Description
Ensuring optimal plant reliability in chemical process industries (CPI) facilities requires attention to day-to-day operations of equipment components and systems. Small issues can escalate into major, even catastrophic, events, impacting safety, operations, and finances.
This guidebook provides a wealth of information, engineering recommendations, and strategies for maintaining plant components in top condition and preventing downtime, increased maintenance costs, or environmental and safety issues. Articles cover pumps, valves, fans, heat exchangers, boilers, compressors, and more, along with guidance on temperature measurement and control, piping system design, and bulk-solids handling.
Features & Benefits
- Engineering guidance for plant operability and reliability across major equipment types
- Practical strategies for troubleshooting, maintenance, and cost reduction
- Tips for proper equipment selection, monitoring, and operational safety
- Improved understanding of process design, operation, and control methodologies
- Delivered in a detailed PDF format with comprehensive coverage
Audience
- Process and chemical engineers
- Plant operations and maintenance engineers
- Design engineers responsible for equipment and process reliability
- Technical managers in chemical, petroleum, pharmaceutical, and biotech industries
Articles Include
- Advanced Control Methods for Combustion
- Hot-oil Heat-Tracing Systems
- Heat Exchanger Standards for Shell-and-Tube Equipment
- A Primer on Compressor Design
- Control Engineering for Chemical Engineers
- Particle Impact Problems in Pneumatic Conveying
- Crossflow Membrane Filtration Essentials
- Infrared Temperature Measurement
- Thermowell Installation
- Pressure Measurement Considerations
- Maximizing Fan Efficiency
- Optimization of a Steam Network
- Design Underground Piping For Safety
- Evaluate Heat-Exchanger Tube-Rupture Scenarios Using Dynamic Simulation
- The Impact of Off-BEP Pump Operation
- Gas Turbines: Design and Operating Considerations
- Valve-Selection Best Practices
- Maximizing Performance in Size Reduction
- Combining the use of Rupture Discs with Relief Valves
- Filtration and Separation During Chemical Process Operations: Avoid Common Errors
- Why Bad Things Happen to Good Steam Equipment
- Rotating Machinery: What You Should Know About Operational Problems
- Steel Corrosion
- Five Steps to Replacing Aged Heat-Transfer Fluid
- Compressors: Pursuing Lowest Cost of Ownership
- Piping-System Leak Detection and Monitoring for the CPI
- Reliable Operation and Sealing of Agitators
- Proper Use of Conventional PRV Discharge Coefficients
- Industrial Insulation Systems: Material Selection Factors
- Pressure Transmitter Basics: Selection Guidelines
- Pneumatic Conveying: Optimal System Design, Operation and Control
- Pipe Insulation: Finding the Optimal Thickness
- Industrial Adsorbents
- Piping Codes: What the CPI Engineer Should Know
- Vacuum Systems: Recommendations For Safe Operation
- Improve Rotary Equipment Reliability with Checklists
- Mechanical Seals Update: Pharmaceutical and Food Applications
- Troubleshooting Tube-Deterioration Mechanisms in Direct-Fired Heaters
Details
Type: PDF
Pages: 237
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