Valve Essentials - electronic book

• Guidance on selecting, sizing, and installing control valves and positioners
• Practical tips for using pressure-relief valves with rupture disks
• Strategies for reducing fugitive emissions and improving operability
• Recommendations for material selection, plant revamps, and hygienic operations
• Field troubleshooting techniques and performance diagnostics

• 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

Articles Include

• Control Valves: An Evolution in Design
• Engineering for Plant Safety
• Avoiding Pressure Relief Problems
• Control Valve Position Sensors
• Control Valve Performance
• Using Rupture Disks with Pressure Relief Valves
• Advances in Valve Position Monitoring
• Managing Pressure while Pigging an Oil Pipeline
• Plant Revamps and Turnarounds: Some Lessons Learned
• Chemical Process Plants: Plan for Revamps
• Sizing Calculations for Pressure-Relief Valves
• The Relationship Between Materials Selection and Machining Processes
• Seven Tools for Project Success
• Rotary Valves in Pneumatic Conveying Systems
• Control Valve Selection: True Cost Savings are Available
• Valve-Selection Best Practices
• Vapor Depressurization: Concept and Implementation
• Combining the use of Rupture Discs with Relief Valves
• Modern Rupture Discs Support Increased Plant Capacity
• Field Troubleshooting 101 and How to Get the Job Done
• Optimizing Pressure Relief Systems
• Connecting Operations Personnel to Reliability Efforts
• Control Valve Diagnostics
• Anti-surge Valves for Dynamic Compressors
• Piping Design for Potentially Lethal Chemicals
• Large-Scale Fermentation Systems: Hygienic Design Principles
• Using Installed Gain to Improve Valve Selection
• Improving Control Valve Performance
• Emissions Regulations and Control
• Improving the Operability of Process Plants

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