Description
This Chemical Engineering guidebook provides detailed engineering guidance for safeguarding chemical process operations, protecting personnel, plant assets, and the environment. Articles focus on managing pressure buildup, mitigating fire and explosion risks, handling finely powdered materials, and ensuring the safe selection and use of pumps, valves, and rupture disks. Recommendations for storage tank safety and emissions reduction are also included.
Features & Benefits
- Guidance for preventing pressure-relief and fire hazards
- Practical approaches to reducing dust and combustible powder risks
- Engineering recommendations for safe pump, valve, and rupture-disk operation
- Safe design and maintenance of chemical storage tanks
- Tips for monitoring flame hazards and improving process temperature measurements
- Recommendations for laboratory safety, including exhaust systems and safety checklists
Audience
- Process and mechanical engineers
- Plant operators and safety managers
- Project engineers and project managers
- Instrumentation and control engineers
- Maintenance and reliability engineers in the CPI
- Laboratory managers handling hazardous chemicals
Articles Include
- Avoiding Pressure-Relief Problems
- Static Electricity Discharge and Fire Prevention
- Gas Detection
- Engineering for Plant Safety
- Advances in Process Temperature Measurement: Trends and Technologies
- Avoiding Static Sparks in Hazardous Atmospheres
- Monitoring Flame Hazards in Chemical Plants
- Fire-Water Pumps for CPI
- Valve-Selection Best Practices
- Proper Sizing and Installation for Steam System Safety Valves
- Key Considerations in Specifying Control Valves
- Getting the Most From Severe-Service Valves
- Technologies for Throttling Valve Control
- Pump Safety: Flirting with Disaster
- Considering Fugitive Emissions During the Conceptual Design Stage
- Eye on Flare Systems
- Dust Control in the Chemical Process Industries
- Dust Explosions: Prevention & Protection
- Prevent Combustible Dust Explosions with Nitrogen Inerting
- Dust Management in Bulk-Material-Handling Operations
- Prevent Explosions During Transfer of Powders into Flammable Solvents
- Storage Tanks: Heating and Cooling System Design (KTK)
- Safety in Sulfuric Acid Storage Tanks
- Things You Need to Know Before Using an Explosion-Protection Technique
- Preventing Tank Corrosion
- Rupture Disks: Effectively Minimize Leaks and Emissions
- A Safety Checklist for Laboratories
- Selecting Laboratory Exhaust Systems
Details
Type: PDF
Pages: 145
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