Pump/piping system

How did a flammable gas enter the pump/piping system Why did the explosion meter tests prove negative What was the fuel within the pump Jobs similar to this were repeated over the past 50 years. Why did it happen at this particular time ... 

The essential elements of liquid-handling systems are vessels (which are referred to as tanks when open to the atmosphere, and pressure vessels when the liquid surface is under pressure or vacuum), pumps, piping systems, and valves. 

Pulp and paper. Due to recycling of waste fluids and the need for greater equipment reliability and life span, titanium has become the standard material for drum washers, diffusion bleach washers, pumps, piping systems, and heat exchangers in the bleaching section of pulp and paper plants. This is particularly true for the equipment developed for chlorine dioxide bleaching systems. ... 

The measurement of a crude oil s viscosity at different temperatures is particularly important for the calculation of pressure drop in pipelines and refinery piping systems, as well as for the specification of pumps and exchangers. 

Following the invention of the hydrauHc press in 1795 (3), the use of hydrauHcs expanded rapidly during the nineteenth century. The weight-loaded accumulator, invented ca 1850, was used to store energy in hydrauHc systems. The elementary press circuit has several parts that are common to all hydrauHc systems a reservoir, a pump, piping, control valves, a motor, which in this case is a hydrauHc cylinder or ram, and the hydrauHc fluid. By ca 1860 hydrauHc presses were used for forging, and an adjustable-speed hydrauHc transmission was perfected in 1906 (2). The manufacture of hydrauHcahy actuated machines attained industrial importance after 1920. 

Typical apphcations for the nickel—copper alloys are in iadustrial plumbing and valves, marine equipment, petrochemical equipment, and feedwater heat exchangers (see Piping systems). The age-hardened alloys are used as pump shafts and impellers, valves, drill parts, and fasteners (see Pumps). 

Piping systems where pressure loss determines all or part of the pressure rise developed by pumps or compressors. In these systems the choice... 

The operation of system valves (also starting and shutdown of pumps) has a significant effect on the transient fluid pressures in the piping system because of the acceleration and deceleration of the fluid as it changes its velocity. As a simple example, the maximum head rise caused by the instantaneous closing of a valve is given by... 

The process controller is the master of the process-control system. It accepts a set point and other inputs and generates an output or outputs that it computes from a rule or set of rules that are part of its internal configuration. The controller output seiwes as an input to another controller or, more often, as an input to a final control element. The final control element is the device that affects the flow in the piping system of the process. The final control element seiwes as an interface between the process controller and the process. Control valves and adjustable speed pumps are the principal types discussed. 

Vacuum pump capacity is conventionally based on the total cycle and expressed as mVh-m" (cfi7i/ft ) of filter area measured at pump inlet conditions. Thus, the gas volumes per unit area passing during each dry period in the cycle are totaled and divided by the cycle time to arrive at the design air rate. Since air rate measurements in the test program are based on pressure drop across the cake and filter medium only, allowance must be made For additional expansion due to pressure drop within the filter and auxiliary piping system in arriving at vacuum pump inlet conditions. 

The Guidelines for Process Equipment Reliability Data with Data Tables covers a variety of components used in the chemical process industry, including electrical equipment, analyzers, instrumentation and controls, detectors, heat exchangers, piping systems, rotating equipment (pump, compressor, and fan), valves, and fire protection systems. 

The term pump head represents the net work performed on the liquid by the pump. It is eomposed of four parts. They are the statie head (Hs), or elevation the pre.ssure head (Hp) or the pre.ssures to be overcome the friction head (Hf) and velocity head (Hf), which are frictions and other resistances in the piping system. These heads are discussed in Chapter 8. The head formula is the following ... 

Although the concern is primarily for the response of the piping. system, the possibiliis of dynamic coupling with the containment structure should not be neglected. A concern is whether or not the secondary shield wall will withstand the dynamic interaction between the walls and the pump. This is answered by examining the mode shapes if there were no coupling between the walls and the pump. 

The natural frequency, co associated with the mode shape that exhibits a large displacement of the pump is compared with the fundamental frequency, of the wall. If co is much less than ru, then the dynamic interaction between the wall and the loop may be neglected, but the kinematic constraint on the pump imposed by the lateral bracing is retained. If nearly equals nr , the wall and steam supply systems are dynamically coupled. In which case it may be sufficient to model the wall as a one-mass system such that the fundamental frequency, Wo is retained. The mathematical model of the piping systems should be capable of revealing the response to the anticipated ground motion (dominantly translational). The mathematics necessary to analyze the damped spring mass. system become quite formidable, and the reader is referred to Berkowitz (1969),... 

Started. Since pump A and its associated pipework was off-line, the supervisor took the opportunity to carry out scheduled maintenance on the pressure relief valve (PRV) downstream of pump A. The valve had been malfunctioning, and although the work was not scheduled to be done for some weeks, the specialist contractor team who maintain the PRVs had a team available to carry out the work immediately. The supervisor therefore now had two teams working on the pump A systems the shift maintenance team working on the pump itself, and a two-man contractor team working on the PRV and its associated pipework. The PRV for pump A is not located immediately adjacent to the pump, and is above floor level, close to a number of other pipe runs. The following description represents a hypothetical sequence of events based on the inquiry findings, but embellished for the purposes of the case study. 

Tran smitten DiBerenti al 3.2.3.1 Piping Systems-Rtgid Plastic- Pumps-Diesel... 

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