Plant design and operations

Ian Sutton provides practical guidance on the design, operation, and maintenance of process facilities. The book is based on years of hands-on experience gathered during the design and operation of a wide range of facilities in many different types of industry including chemicals, refining, offshore...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Sutton, Ian (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford : Gulf Professional Publishing, [2017]
EditionSecond edition.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780128128848
0128128844
9780128128831
0128128836
Physical Description1 online resource : illustrations (some color)

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Plant Design and Operations
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1 Safety in Design
  • Introduction
  • Standard Examples
  • Terminology
  • Regulations, Standards, and Guidance
  • Regulatory Agencies (the United States)
  • Regulations (International)
  • Industry Standards
  • Health, Safety, and Environment
  • Process Safety Management
  • Risk Management
  • Units of Measurement
  • SI Units
  • Date Format
  • Engineering Drawings
  • Block Diagrams
  • Process Flow Diagrams
  • Piping and Instrument Diagrams
  • Symbols
  • Equipment numbering
  • Spec Breaks
  • Isometric Drawings
  • Electrical Single-Line Diagrams
  • Materials of Construction
  • Flammable and Combustible Materials
  • Fire Triangle
  • Flammable Range
  • Flash Point
  • Flammable/Combustible Liquids
  • Class I liquids
  • Class II liquids
  • Class III liquids
  • Ignition Sources
  • Lightning
  • Area Classification
  • IEC Code
  • Regulations and Standards
  • Temperature Code
  • Classification Plan
  • Fireproofing Insulation
  • Fireproofing Materials
  • Cryogenic Systems
  • Maintenance
  • 2 Siting and Layout
  • Introduction
  • Regulations and Standards
  • Siting
  • Layout
  • Layout Risk Analysis
  • Facility Orientation
  • Hazardous Areas
  • Blocks and Roads
  • Piping
  • Drainage Systems
  • Loading/Unloading Facilities
  • Tank trucks
  • Tank (rail) cars
  • Wharves and piers
  • Routine Access and Egress
  • Explosion Protection
  • Safe Areas
  • Emergency Escape
  • Manual Alarm Call Points
  • Process Isolation Valves
  • Firefighting
  • Emergency Showers and Eyewashes
  • Equipment Spacing
  • Pressure Vessels
  • Hydrocarbon Storage Tanks
  • Pumps
  • Compressors/Compressor Drivers
  • Heat Exchangers
  • Boilers
  • Fired Equipment
  • Air Intakes
  • Equipment Stacking
  • Piping and Valves
  • Piping
  • Valves
  • Flares and Vents
  • Buildings
  • Utilities
  • Stairways and Ladders.
  • Stairways
  • Dimensions
  • Landings
  • Load capacity
  • Stair rails
  • Stair treads
  • Ladders
  • Dimensions
  • Safety cages and gates
  • Rungs and stringers
  • Platforms
  • Guardrails, Handrails, and Toeboards
  • Ramps
  • 3 Equipment and Buildings
  • Introduction
  • Regulations and Standards
  • Pressure Vessels/Columns
  • Pressure Vessel Code
  • Fire Hazard
  • Maximum Allowable Working Pressure
  • Vessels Under Vacuum
  • Storage Vessels
  • Reflux Vessels
  • Manways
  • Nameplate/Documentation
  • Storage Tanks
  • Functions of Storage Tanks
  • Types of Storage Tank
  • Fixed Roof Tanks
  • Floating Roof Tanks
  • Plastic Tanks
  • Bund Walls/Berms
  • Tank Farms
  • Stairs and Platforms
  • Tank Design
  • Static electricity
  • Blanket/padding gas
  • Vents
  • Connections, nozzles, and manways
  • Overflow systems
  • Instrumentation
  • Temperature control
  • Tank Fires
  • Boilover/Foamover
  • Rag Layers
  • Bottoms Sediment and Water
  • Pumps
  • Types of Pump
  • Centrifugal pumps
  • Positive displacement pumps
  • Shutdown and Alarm Systems
  • Suction Piping
  • Minimum Flow Protection
  • Fire Protection
  • Sealless Pumps
  • Sparing
  • Pump Isolation
  • Vibration
  • Pump Casing
  • Seals and Packing
  • Compressors
  • API 618
  • Seals
  • Shutdown and Alarm Systems
  • Liquid Knockout
  • Relief Valves
  • Compressor Isolation
  • Surge Protection
  • Sparing Policy
  • Turbines
  • Gas Turbines
  • Steam Turbines
  • Heat Exchangers
  • Shell and Tube Exchangers
  • Tube/Shell Side
  • Tube Leakage
  • Air-Cooled Exchangers
  • Cooling Towers
  • Natural/Forced Draft
  • Safety
  • Fired Heaters
  • Heat Transfer Fluids
  • Air Preheaters
  • Safety
  • No process flow
  • Start-up/operations
  • Flares/Blowdown
  • Emergency Depressurization
  • Flaring
  • Types of flare
  • Flare design
  • Ground flares
  • Smokeless operation
  • Thermal Oxidizers
  • Boilers
  • Internal Combustion Engines.
