Synopses & Reviews
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.
About the Author
Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff heads the Industrial Waste Management Program to eastern Ukraine under the United States Agency for International Development. He has nearly twenty years of industry and applied research experience in polymers, petrochemicals, and environmental and energy management in the heavy manufacturing and processing industries. Among his experience includes nearly thirteen years as product development manager and specialist for Exxon Chemical Company's elastomers product lines, and he actively provides consulting for private industry in the polymer technology areas. He has contributed extensively to the industrial press by having authored, co-authored or edited over 100 reference books and numerous articles. Dr. Cheremisinoff received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering from Clarkson College of Technology, Potsdam, New York.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to Petroleum Refinery Operations Introduction | Refinery Operations | Types of Refineries | Fuel Products Refinery | A Fuels Products Refinery with Specialties
2. Catalytic Cracking
Introduction | The Process | Equipment
3. Fluid Solids Operations
Introduction Fluid Bed Processes | FIOR | Behavior of Fluidized Beds | Design Considerations for Fluid Bed Systems
4. Catalytic Reforming
Introduction | The Catalytic Reforming Processes | Powerforming Products | Chemical Changes in Powerforming | Major Powerforming Variables | Engineering Aspects | The Powerforming Process | Powerforming Process Selection
5. Fuels Hydrotreating
Introduction | The Hydrotreating Process | Applications of Hydrofining
6. Distillation and Light Ends Processing
Introduction | Refinery Equipment | Refinery Applications | Design of Equipment
7. 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
8. 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
9. Design of Disposal Systems
Introduction | Equipment Venting and Drainage | Blowdown Drums
10. 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
11. Stack Design Overview
Index