Chapter 10. Other Equipment
Occasionally all the valves on a ring main would be closed and the pressure in a pump rise to danger point. No one appeared to realize that there was anything wrong with this state of affairs.—A U.K. gas works in 1916, described by Norman Swindin, Engineering without Wheels
Incidents involving storage tanks, stacks, pipelines, and pressure vessels have been described in Chapters 5, 6, and 9. This chapter describes some incidents involving other items of equipment.
10.1. Centrifuges
Many explosions, some serious, have occurred in centrifuges handling flammable solvents because the nitrogen blanketing was not effective.
In one case, a cover plate between the body of the centrifuge and a drive housing was left off. ...
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