  • Starter Systems
  • Intake, Exhaust, and Fuel Systems
  • Electrical Equipment
  • Transformers
  • Equipment Grounding
  • Ground-Fault Circuit Interrupters
  • Buildings
  • Administrative Buildings
  • Control Buildings
  • Control rooms
  • Computer rooms
  • Electrical equipment buildings/substations
  • Heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning
  • Process Buildings
  • Equipment buildings
  • Analyzer houses/operator laboratories
  • Warehouses and Workshops
  • Temporary Buildings
  • 4 Piping
  • Introduction
  • Regulations and Standards
  • Pipe Specifications
  • Pipe Sizing
  • Nominal Pipe Sizes
  • Pipe Schedule
  • Fluid Velocity
  • Materials
  • Steel
  • Other Metals
  • Cast iron
  • Aluminum
  • Nickel
  • Copper/brass
  • Polymers
  • Equipment
  • Underground Piping
  • Fittings
  • Welding
  • Threaded Piping
  • Expansion Loops/Compensators
  • Expansion loops
  • Axial joints
  • Bellows
  • Small Pipe Connections
  • Flanges
  • Gaskets
  • Blinds
  • Line Blinds
  • Spectacle Blinds
  • Insulation
  • Heat Tracing
  • Steam Tracing
  • Electrical Tracing
  • Flame Arrestors
  • Thermal Flame Arrestors
  • Water Seal Flame Arrestors
  • Velocity Flame Arrestors
  • Detonation Arrestors
  • Vortex Breakers
  • Hoses
  • 5 Valves
  • Introduction
  • Regulations and Standards
  • Valve Symbols
  • Block Valves
  • Gate Valves
  • Ball Valves
  • Butterfly Valves
  • Plug Valves
  • Needle Valves
  • Excess Flow Valves
  • Self-Closing Valves
  • Globe/Control Valves
  • Check (Non-return) Valves
  • Rotary Valves
  • Flangeless Valves
  • Emergency Isolation Valves
  • Valve Seat Materials
  • Valve Position
  • Steam Traps
  • Pressure Relief Devices
  • Causes of Overpressure
  • Pressure Safety Relief Valves
  • Pilot-Operated Pressure Relief Valves
  • Block Valves
  • Thermal Relief Valves
  • Rupture Disks
  • Below relief valves
  • Setting the pressure
  • Hatches/Doors
  • 6 Instrumentation and Control.
