Plant Operations

Optimal Automated Process Fault Analysis

January, 2013
With this book as their guide, readers have a powerful new tool for ensuring the safety and reliability of any chemical processing system. It details a tested and proven strategy to develop optimal automated process fault analyzers.

Pipe Flow: A Practical and Comprehensive Guide

May, 2012
Pipe Flow provides the information required to design and analyze the piping systems needed to support a broad range of industrial operations, distribution systems, and power plants.

Furnace Stories

Apr 5, 2012
Ken Beasley
The cracking furnace is the heart of the ethylene plant, consuming the most energy, adding the most value and with the potential to cause the most damage. Every aspect of the furnace is critical from the specifications through design, construction and including commissioning, start-up, operations,...

Combustion of Mixtures: A Modified IFC Approach

Apr 2, 2012
Gary Mueller
While most studies on flares have been done with single hydrocarbon fuels or binary mixtures, the reality of most industrial flares is that they see different mixtures of many gases. Over the past 5 years the International Flare Consortium (IFC) has been conducting research on just this issue. In a...

Industrial Experience in Handling Cleaning of Crude Refinery Preheat Trains

Apr 2, 2012
Simon J. Pugh
Industrial Experience in Handling Cleaning of Crude Refinery Preheat Trains 1,2 Ishiyama E.M., 1 Pugh S.J. and 2 Wilson D.I. 1 IHS ESDU, Houndsditch, London EC3A 7BX, UK 2 Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, New Museums Site, Cambridge CB2 3RA, UK Abstract...

Explosion Protection with In-Line Flame Arresters

AIChE Webinar
Feb 29, 2012
Michael Davies

This seminar educates participants on explosion protection concepts regarding in-line flame arresters. It begins by demonstrating flame arrester function with short video sequences.

Improving Gas Condensate Reservoir Productivity

Oct 18, 2011
Adel Elsharkawy
Gas condensate reservoirs experience great losses in productivity as the reservoir pressure drops below the dew point pressure due to formation and accumulation of liquid condensate around the well bore and subsequent reduction of gas relative permeability. Several methods have been proposed to...

Principles and Case Studies of Simultaneous Design

September, 2011
There are many comprehensive design books, but none of them provide a significant number of detailed economic design examples of typically complex industrial processes. Most of the current design books cover a wide variety of topics associated with process design. In addition to discussing...

Introduction to Pinch Analysis

AIChE Webinar
Apr 27, 2011
Alan Rossiter

This webinar introduces the basic principles and tools of pinch analysis and shows how they can be applied in real-world applications.

Pump Wisdom: Problem Solving for Operators and Specialists

April, 2011
An accessible guide to the main reasons pumps fail—and what can be done about it Workhorses in many different industries, including the oil industry, water industry, chemical industry, food industry, and pharmaceutical industry to name a few, pumps are a vital contributor to maintaining and...

Problem Solving for Process Operators and Specialists

April, 2011
This book provides methods to train process operators to solve challenging problems. The book is split into two parts. The first part consists of two parts; first developing a daily monitoring system and second providing a structured 5 step problem solving approach that combines cause and effect...

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