Emergency Relief System Design

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-394-28641-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Buch, Englisch, 864 Seiten

Comprehensive single-volume reference on pressure safety aspects for emergency relief system design

Condensing over fifty years of firsthand experience in chemistry, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, fabrication, and process safety, Emergency Pressure Relief System Design presents a coherent synthesis of collections of many pressure safety aspects for emergency relief system design.

The chapters begin with an introduction to Design Institute for Emergency Relief Systems (DIERS) technology and terminology. The book goes on to cover overpressure protection devices, Maximum Safe Operating Pressure (MAWP), piping class, inherently safer design, contingency analysis, vapor-liquid disengagement, guidelines for handling flammable materials, mechanical aspects of low-pressure tanks, reactive and thermally unstable materials, safety instrumented system, and dispersion analysis. Numerous appendices cover fundamentals of plant safety and environmental considerations that complement materials in the main chapters, as well as up-to-date detailing codes and standards.

This book also explores the history and evolution of the industry, helping readers understand not only how to protect personnel and equipment, but also why certain guidelines are in place, drawing on past examples of failure, such as at a Sonat Exploration facility which resulted in four deaths.

Emergency Pressure Relief System Design includes information on: - Codes like ASME, federal regulations such as 40CFR68, standards such as NFPA, and guidelines like API and RAGAGEP
- Design considerations for thermoplastic popping in industrial and domestic applications
- Overpressure protection devices including flame arresters and High-Temperature Hydrogen Attacks (HTHAs)
- Ten essential contingencies, including the procedure of sizing a relief device required by a specific scenario such as a tsunami or cyber attack
- Toxicology and various formulae for determining the ground level concentration of toxicants

Emergency Pressure Relief System Design is an essential reference for many different groups of professionals, including engineers, chemists, and physicists new to the field of process safety as well as those working in production support in the fields of petrochemicals, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and food.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Das, Dilip K.

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Chemische Verfahrenstechnik
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technische Zuverlässigkeit, Sicherheitstechnik
• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Chemie Allgemein Toxikologie, Gefahrstoffe, Sicherheit in der Chemie
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Maschinenbau Konstruktionslehre, Bauelemente, CAD

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Author xvii
Preface xxi

1 Introduction to ERS Design 1
2 Terminology, Codes, Standards, Guidelines, and Plant Safety Fundamentals 7
3 Understanding MAWP and Inherently Safer Design 87
4 Flame Arresters, Joule–Thomson Effect, and PRV Stability 99
5 Contingency Analysis 195
6 Vapor–Liquid Disengagement 213
7 Handling Flammable and Combustible Materials 221
8 Low-Pressure Tanks and Low-Pressure Vessels 243
9 Reactive and Thermally Unstable Material 267
10 Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) 351
11 Dispersion Analysis 377

Appendices
Appendix A Units and Dimensions 385
Appendix B Material Balance 407
Appendix C Energy Balance and Thermodynamics 455
Appendix D Fluid Flow Fundamentals 503
Appendix E Heat Transfer 581
Appendix F Membrane Separation 649
Appendix G Distillation 657
Appendix H Absorption and Emergency Scrubbing 705
Appendix I Process Control 723
Appendix J Corrosion and Material of Construction, High-Temperature Hydrogen Attack (HTHA) 745
Appendix K Equipment Design 759
Appendix L Engineering Economics 793
Appendix M Codes, Standards, and Safety-Related Acronyms 815
Appendix N Introduction 821

Index 833

Über Autor(innen)

DILIP K. DAS, MS, P.E., FAIChE, is Principal Consultant, Design And Safety, LLC, where he is consulted in emergency relief system design and is currently retained as a non-employee Principal Consultant as needed by ioMosaic Corporation. He previously held Emergency Relief System Design and Process Engineering positions at Bayer CropScience, Ciba-Geigy, Rhone-Poulenc, Stauffer Chemicals, C F Braun, APV Engineering, and Kuljian Corporation. He is a past chair and director of AIChE’s Kansas City chapter.