The latest methods for troubleshooting and maintaining process equipment
Applicable to a broad range of technicians and industries and fully updated throughout, A Working Guide to Process Equipment, Fourth Edition, explains how to diagnose, troubleshoot, and correct problems with chemical and petroleum refining process equipment. Nine new chapters cover:
- Tray design details
- Shell-and-tube heat exchanger design details
- Relief valve system design
- Vapor lock and exchanger flooding in steam systems
- Steam generation operating and design details
- Wastewater strippers
- Thermodynamics — how it applies to process equipment
- Centrifugal pumps — reducing seal and bearing failures
- Hand calculations for distillation towers
- Vapor — liquid equilibrium, absorption, and stripping calculations
Filled with examples and illustrations, this practical resource demonstrates how theory applies to solving real-world plant operation problems. Selected hand calculation methods are also provided.
