Chapter 24. Process Troubleshooting and Debottlenecking
What You Will Learn
• What troubleshooting and debottlenecking are
• Strategies for troubleshooting and debottlenecking
Imagine that you are responsible for a chemical process unit. The pressure in a chemical reactor begins to increase. You are concerned about material failure and explosion. What do you do? For a case such as this with potential catastrophic consequences, it may be necessary to shut the process down. However, process shut-down and start-up are very costly, and if a safe alternative were available, you would certainly want to consider it as an option. In another scenario, what would you do if it had been observed that the purity of product from your unit had been decreasing ...
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