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Handbook
Design and Use of Process Safety
Valves to ASME and International
Marc Hellemans
www.icheme.org
IChemE
heart of the process
AMSTERDAM
PARIS
ELSEVIER
BOSTON
SAN DIEGO
HEIDELBERG
SAN FRANCISCO
Bulterworth-Hcinemunn is an
LONDON
NEW YORK
SINGAPORE
SYDNEY
imprini ofElsevier
OXFORD
TOKYO
Contents
PREFACE
xi
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
xv
History
1.1
Acronyms, Abbreviations
Overpressure Protection
2.1
General Definition of
2.2
2.3
2.4
Causes of Overpressure
2.4.1
Blocked
2.4.2
Fire
2.4.3
Thermal
2.4.4
Runaway
2.4.5
Tube
an
SRV
discharge
case
expansion
17
reaction
rupture
in heat
18
exchangers
18
2.5
19
2.6
Overpressure
21
2.7
Relief Devices
24
Terminology
27
3.1
Testing
27
3.2
Type
of Devices
29
3.2.1
29
3.2.2
30
3.3
Dimensional Terms
3.4
3.5
31
Operational
Terms
33
Component
Terms
39
3.6
Accumulation, MAWP
3.6.1
CHAPTER 4
PED
versus
and
Design Pressure
42
ASME
46
53
4.1
4.2
56
-
Clarifications
56
4.2.1
57
4.2.2
Main
58
4.2.3
paragraph
safety
NACE
4.4
PED 97/23/EC
4.5
ATEX
4.5.1
CHAPTER 5
64
68
CEN ....71
75
European
ATEX Guidelines
Design Fundamentals
75
78
5.1
Construction Materials
79
5.2
79
5.2.1
Introduction
79
5.2.2
Functionality
80
5.2.3
General
85
5.2.4
89
5.2.5
Design differences
96
5.2.6
5.3
CHAPTER 6
relief valves
4.3
design
99
110
5.3.1
Introduction
110
5.3.2
Functionality
Ill
5.3.3
Types of POSRV
112
5.3.4
Summary
122
5.4
DIN Design
123
5.5
124
5.5.1
128
Summary
Installation
6.1
129
Calculating piping
6.1.2
Calculating
129
losses
139
outlet piping
144
CHAPTER 7
6.2
147
6.3
147
6.4
Temperature Transmission
151
6.5
Installation Guidelines
151
Bracing
158
7.1
Introduction
7.2
7.3
Steam
7.4
Steam Sizing
7.5
Liquid Sizing
169
7.5.1
170
7.6
158
Sizing
162
165
Combination devices
170
7.6.1
Some basics
172
7.6.2
174
7.6.3
CHAPTER 9
or
non-condensable gas
176
7.6.4
178
7.6.5
CHAPTER 8
167
181
Noise
190
8.1
Risk of Damage
8.2
Planning
8.3
8.4
Noise Calculations
201
8.5
Conclusions
204
Safety
to
Hearing
195
Accident
an
200
and
207
9.1
Seat
9.2
Blowdown
208
9.3
Service
Temperature
208
9.4
Weight
and/or
209
9.5
Backpressure
9.6
Orifice Size
9.7
Two-Phase Flow
212
9.8
Type of Fluid
213
9.9
Tightness
207
Height
209
Sizing
212
Reciprocating Compressors
213
9.10
Liquid
214
9.11
Materials
215
CHAPTER 10
10.2
217
Maintenance Frequency
and Cost
217
10.1.1
Introduction
217
10.1.2
Maintenance cost
218
10.1.3
Maintenance frequency
220
and Dirt
224
Transportation
10.2.1
Preinstallation
handling
and
testing of
10.3
Troubleshooting
10.3.1
10.4
10.5
CHAPTER 11
Seat
226
227
leakage
10.3.2
Chatter
229
10.3.3
Premature opening
231
10.3.4
232
10.3.5
232
10.3.6
232
10.3.7
Bellows failure
232
10.3.8
Springs
235
236
Testing
10.4.1
238
10.4.2
240
Maintenance Procedure
241
249
Cryogenic Applications
11.1
Thermal Relief
251
11.2
Process
251
11.2.1
cryogenic
11.2.2
11.2.3
11.3
11.4
CHAPTER 12
225
SRVs
on
service
Balanced bellows
252
spring-loaded
SRVs on
cryogenic
service
252
POSRV
cryogenic service
254
on
Service
256
11.3.1
The'submerged test'
256
11.3.2
The'boil-off test'
257
Conclusion
258
259
12.1
Summary
259
12.2
Materials
260
12.3
Design
261
12.4
Identification
262
of Overall Requirements
CHAPTER
13
12.5
263
12.6
263
13.2
13.3
13.4
Systems
265
269
13.1.1
External fire
269
13.1.2
Multiple
270
13.1.3
Blocked outlet
270
13.1.4
Thermal relief
270
13.1.5
Tube rupture
270
13.1.6
Others
271
13.1.7
271
scenarios
Undei/Oversized
Safety Valves
271
13.2.1
External fire
271
13.2.2
Blocked outlet
272
13.2.3
Tube rupture
272
13.2.4
Multiple
272
13.2.5
272
13.2.6
Others
272
13.2.7
Loss of
Improper
scenarios
condensing
273
Installation
273
13.3.1
Outlet pr
13.3.2
Inlet pressure
13.3.3
275
13.3.4
275
13.3.5
Others
275
What Can Go
es sure
Wrong
drop
drop
too
273
high
high
too
274
276
280
280
Compressibility
Ratio of
284
Factors
286
287
288
High Pressure
Steam, Kn
289
Capacity
Blowdown Pressures
Viscosity, Kv
290
Set and
292
Contents
Organizations
Generic
M
N
Sizing Program
Properties
of Common Gases
293
295
297
298
299
301
FURTHER READING
305
INDEX
307