Plant Operability: Improving Reliability- Volume One - electronic book

• 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

• 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

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