Troubleshooting Process Operations

Description

This definitive bestselling guide for refinery operations and maintenance, delivers unparalleled information to engineers and technicians. Drawing on their training and experience, the author presents problems and troubleshooting techniques that are associated with specific processes, systems, and equipment, leading novice and practiced troubleshooters alike to the crux of malfunctions and failures. This Fourth Edition updates maintenance and design techniques, and adds seven new chapters with the latest information on turbines, motors, heat exchangers and environmentally friendly operations. Content: Front Matter • Introduction Prefaces • Table of Contents •Section 1. Specific Processes 1. Crude Distillation 2. Delayed Coking Cycles 3. Delayed Coking Process 4. Amine Regeneration and Scrubbing 5. Sulfur Recovery 6. Alkylation 7. Fluid Catalytic Cracking Units 8. FCCU Product Fractionation 9. Saving Energy at Reduced Feed Rates •Section 2. Process Equipment 10. Refrigeration Systems 11. Centrifugal Pumps 12. Distillation Towers 13. Vacuum Towers 14. Treating Liquid Hydrocarbons 15. Process Heaters 16. Water Coolers 17. Alarms and Trips •Section 3. Practical Problems 18. Additional Distillation Problems 19. Fouled Trays 20. Dehydrating Light-Ends Towers 21. Vapor-Liquid Separation 22. Refinery Metallurgy for Novices 23. Unusual Noises and Vibrations •Section 4. Process Equipment 24. Natural Gas Drying 25. Gas Compression - Centrifugal and Reciprocating •Section 5. The Process Engineer's Job 26. Suggestions for New Process Operating Engineers 27. Planning a Performance Test 28. Understanding Control Board Instruments 29. How to Make Field Measurements 30. Turbines, Expanders, and Variable Speed Motors 31. Forced Draft Air Coolers 32. Advances in Heat Exchanger Design 33. Positive Feedback Loops 34. Troubleshooting Control Loops 35. Texas City - B.P. Refinery Fire 36. Environmentally Friendly Process Concepts 37. The People Problem • Appendix Index