimizing Pressure Relief Systems
- Connecting Operations Personnel to Reliability Efforts
- Performance Trends of Top Performers in the CPI
- Large-Scale Fermentation Systems: Hygienic Design Principles
- Communication Technologies for Throttling Valve Control
- Considering Fugitive Emissions During the Conceptual Design Stage
- Emergency Shutdown Valves: A Functional Safety Approach to Selection
- Commissioning and Startup: Increase Certainty Through Advanced Planning
- Using Installed Gain to Improve Valve Selection
- Improving Control Valve Performance
- Emissions Regulations and Control
- Feeder Design for Solids Handling
- Valves: Emissions Standards and Current Practices
- Gas Detection as a Risk Mitigation Technique
Details
Type: PDF
Pages: 139
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