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Pressure refief valve piping failures and fire: Ammonia synthesis loop
Author(s) -
Sutherland Lester E.,
Holman Michael,
Hansen Don
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
process safety progress
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.378
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1547-5913
pISSN - 1066-8527
DOI - 10.1002/prs.680180210
Subject(s) - piping , relief valve , safety valve , engineering , loop (graph theory) , ammonia production , control valves , forensic engineering , structural engineering , ammonia , nuclear engineering , mechanical engineering , chemistry , mathematics , combinatorics , organic chemistry
This paper describes a piping failure and fire resulting from inadequate support of an ammonia synthesis loop pressure relief valve, the non‐destructive testing and evaluation of fire‐impinged equipment, and the pipe failure mode. It also addresses support criteria for relief valves and other piping systems illustrating the importance of evaluating both static and dynamic loads.