Avoiding Pressure Relief Problems
Pressure relief valves and rupture disks are critical safety devices for protecting personnel and processing equipment from overpressurization situations. Presented here are several engineering...
View ArticleOverpressure Protection: Consider Low Temperature Effects in Design
In designing and sizing relief-device and effluent-handling systems, one commonly overlooked aspect of the performance is examining the potential for low temperatures that can cause the components of...
View ArticleThis rupture disc line extends pressure capabilities
The Atlas line of rupture discs extends the pressure capabilities of products made with this company’s G2 technology. The term G2...
View ArticleThese rupture discs have higher-pressure capability
The Atlas line of rupture discs is manufactured using this company’s G2 technology for making rupture discs. The patented technology is capable of making rupture discs without the use of hard-score...
View ArticleA new design for this explosion protection assembly
This company has announced a new design for its HRD Lockout Assembly. This explosion-protection product is a mechanical barrier used to prevent an accidental discharge of an explosion-suppression...
View ArticleThe CV-S explosion vent now has a rectangular shape
This company has released the rectangular version of its popular CV-S Explosion vent. Specifically designed to provide non-fragmenting opening when protection industrial process equipment, the...
View ArticleAvoiding Runaway Reactions
This article originally appeared in CE in June, 2002. It discusses using risk analysis as a meaningful and appropriate safety measure in the early design stages of chemical process operations....
View ArticleRunaway Reactions: Ignore the Chemistry at Your Peril
This article, which originally appeared in August, 2000, addresses avoiding uncontrolled-exothermic, or "runaway" reactions...
View ArticleVapor Depressurization: Concept and Implementation Hitesh Pandya
Pressure-relief systems are widely used in chemical process operations. This article provides guidance for designing, operating and maintaining such critical systems...
View ArticleFocus on Explosion Protection
This flowrate totalizer has an explosion-proof enclosure Precision Digital The PD6830 ProtEX-RTP Pulse Input Rate/Totalizer has a rugged, explosion-proof, NEMA 4X enclosure and is designed for the...
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