Description
Throughout the chemical process industries, proper maintenance is essential to ensure the safe and reliable operation of facilities. Engineers increasingly recognize the direct impact that proactive maintenance has on budgets and overall profitability.
This PDF provides a diverse collection of engineering articles and actionable guidance to help CPI facilities plan and manage maintenance activities in the most proactive, organized, and cost-effective way. Focus is on overall maintenance programs, computerized maintenance-management systems, and optimizing efforts during planned shutdowns and turnarounds. Practical engineering recommendations address water and wastewater treatment, steam and boiler operation, heat exchangers and heat transfer fluids, burners, rotating equipment, and more.
Features & Benefits
- Guidance for managing overall maintenance programs
- Best practices for computerized maintenance-management systems
- Optimizing maintenance during planned shutdowns and turnarounds
- Engineering recommendations for water and wastewater systems, steam, boilers, heat exchangers, and burners
- Practical insights on rotating equipment and reliability improvement
- Strategies for corrosion monitoring and dust/explosion prevention
Audience
- Chemical process engineers
- Plant operations and maintenance personnel
- Reliability and mechanical engineers
- Project and turnaround managers
- Health, safety, and environmental specialists
Articles
- A Checklist for Safer Chemical Batch Reactions
- Avoiding Project Failures
- Facts at Your Fingertips: Non-chemical Water Treatment
- Facts at Your Fingertips: Heat Transfer Fluids: System Filtration
- Facts at Your Fingertips: Heat Transfer System Cleaning
- Facts at Your Fingertips: Controlling Membrane Fouling
- Heat Transfer Fluids: Maintaining the System
- Maximizing Heat-Transfer Fluid Longevity
- Troubleshooting Heat-Transfer Fluid Systems
- Preventing Tank Corrosion
- Managing Pressure while Pigging an Oil Pipeline
- Gear Units in CPI Plants
- Plant Revamps and Turnarounds: Some Lessons Learned
- Wireless Diagnostics for Steam Traps
- CPI Water and Steam Chemistry
- Tank Coatings: Covering the Basics of Selection and Specification
- Improve Rotary Equipment Reliability with Checklists
- Computerized Maintenance Management Systems for Effective Plant Performance
- Seven Tools for Project Success
- Maintenance and Repair of Glass-Lined Equipment
- Internal Corrosion Sampling
- Dust Control in the Chemical Processing Industries
- A New Approach to Corrosion Monitoring
- Implementing a Corrosion-Under-Insulation Program
- Condition Monitoring for Rotating Machinery
- Five Steps to Replacing Aged Heat-Transfer Fluid
- Beware of Flow-Accelerated Corrosion
- Corrosion in Flexible Burner Hoses
- Don’t Overlook Composite FRP Pipe
- A Method for Quantifying Pipe Vibrations
- Piping-System Leak Detection and Monitoring for the CPI
- Steam Management: Don’t Send Money Down the Drain Part 2
- The Importance of Intensive Steam Trap Management
- Condition-Based Maintenance Management Enhances Reliability
- Dust Explosions: Prevention & Protection
- Burner Inspection and Maintenance
- Critical Connections Demand Certainty
- Tolerable Risk
- Strategies for Controlling Membrane Fouling
- Condition Monitoring Methods for Pumps
- Steam Balances Save Money
Details
Type: PDF
Pages: 138
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