PRESSURE RELIEF & PROCESS TECHNOLOGY
Process Engineering Support Focusing on Pressure Relief
Do your Pressure Relief System Installations Meet PSM Requirements?
Properly functioning relief systems are essential for protecting plant personnel and equipment from unexpected overpressure events which may result in equipment damage, loss of containment, or environmental damage, and also cause costly plant shutdowns or non-compliance fines.
Equity’s Process Technology Team can provide process engineering support using process simulation tools, particularly as it relates to pressure relief system (PRS) design. For mechanical integrity programs, pressure relief valves (PRVs) should be inspected upon installation, and at frequencies sufficient to maintain reliability. By maintaining safety critical pressure relieving systems and developing practical mitigation solutions, you will meet risk management targets, compliance requirements, and business objectives.
At Equity, our team of internationally recognized experts in PRS design, optimization, and installation will assess and evaluate new or existing systems to provide practical recommendations to maximize reliability and profitability.
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Improve operational safety
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Meet compliance requirements
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Pressure Relief & Process Technology Consulting Service Areas
Review pressure relieving system (PRS) documentation to objectively remove unnecessary conservativism to save money on large capital projects or equipment repairs. This step is instrumental in meeting or exceeding the latest Codes and Standards requirements.
Gap assessment of relief system documentation may identify improvement areas to meet PSM regulations. Our knowledge of the API standards helps by eliminating unnecessary and costly field modifications to address identified deficiencies.
Model changes to process or operations, troubleshoot issues in a process, model pressure relieving systems, or create heat and material balances. Process simulations help ensure changes are cost-effective, safe, and reliable.
Dynamic assessment of the potential for a tube rupture scenario in a heat exchanger and identification of the requirements for pressure relief protection. TRCAs provide insights about the conditions that could lead to a full-bore tube rupture within shell-tube-heat exchangers.
Proven methodology to help you proactively develop short- and long-term maintenance strategies to provide practical, actionable, and cost-effective recommendations for maintaining the effectiveness of offshore PRVs and heat exchangers.
Determination of which PRV installations will require costly modifications and which ones can be mitigated by future analysis to save time and money.
Leverage Equity’s cutting-edge proprietary technology to conduct comprehensive TBREAK transient analysis, providing our clients with the necessary insights and mitigation actions to safeguard the integrity of their heat exchangers.
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Pressure Relieving Systems Expertise
Our team of internationally recognized experts in pressure relief system design, optimization, and installation will provide practical recommendations to increase safety and maximize reliability.
Our experts:
- Have 100+ years of experience
- Have served as API 520 task force chairman for more than 25 years
- Pioneered development of FFS and RBI
- Are the primary authors on WRC 528 and WRC 562
- Serve as the lead investigators on API 579 and API 571
