Troubleshooting Process Plant Control

A Practical Guide to Avoiding and Correcting Mistakes

AvNorman P. Lieberman

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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A practical and engaging guide to running process controls in petrochemical plants and refineriesProcess control is an area of study dealing with controlling variables that emerge in process plants, such as chemical plants, wastewater purification plants, or refineries. Existing guides to process control are numerous, but they tend to be associated with control engineering, which is more mathematical and theoretical. There is an urgent need for a more straightforward and concrete guide for practical use in petrochemical plants and refineries.Troubleshooting Process Plant Control meets this need with a work dedicated to real-life solutions and problem solving. Rooted in real-world examples and the career experience of the author, it largely avoids complex mathematics in favor of practical, well-established process engineering principles. Now fully updated to reflect the latest best practices and developments in the field, it is indispensable for process controllers in active plants of all kinds.Readers of the third edition will also find: New chapters on alarm disabling, spectrometer use, and reducing CO2 emissionsAdditional novel examples throughoutGuidelines for using spectrometers to directly control reflux rates and steam flow to reboilersTroubleshooting Process Plant Control is ideal for practicing engineers and other technical professionals working in process facilities, as well as advanced students taking professional training courses in these fields.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-08-15
Mått:158 x 233 x 27 mm
Vikt:771 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:368
Upplaga:3
Förlag:John Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN:9781394262939

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Norman P. Lieberman is a practicing chemical engineer with 59 1/2 years of design, operation, and troubleshooting experience for refineries and petrochemical plants. He is well-known in the process industry for instructing technical process seminars, primarily for refineries and petrochemical plants.

Innehållsförteckning

ABOUT THE AUTHOR ixPREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION xiINTRODUCTION xiiiChapter 1 Learning from Experience 1Chapter 2 Process Control Parameter Measurement 11Chapter 3 Dependent and Independent Variables 25Chapter 4 Binary Distillation of Pure Components 33Chapter 5 Distillation Tower Pressure Control 41Chapter 6 Control of Aqueous Phase (Waste Water) Strippers 53Chapter 7 Pressure Control in Multicomponent Systems 59Chapter 8 Optimizing Fractionation Efficiency by Temperature Profile 67Chapter 9 Analyzer Process Control 75Chapter 10 Fired Heater Combustion Air Control 85Chapter 11 Using Existing Controls to Promote Energy Efficiency 97Chapter 12 Sizing Process Control Valves 105Chapter 13 Control Valve Position on Instrument Air Failure 113Chapter 14 Override and Split-Range Process Control 123Chapter 15 Vacuum System Pressure Control 129Chapter 16 Reciprocating Compressors 141Chapter 17 Centrifugal Compressor Surge versus Motor Over-Amping 149Chapter 18 Controlling Centrifugal Pumps 157Chapter 19 Steam Turbine Control 165Chapter 20 Steam and Condensate Control 177Chapter 21 Control of Process Reactions 189Chapter 22 Function of the Process Control Engineer 203Chapter 23 Steam Quality and Moisture Content 213Chapter 24 Level, Pressure, Flow, and Temperature Indication Methods 229Chapter 25 Alarm and Trip Design for Safe Plant Operations 245Chapter 26 Inverted Response of Process Parameters 255Chapter 27 Nonlinear Process Responses 263Chapter 28 Control Malfunction Stories 271Chapter 29 Level Indication Problems in Vessels 279Chapter 30 Calibration Specific Gravity for Level Control 285Chapter 31 Flow Orifice Plate Cavitation 289Chapter 32 Factors Causing Incorrect Process Parameter Measurements 293Chapter 33 Optimizing Controls to Reduce Emissions from SulfurRecovery Plants and Sour Water Strippers 299Chapter 34 Positive Pressure in Fired Heaters—Effect of Wind 305Chapter 35 A Lesson From Bhopal&mdashHazards of Ignoring Alarms 309ABOUT MY SEMINARS 313FURTHER READINGS ON TROUBLESHOOTING PROCESS CONTROLS 317THE NORM LIEBERMAN VIDEO LIBRARY OF TROUBLESHOOTING PROCESS OPERATIONS 319PROCESS CONTROL NOMENCLATURE USED IN PETROLEUM REFINERIES AND PETROCHEMICAL PLANTS 321INDEX 327