Description
Corrosion and fouling are unavoidable in chemical process operations, yet they can seriously impact process efficiency, equipment reliability, safety, and profitability. This guidebook provides a collection of practical engineering articles offering guidance for managing corrosion and fouling in a variety of equipment, piping systems, and process units, including pressure vessels, reactors, heat exchangers, pumps, condensers, gas turbines, and flares.
Features & Benefits
- Practical guidance for preventing and mitigating corrosion and fouling in chemical process equipment
- Engineering recommendations for pressure vessels, piping systems, heat exchangers, boilers, turbines, and reactors
- Insights into corrosion monitoring technologies, including real-time systems and predictive techniques
- Strategies for reducing maintenance downtime and avoiding catastrophic equipment failures
- Case studies and lessons learned from industrial applications, including microreactors and shell-and-tube exchangers
- Guidance on managing aboveground and buried piping systems
- Best practices for optimizing heat exchanger performance and minimizing fouling
- Safety-focused engineering recommendations for handling hazardous chemicals
Audience
- Process, chemical, and mechanical engineers
- Plant operators and maintenance personnel
- Project engineers and process designers
- Instrumentation, safety, and reliability engineers
- Researchers and technical managers in the chemical, petrochemical, and energy industries
Articles Include
- Column Revamps: From Outside to Inside
- Microreactors: Lessons Learned From Industrial Applications
- Steam-System Water Preparation
- Thermowell Installation
- Polymer-based Piping
- Controlling Membrane Fouling
- Point-Level Switches for Safety Systems
- Design Underground Piping For Safety
- Inspecting Underground Piping
- Flare Consolidation Considerations
- Thermal Design Guidelines for Optimizing Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers
- Superheater Problems in Steam Generators
- Pressurized Piping: Sampling Steam and Water
- Pressure-Vessel Quality Control Requirements
- Flooded Condenser Controls: Principles and Troubleshooting
- The Shotgun Approach: Removing Fouling Deposits on Heat Transfer Surfaces
- Gas Turbines: Design and Operating Considerations
- A New Approach to Corrosion Monitoring
- Compact, High-efficiency Heat Exchangers: Understanding Fouling
- An Up-Close Look at Electropositive Filtration
- Implementing a Corrosion-Under-Insulation Program
- Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers: The Design Cycle
- Beware of Flow-Accelerated Corrosion
- Piping-System Leak Detection and Monitoring for the CPI
- Unlocking the Secrets of Plate-and-Frame Heat Exchangers
- Reliable Operation and Sealing of Agitators
- Piping Design for Potentially Lethal Chemicals
- Optimizing Flare Operation Through Proper Design
- Piping Codes: What the CPI Engineer Should Know
- Magnetically Driven Pumps: An Overview
- Troubleshooting Tube-Deterioration Mechanisms in Direct-Fired Heaters
Details
Type: PDF
Pages: 147
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