Ebook: Troubleshooting Process Operations

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