Plant Operability: Improving Safety - Volume Two - electronic book

• Strategies for preventing fires, dust explosions, and chemical leaks
• Best practices for handling heat-transfer fluids and liquefied gases
• Guidance on rupture disks, relief valves, and emergency shutdown valves
• Corrosion monitoring and pipeline safety measures
• Insights on mechanical seals and fugitive emissions reduction
• Engineering approaches for safer and more reliable plant operations

• Process safety engineers
• Reliability engineers
• Operations managers
• Plant maintenance engineers
• Chemical process engineers

Articles

• A Safety-Centered Approach To Industrial Lighting
• Designing Safer Process Plants
• A Safety Checklist For Laboratories
• Advanced Control Methods for Combustion
• Hot-Oil Heat-Tracing Systems
• Engineering for Plant Safety
• Maintaining Heat-Transfer-Fluid Quality
• Integrity of Aging Assets: Using Corrosion Data to Stave Off Extinction
• Chemical Protective Clothing
• Static Electricity Discharge and Fire Prevention
• Liquefied-Industrial-Gas Safety
• Heat Transfer Fluid Leaks: Break the Fire Triangle
• Clearing the Air About Respiratory Protection
• Fire-Water Pumps for CPI Facilities
• Common Mistakes When Conducting a HAZOP and How to Avoid Them
• Pump Safety: Flirting with Disaster
• Eye-and-Face Personal Protective Equipment
• Flare Consolidation Considerations
• Finding the Right Gloves to Fit the Application
• Dust Control in the Chemical Processing Industries
• Things You Need to Know Before Using an Explosion-Protection Technique
• The Integral Role of Waste Management in Capital Projects
• Rupture Discs: Effectively Minimize Leaks and Emissions
• Avoid Safety Pitfalls During Plant Expansion and Modification
• Combining the Use of Rupture Discs with Relief Valves
• Why Bad Things Happen to Good Steam Equipment
• Rotating Machinery: What You Should Know About Operational Problems
• Chemical Protective Clothing (ISO 16602)
• Piping-System Leak Detection and Monitoring for the CPI
• Anti-surge Valves for Dynamic Compressors
• Dust Explosions: Prevention & Protection
• Burner Inspection and Maintenance
• Critical Connections Demand Certainty
• Safety in Sulfuric Acid Storage Tanks
• Emergency Shutdown Valves: A Functional Safety Approach to Selection
• Preventing Dust Explosions
• The Next Step Change in Process Safety
• Coupler Technologies for Secure Chemical Handling
• Avoid Common Mistakes When Specifying Burner Management Systems
• Reduce Risk and Cost with a Lifecycle Approach to Process Safety
• Calculate NPSH with Confidence
• Heat-Transfer Fluid Selection
• An Overview of Vacuum System Design
• Selecting Laboratory Exhaust Systems
• Mechanical Seals Update: Pharmaceutical and Food Applications

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