Pressure Safety Design Practices for Refinery and Chemical Operations

by Cheremisinoff

• ISBN13: 9780815514145
• ISBN10: 081551414X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1991-12-31
• Publisher: Elsevier Science

Summary

Pressure Safety Design Practices for Refinery and Chemical Operations is an introductory reference guide for pressure relieving operations in petroleum refineries and chemical plants. Petroleum refineries and their related chemical manufacturing facilities often operate at high pressures and/or at conditions that can result in excessive pressure conditions. Start-up and emergency shut-down operations, transient upset conditions, or catastrophic equipment failures, as well as plant process fires and plant wide utility failures, all require fail safe systems that will alleviate high process operating conditions in a safe and expedient manner.

Author Biography

Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff is currently the director of the Industrial Waste Management Program, a project funded by the United States Agency for International Development, providing assistance to the former Soviet Republic of Ukraine.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Petroleum Refinery Operations

Introduction

Refinery Operations

Types of Refineries

Fuel Products Refinery

A Fuels Products Refinery with Specialties

Catalytic Cracking

Introduction

The Process

Equipment

Fluid Solids Operations

Introduction Fluid Bed Processes

FIOR

Behavior of Fluidized Beds

Design Considerations for Fluid Bed Systems

Catalytic Reforming

Introduction

The Catalytic Reforming Processes

Powerforming Products

Chemical Changes in Powerforming

Major Powerforming Variables

Engineering Aspects

The Powerforming Process

Powerforming Process Selection

Fuels Hydrotreating

Introduction

The Hydrotreating Process

Applications of Hydrofining

Distillation and Light Ends Processing

Introduction

Refinery Equipment

Refinery Applications

Design of Equipment

Light Ends Processing Operations

Introduction

Light Ends Recovery

Compression

Gas Absorption

Light Ends Fractionation

Light Ends Purification

General Terminology for Light Ends

Recovery Processing Schemes

Light Ends Manufacturing Plants

Plant Safety and Pressure Relieving Operations

Introduction

Design Considerations and Causes of Overpressure

Determination of Contingencies and Relieving Rates

Application of Pressure Relief Devices

Valve Sizing and Specification Procedures

Pressure Relief Valve Installation

General Design Notes and Considerations

Design of Disposal Systems

Introduction

Equipment Venting and Drainage

Blowdown Drums

Flare Gas Design Practices

Introduction

Flare Types and Applications

Basic Design Considerations

Radiation and Spacing from Flares and Ignited Vents

Flare System Specification

Design for the Flare Header

Stack Design Overview

Index

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