Overpressure Protection in the Process Industry

Overpressure Protection in the Process Industry provides a practical and pragmatic guidance for everyone dealing with overpressure protection in the process industry in all its aspects. The book explains the background of the many complicated international codes and regulations. This book offers a pragmatic and practical approach on how the codes – that, generally, do not address specific industries or applications outside the oil & gas industry – can be interpreted for specific cases and provides practical solutions. It also gives a critical view on these codes and regulations and where they make sense or not and even challenges them in some instances with some technical and practical argumentations. It addresses the overpressure protection design philosophy while complying in a pragmatic way with those codes and regulations. Overpressure Protection in the Process Industry also provides guidance on how to keep overpressure installations in processes up to date and offers ideas on lifecycle management and the management of change. The book compares and recommends on the different types of overpressure protection and the different layers thereof and includes practical check lists for the proper functionality of the overpressure protection. Finally, the book covers specific problem area’s 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. Helps understand and apply codes and regulations in a pragmatic wayProvides sizing guidance on most overpressure scenario’s and how to approach them in a pragmatic wayCreates awareness about the possible dangers of overpressure especially in aging plants and how modifications on the process can jeopardize the overpressure protectionAddresses non-regulated types of overpressure protection in a process plant such as the overpressure and vacuum protection of low-pressure storage tanks and tank blanketingIncludes numerous graphics, check lists and many practical examples making it a practical working tool for process engineers and other personnel involved in the process industryHelps make better decisions to select, and modify pressure relief device