Description
Volume one of this two-part guidebook contains practical, how-to engineering articles and useful “Facts at Your Fingertips” tip sheets, all originally published in Chemical Engineering. The content focuses on improving reliability across a wide range of equipment types and unit operations, including pumps, valves, heat-transfer systems, and instrumentation.
Features & Benefits
- Practical guidance on improving reliability of pumps, valves, and heat-transfer equipment
- Tips for optimizing process operations and managing turndown and rangeability
- Guidance on proper equipment selection, monitoring, and corrosion mitigation
- Maintenance techniques to reduce unplanned downtime
- Published between 2008 and 2015, providing time-tested engineering practices
- Includes “Facts at Your Fingertips” for quick reference on practical engineering issues
Audience
- Process and chemical engineers
- Plant operations and maintenance engineers
- Design engineers responsible for equipment selection and monitoring
- Reliability and maintenance specialists
- Technical managers in chemical, petroleum, pharmaceutical, and biotech industries
Articles Include
- Facts at Your Fingertips: Maximizing Fan Efficiency
- Facts at Your Fingertips: Pressure Measurement Considerations
- Project Optimization Through Engineering
- Advances in Process Temperature Measurement: Trends and Technologies
- Facts at Your Fingertips: Hot-Oil Heat-Tracing Systems
- Extremely Low-Temperature Systems
- New Measurement Practices for Cold Climates
- CPI Machinery: Commissioning, Startup and Piping
- Optimization of a Steam Network
- Design Underground Piping for Safety
- Evaluate Heat-Exchanger Tube-Rupture Scenarios Using Dynamic Simulation
- Bulk Solids: Optimizing Screw Conveyors
- Computerized Maintenance Management Systems For Effective Plant Performance
- Get the Most out of Vibration Analysis
- Facts at Your Fingertips: The Impact of Off-BEP Pump Operation
- Gas Turbines: Design and Operating Considerations
- Valve-Selection Best Practices
- Maximizing Performance In Size Reduction
- Dynamic Modeling for Steam System Control
- Industrial Control Systems Security: The Owner-Operator’s Challenge
- Combining the use of Rupture Discs with Relief Valves
- Filtration and Separation During Chemical Process Operations: Avoid Common Errors
- Measuring Exposures to Aerosols and Dust
- Mitigate Corrosion in Condensate-Return Systems
- Facts at Your Fingertips: Steel Corrosion
- Determining Friction Factors in Turbulent Pipe Flow
- Five Steps to Replacing Aged Heat-Transfer Fluid
- Optimal Cooling Systems for Coastal Plants
- Piping-System Leak Detection and Monitoring for the CPI
- Best Practices for the Control of Fuel Gas
- Managing Large Chemical Plant Startups
- Critical Connections Demand Certainty
- 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
- Optimizing Flare Operation Through Proper Design
- Facts at Your Fingertips: Industrial Adsorbents
- Improving the Operability of Process Plants
- Calculate NPSH with Confidence
- Applying CPI Temperature Sensors
- Specifying Elastomer Seals for Plastic Piping
- Mechanical Seals Update: Pharmaceutical and Food Applications
- Troubleshooting Tube-Deterioration Mechanisms in Direct-Fired Heaters
Details
Type: PDF
Pages: 233
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