The Safety Relief Valve Handbook

Contains vital technical and standards information relating to safety valves used in the process industry for positive pressure applications. This book explains technical issues of safety valve operation in detail, including identification of benefits and pitfalls of valve technologies.

Autorentext

Marc Hellemans holds a masters degree in electro mechanics and started end of the 70-ies working in the Flow Control business. More particular he specialized in Pressure Relief Devices in the process industry.

He ended his long corporate career with Tyco Flow Control in 2008, where he held various senior management positions: Vice President Sales & Marketing for the Engineered Products group (Flow Control & Automation). Managing Director for a manufacturing plant of a major brand pressure relief devices (Anderson Greenwood Crosby). He was part of the M&A team of Tyco Flow Control and realized various mergers & acquisitions and managed the restructurings.

Since 2008 he is managing partner at Vh Consult where he is working as a senior consultant in the field of overpressure protection in the process industry and where he is active worldwide in consulting both end users and pressure relief device manufacturers on overpressure protection. Conducting many trainings and lectures all over the world in particular the Middle East and South East Asia.
Author of the book: "The Safety Relief Valve Handbook? published by Elsevier and various articles on Flow Control, Pressure Relief and Marketing published by Kluwer.

Klappentext

The Safety Valve Handbook is a professional reference for design, process, instrumentation, plant and maintenance engineers who work with fluid flow and transportation systems in the process industries. It meets the need of engineers who have responsibilities for specifying, installing, inspecting or maintaining safety valves and flow control systems who need to understand the operation of safety valves, and the international codes that direct how they are used and maintained.

Inhalt

Valve basicsOverpressure protectionTerminologyCodes and StandardsASME and APIPEDNACEDesign FundamentalsInstallationSizingNoiseSafety Valve selectionMaintenance and testingCryogenic applicationsNon-Conformance of existing pressure relief systems