  • Introduction
  • Regulations and Standards
  • Operating/Safe Limits
  • Process Control
  • Distributed Control Systems
  • Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Systems
  • Safety Instrumented Systems
  • Safety Integrity Level
  • Testing and Inspection
  • High-Integrity Pressure Protection System
  • Fire and Gas Detection
  • Fire Detection
  • Flammable gas detection
  • Fire/flame detection
  • Heat detection
  • Fusible links
  • Smoke detection
  • Ultrasonic detectors
  • Closed-circuit television
  • Detection by persons
  • Toxic Gas Detection
  • Layout of Detectors
  • Portable Gas Detectors
  • Alarm Systems
  • Alarm Signaling
  • Response to Alarms
  • Response Matrix
  • Limitations
  • Alarm Flooding
  • 7 Transportation
  • Introduction
  • Terminology
  • Regulations and Standards
  • International Safety Guide
  • CAP 437
  • Offshore Helicopter Landing Areas
  • Tank Trucks
  • Loading/Unloading
  • Loading Racks
  • Static Electricity
  • Bonding
  • Switch Loading
  • Additives
  • Vacuum Trucks
  • Tank (Rail) Cars
  • Tank Car Markings
  • Pressure Vessels
  • Empty Cars
  • Graffiti
  • Marine Operations
  • Ships and Barges
  • Small Boats
  • Jetty Terminals
  • Personnel Transfer
  • Personnel net baskets
  • Rigid frame baskets
  • Cargo Baskets
  • Helicopters
  • Personnel movement
  • Helidecks
  • Pipelines
  • One Call
  • Pigging
  • Hazards
  • Pig launching
  • Pig receiving
  • Smart pigs
  • Slug Catchers
  • 8 Operations
  • Introduction
  • Regulations and Standards
  • Housekeeping
  • Storage and Handling of Hazardous Materials
  • Flammable Liquids
  • Oxidizing Agents
  • Catching Samples
  • Gas Storage Cylinders
  • Tank Operations
  • Filling and Emptying
  • Purging and Cleaning
  • Rotating Equipment
  • Emergency Response
  • Manual Emergency Shutdown
  • Evacuation, Escape, and Rescue
  • Personnel Tracking
  • Nonprocess Operations
  • Outside Storage
  • Coal and Coke Storage.
  • Drum Storage
  • Cranes and Rigging
  • Lifting Precautions
  • Wire Ropes, Chains, and Slings
  • Tag Lines
  • Start-Up
  • Commissioning
  • Operational Readiness Review
  • Start-Up
  • 9 Maintenance
  • Introduction
  • Regulations and Standards
  • Maintenance Management System
  • Types of Maintenance
  • Repair Maintenance
  • Condition-Based Maintenance
  • Scheduled Maintenance
  • Reliability-Centered Maintenance
  • Procurement
  • Spare Parts
  • Documentation
  • Factory Acceptance Tests
  • Maintenance Task Organization
  • Step 1-Plan the Work
  • Step 2-Conduct a JHA
  • Step 3-Prepare/Issue a Work Permit
  • Step 4-Shutdown and Isolate Equipment
  • Step 5-First Break
  • Step 6-Perform the Work
  • Step 7-Close Out the Work
  • Step 8-Handover to Operations
  • Equipment check
  • Inspected, tested, and documented
  • System completion
  • Operational readiness/prestartup safety review
  • Pressure Tests
  • Testing Procedure
  • Installing Blinds
  • Test Medium
  • Hydrostatic/liquid test
  • Pneumatic/gas
  • Tightness Test
  • Strength Test
  • Pressure Test Manual
  • Records
  • Online Cleaning and Repair
  • Corrosion
  • Cathodic Protection
  • Corrosion Under Insulation
  • CO2 Corrosion
  • Sulfide Stress Cracking
  • Controlling Corrosion
  • Simultaneous Operations
  • Managing SIMOPs
  • SIMOPs Matrix
  • Conducting SIMOPs
  • Kickoff meeting
  • Communication meetings
  • Closeout
  • 10 Energy Control
  • Introduction
  • Regulations and Standards
  • 29 CFR 1910.119
  • Rule
  • Guidance
  • API 2015
  • API 2026
  • API 2217A
  • ANSI Z117.1
  • NFPA 69
  • Example
  • Risk Management
  • Energy Control Program
  • Step 1-Job Hazards Analysis
  • Step 2-Work Permit
  • General Work Permits
  • Hot Work Permits
  • Confined Space Permits
  • Issuing the Permit
  • Multiple Work Permits
  • Changes in Conditions
  • Barrier Tape
  • Step 3-Vent, Drain, and Purge
  • Inert Gas.