Description
Discover the key to safety with 'A Quick Guide to Pressure Relief Valves (PRVs)'. This essential resource offers comprehensive insights into the critical role that pressure relief valves play in safeguarding equipment and personnel. Understanding how PRVs function is imperative for ensuring the safe handling of overpressure situations in any industrial setting. This guide systematically explains the essential design, testing, and maintenance procedures, offering engineers and technicians fundamental knowledge to operate these safety devices effectively.
Pressure Relief Valves are vital components in various applications, from clean services to corrosive environments, where they prevent failures due to excessive pressure buildup. This book highlights the importance of adhering to technical standards and statutory regulations that govern PRV design and testing. You’ll learn about various damage mechanisms and the necessity of routine inspections to uphold operational integrity.
Moreover, the guide introduces risk-based inspection protocols aimed at minimizing failure chances, ensuring safety remains a top priority. Perfect for professionals involved in pressure systems, this reference simplifies the complexities of PRV operation and encourages best practices for maintenance.
This Quick Guide to Pressure Relief Valves is your go-to handbook for mastering pressure safety and ensuring the reliability of protective devices. Equip yourself with the knowledge to mitigate risks and maintain a safe working environment.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled. Condition: BRAND NEW. ISBN: 9781860584572. Year: 2004. Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK). Pages: 160.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781860584572
Year: 2004
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 160
Description:
This indispensable book systematically guides you through Pressure
Relief Valves and how they work. It shows how protective
devices perform an important function in preventing the
accumulation of overpressure that can result in failure and the
uncontrolled release of stored energy. They are therefore
categorised as safety critical items of engineering equipment. The
book goes on to show that their design and testing is heavily
controlled by published technical standards because many
countries are covered by statutory legislation.
The content of the book shows that service damage and
degradation mechanisms are outlined for various applications
? PRVs and bursting discs are used in a wide variety of
process conditions, ranging from clean service to heavily corrosive
process fluids. This results in a correspondingly large number of
damage mechanisms that can prevent them from working if they are
not inspected and tested correctly. Risk based inspection
procedures are introduced in this book as a method of minimising
the chances of failure, and therefore maintaining high levels of
safety.
This Quick Guide to Pressure Relief Valves is intended to
provide easily accessible technical information for engineers and
technicians involved in the operation, testing and maintenance of
pressure systems. It also covers other types of protective devises
such as bursting discs.
Pressure Relief Valves are vital components in various applications, from clean services to corrosive environments, where they prevent failures due to excessive pressure buildup. This book highlights the importance of adhering to technical standards and statutory regulations that govern PRV design and testing. You’ll learn about various damage mechanisms and the necessity of routine inspections to uphold operational integrity.
Moreover, the guide introduces risk-based inspection protocols aimed at minimizing failure chances, ensuring safety remains a top priority. Perfect for professionals involved in pressure systems, this reference simplifies the complexities of PRV operation and encourages best practices for maintenance.
This Quick Guide to Pressure Relief Valves is your go-to handbook for mastering pressure safety and ensuring the reliability of protective devices. Equip yourself with the knowledge to mitigate risks and maintain a safe working environment.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled. Condition: BRAND NEW. ISBN: 9781860584572. Year: 2004. Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK). Pages: 160.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781860584572
Year: 2004
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 160
Description:
This indispensable book systematically guides you through Pressure
Relief Valves and how they work. It shows how protective
devices perform an important function in preventing the
accumulation of overpressure that can result in failure and the
uncontrolled release of stored energy. They are therefore
categorised as safety critical items of engineering equipment. The
book goes on to show that their design and testing is heavily
controlled by published technical standards because many
countries are covered by statutory legislation.
The content of the book shows that service damage and
degradation mechanisms are outlined for various applications
? PRVs and bursting discs are used in a wide variety of
process conditions, ranging from clean service to heavily corrosive
process fluids. This results in a correspondingly large number of
damage mechanisms that can prevent them from working if they are
not inspected and tested correctly. Risk based inspection
procedures are introduced in this book as a method of minimising
the chances of failure, and therefore maintaining high levels of
safety.
This Quick Guide to Pressure Relief Valves is intended to
provide easily accessible technical information for engineers and
technicians involved in the operation, testing and maintenance of
pressure systems. It also covers other types of protective devises
such as bursting discs.