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Dry Gas Seal System Design Standards For Centrifugal Compressor Applications.
(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 2002)
Dry gas seals have been applied in process gas centrifugal compressors for more than 20 years. Over 80 percent of centrifugal gas compressors manufactured today are equipped with dry gas seals. Despite the 20-year trend ...
Troubleshooting Turbomachinery Using Startup And Coastdown Vibration Data.
(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 2002)
Accurate and meaningful condition monitoring is necessary to prevent both severe equipment damage and unnecessary shutdowns. One of the most important aspects of condition monitoring is the evaluation of startup and shutdown ...
A Practical Approach to Fire Hazard Analysis for Offshore Structures
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2002)
Offshore quantitative risk assessments (QRA) have historically been complex and costly. For large offshore design projects, the level of detail required for a detailed QRA is often not available until well into the detailed ...
Using Screening Test Data to Classify Reactive Chemicals Hazards
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2002)
The evaluation of reactive hazards is necessary for the safe working of the chemical process industries. An integral aspect of reactive hazard testing is the screening of chemicals to focus experimental efforts on the more ...
The Reactivity of Ethylene Oxide In Contact With Iron Oxide Fines as Measured by Adiabatic Calorimetry
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2002)
Samples of various iron oxides suspended above ethylene oxide in an adiabatic calorimeter exhibit exothermic activity at temperatures as low as room temperature. A 7-Fe203 sample was found to show the highest reactivity ...
3M QUANTITATIVE PROCESS RISK SCREENING TOOL
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2002)
The 3M Quantitative Process Risk Screening Tool (QPRS Tool) has been developed as a means of assisting 3M facilities globally in evaluating and managing the risks associated with processes that use or store hazardous ...
Prevention and Suppression of Metal Packing Fires
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2002)
Structured packing has been widely used because of large surface area that makes possible columns with high capacity and efficiency. The large surface area also contributes to fire hazards because of hydrocarbon deposits ...
Inherent Safety of Dikes Against Catastrophic Failure of Storage Tanks
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2002)
It is industry practice to provide passive containment (dikes) of storage tank equivalent to 110% of the capacity of the tank. This standard is sufficient for containment of small to moderate leaks. However, it is generally ...
Chemical Plant Security: National Security for the Chemical Industry
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2002)
Probabilistic Fault Tree Analysis
(Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, 2002)