Operation and troubleshooting

These two volumes are thorough, practical references for specifying, designing, operating, and troubleshooting surface production equipment. 

Yung, K. Y, and Wilcox, J. ECC Operation and Troubleshooting—Part 2. Akzo Catalyst Courier 15 (1992). 

Sadeghbeige, R. Fluid Catalytic Cracking Handbook Design, Operation and Troubleshooting of FCC Facilities. Houston Gulf Pubbshing Company, 2000. 

Sadeghbeigi, R. 1995. Fluid Catalytic Cracking Design, Operation, and Troubleshooting of FCC Facilities. Gulf Publishing Company, Houston, TX. 

Material balances are also useful tools for the study of plant operation and troubleshooting. They can be used to check performance against design, to extend the often limited data available from the plant instrumentation, to check instrument calibrations, and to locate sources of material loss. Material balances are essential to obtaining high-quality data from laboratory or pilot plants. 

Reboilers, condensers, and operation difficulties amount to about half of the remaining problems. Thus three out of four incidents are caused by either these or the factors previously mentioned. Familiarity with these problems, therefore, is of great importance to persons involved in distillation and absorption operation and troubleshooting. For this reason, these topics are also highlighted in this book. 

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