June 2019
Intermediate to advanced
656 pages
19h 24m
English
The learning objectives for this chapter are to:
Explain the importance of pressure protection.
Describe the relief design procedure.
Define terms related to relief design.
Specify relief design code requirements.
Identify relief types and characteristics.
Discuss relief installation practices.
Describe relief effluent handling systems.
Chemical processes operate over a wide range of pressures. These pressures are required to move materials through the process and to ensure that the unit operations work properly. The pressures utilized range from vacuum to atmospheric to hundreds or thousands of bars.
All equipment in a process cannot be designed to withstand the highest and lowest pressures—this is not practical ...
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