Examining X-Ray Technology
Ray Spurgeon
Use X-ray inspection to see whether your product is contaminant-free and packaged properly.
Plant Operations
Choose the Right Electric Motors for Hazardous Locations
Uriah Van Amerom
Risks associated with operating an electric motor in hazardous areas range from production downtime to injury and death. Learn how to assess the operating environment and select the appropriate motor.
Follow These Best Practices in Steam System Management
David Jaber, Fred L. Hart, Gilbert A. McCoy
These tips on how to improve steam generation, distribution and recovery can help a plant to increase its steam system efficiency by as much as 20-30%.
Profiting From Your Pumping System
Aimee McKane , Vestal Tutterow, Don Casada
Identify ways to minimize the lifecycle costs of your pumping system
Rotating Equipment
Kazim Akhtar
Protect compressors and turbines by using piping strainers and following the line procedures outlined in this article.
Improve Combustion System Efficiency
Bill Axon
Follow these pointers for maximizing the performance of furnaces and burners.
Nitrogen: A Security Blanket for the Chemical Industry
Bill Carlson, Joe Dumoit, Paul Yanisko, Shiying Zheng
The benefits of nitrogen blanketing include improved process safety, better product quality, and longer equipment life. Here's how to achieve the desired safety or quality results while minimizing costs.
Prevent Fires in Thermal Fluid Systems
Jim Oetinger
Follow these design and operating guideines for a safe heat-transfer-fluid system.
Reduce Dust Explosions the Inherently Safer Way
A. G. Dastidar, Faisal I. Khan, P. R. Amyotte
This article is aimed at the development of a framework for dust explosion prevention and mitigation that explicitly incorporates the principles of inherent safety. As distinguished from engineered and procedural safety features, inherent safety...
Improving the Reliability of Mechanical Seals
Michael Huebner
With a better understanding of seals, their selection, material considerations, and operation requirements, users can greatly improve equipment reliability and reduce operating costs.
Cooling Towers, Part 2: Operating, Monitoring and Maintaining
Loraine Huchler
Process plants often use evaporative cooling towers to reject heat to the atmosphere.This article explains the basics of cooling tower operation.
Learn to Effectively Operate and Maintain Pumps
Daniel Kernan
Centrifugal pumps play a central role in chemical processing. Proper pump operation and maintenance can improve a facility's productivity, reduce downtime, and trim costs.
Solve the 5 Most-Common Pneumatic Conveying Problems
Paul E. Solt
Does your system suffer from plugging? Bottlenecking? Abrasion? Poor venting? Degraded product? Here are remedies.
Troubleshoot and Optimize Chiller Performance
Guy Levy
Use these guidelines to improve the performance of steam jet water chillers and find hidden savings in your plant.
Safely Handle Powdered Solids
Daniel E. Silva, Robert Zalosh, Russell Kahn, Stanley S. Grossel
Understand some of the accident scenarios that result in dust explosions, and follow these suggestions for preventing them.
Evaluating and Documenting Tower Performance
Daniel R. Summers
A good performance evaluation can lead to a significant improvement in column performance and establish a basis for future tower evaluations. <br>
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