Description
The quest to improve plant operability — in terms of maximizing asset reliability and minimizing equipment downtime — is a daily challenge for facility owners and operators in the chemical process industries (CPI).
This Chemical Engineering guidebook contains a collection of tutorial-style engineering articles covering a broad array of equipment types. These articles, drawn from the pages of Chemical Engineering magazine, provide practical guidance on the selection, operation and maintenance, and troubleshooting of workhorse equipment components such as pumps, valves, burners, boilers, compressors, filtration systems and more.
The guidebook focuses on maximizing the reliability of key plant utilities such as compressed-air production, steam generation and water treatment, and includes tips for successfully handling powders and bulk solids to avoid operating problems. Several articles provide guidance for proper material selection to improve process compatibility and reduce corrosion, and discuss techniques for monitoring equipment vibration and implementing comprehensive preventive maintenance programs.
Features & Benefits
- Practical guidance for equipment selection, operation, and troubleshooting
- Strategies to maximize reliability of key plant utilities
- Tips for powder and bulk solids handling to reduce flow stoppages
- Techniques for corrosion mitigation and material selection
- Insights on vibration monitoring and predictive maintenance for rotating equipment
- Approaches for optimizing compressed air, steam, and water systems
Audience
- Process engineers
- Maintenance and reliability engineers
- Operations managers
- Plant managers
- Equipment designers and project engineers
Articles
- Preventing Flow Stoppages in Powder Handling Processes
- Effective Agitator Operation and Maintenance
- Get the Most Out of an Owner-Contractor Alliance
- PVDF: A Fluoropolymer for Chemical Challenges
- A Primer on Compressor Design
- Control Engineering for Chemical Engineers
- Optimizing Analysis for Spray-Drying
- Maximizing Fan Efficiency
- CPI Machinery: Commissioning, Startup and Piping
- Optimization of a Steam Network
- Bulk Solids: Optimizing Screw Conveyors
- Improvements in DP Level Measurement
- Get the Most out of Vibration Analysis
- The Impact of Off-BEP Pump Operation
- Project Optimization Through Engineering
- Gas Turbines: Design and Operating Considerations
- INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEMS SECURITY: The Owner-Operator’s Challenge
- Steam Balancing: The First Step in Steam Optimization
- Mitigate Corrosion in Condensate-Return System
- Steel Corrosion
- Rotating Machines: Digital Technologies to Enable Predictive Maintenance
- Guidelines for Designing a Compressed Air System
- Determining Friction Factors in Turbulent Pipe Flow
- Five Steps to Replacing Aged Heat-Transfer Fluid
- Fired Heaters: Best Practices for the Control of Fuel Gas
- Managing Large Chemical Plant Startups
- Connecting Operations Personnel to Reliability Efforts
- Performance Trends of Top Performers in the CPI
- Precision Grouting: Setting the Foundation for Equipment Reliability
- Activated Sludge Process
- Critical Connections Demand Certainty
- Bulk Solids: Operating Direct-Contact Heat Exchangers
- Industrial Insulation Systems: Material Selection Factors
- Pneumatic Conveying: Optimal System Design, Operation and Control
- Pipe Insulation: Finding the Optimal Thickness
- Optimizing Flare Operation Through Proper Design
- Industrial Adsorbents
- Filtration Process Design and Optimization
- Smart Water-Management Strategies: The Time is Now
- Treating Boiler Feedwater for Reliable Operation
- Microbial Control in Cooling Water
- Troubleshooting Tube-Deterioration Mechanisms in Direct-Fired Heaters
Details
Type: PDF
Pages: 232
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