Improving Plant Operability Focus on Reliability- Volume One - electronic book

• 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

• 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

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