Chemical Process Plants-Proactive Maintenance Practices - electronic book

• 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

• 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

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