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Overpressure Protection in the Process Industry

A Critical View

  • 1st Edition - January 17, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Marc Hellemans
  • Language: English

Overpressure Protection in the Process Industry: A Critical View provides a practical and pragmatic guidance for anyone dealing with overpressure protection in the process i… Read more

Description

Overpressure Protection in the Process Industry: A Critical View provides a practical and pragmatic guidance for anyone dealing with overpressure protection in the process industry. The book explains the background of complicated international codes and regulations, offering a pragmatic and practical approach on how these codes can be interpreted for specific cases. The book also gives a critical view on these codes and regulations and where they do or don't make sense, along with the challenges in some instances, including technical and practical argumentations.

Finally, the book covers specific problem areas and sizing methods when using safety relief devices as overpressure protection, such as how to handle installation, backpressures, blowdowns, the 3% rule, types of chatter and other destructive forces in relief devices.

Key features

  • Helps readers understand and apply codes and regulations in a pragmatic way
  • Provides sizing guidance on most overpressure scenarios and how to approach them in a pragmatic way
  • Creates awareness about the possible dangers of overpressure, especially in aging plants and how modifications on the process can jeopardize the overpressure protection
  • Addresses non-regulated types of overpressure protection in a process plant, such as the overpressure and vacuum protection of low-pressure storage tanks and tank blanketing

Readership

Process engineers, design engineers, process operators, OPCO management, safety engineers, Inspection agencies, engineering universities, regulators and regulating commissions in USA and Europe (ASME, API, EN/ISO); Engineering companies and consultants. pressure relief device manufacturers and their sales and their engineering departments. Processing industries in chemical, oil and gas, petrochemical, pulp and paper, power industry, food, pharmaceuticals; Students, teachers and researchers in process safety at engineering universities

Table of contents

1. Background to pressure relief design

2. Studies on overpressure relief systems

3. Critical view on designing pressure safety devices according to PED, EN/ISO, ASME, API

4. Keeping overpressure protection up to date

5. Management of change and pressure relief analysis

6. Code recommendations and sizing methods

7. Emergency depressurization valves versus pressure relief devices

8. Process pressures

9. Effects of backpressure on pressure relief devices

10. Chatter in safety relief valves – 3% rule

11. Installation of pressure relief devices

12. Overpressure scenario’s

13. RAGAGEP – recommended and generally accepted good engineering practices

14. Overpressure protection of low-pressure storage tank protection

15. Tank blanketing

16. Accidents analysis and case studies

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 24, 2022
  • Language: English

About the author

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Marc Hellemans

Marc Hellemans holds a masters degree in electro mechanics and started end of the 70-ies working in the Flow Control business. More particular he specialized in Pressure Relief Devices in the process industry. He ended his long corporate career with Tyco Flow Control in 2008, where he held various senior management positions: Vice President Sales & Marketing for the Engineered Products group (Flow Control & Automation). Managing Director for a manufacturing plant of a major brand pressure relief devices (Anderson Greenwood Crosby). He was part of the M&A team of Tyco Flow Control and realized various mergers & acquisitions and managed the restructurings. Since 2008 he is managing partner at Vh Consult where he is working as a senior consultant in the field of overpressure protection in the process industry and where he is active worldwide in consulting both end users and pressure relief device manufacturers on overpressure protection. Conducting many trainings and lectures all over the world in particular the Middle East and South East Asia. Author of the book: “The Safety Relief Valve Handbook” published by Elsevier and various articles on Flow Control, Pressure Relief and Marketing published by Kluwer.
Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Pressure Relief Specialist, Belgium; formerly Tyco Flow Control, US and UK

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