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Troubleshooting Process Plant Control

A Practical Guide to Avoiding and Correcting Mistakes

Lieberman, Norman P.

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3. Auflage August 2024
368 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-1-394-26293-9
John Wiley & Sons

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A practical and engaging guide to running process controls in petrochemical plants and refineries

Process 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 emissions
* Additional novel examples throughout
* Guidelines for using spectrometers to directly control reflux rates and steam flow to reboilers

Troubleshooting 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.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR ix

PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION xi

INTRODUCTION xiii

Chapter 1 Learning from Experience 1

Chapter 2 Process Control Parameter Measurement 11

Chapter 3 Dependent and Independent Variables 25

Chapter 4 Binary Distillation of Pure Components 33

Chapter 5 Distillation Tower Pressure Control 41

Chapter 6 Control of Aqueous Phase (Waste Water) Strippers 53

Chapter 7 Pressure Control in Multicomponent Systems 59

Chapter 8 Optimizing Fractionation Efficiency by Temperature Profile 67

Chapter 9 Analyzer Process Control 75

Chapter 10 Fired Heater Combustion Air Control 85

Chapter 11 Using Existing Controls to Promote Energy Efficiency 97

Chapter 12 Sizing Process Control Valves 105

Chapter 13 Control Valve Position on Instrument Air Failure 113

Chapter 14 Override and Split-Range Process Control 123

Chapter 15 Vacuum System Pressure Control 129

Chapter 16 Reciprocating Compressors 141

Chapter 17 Centrifugal Compressor Surge versus Motor Over-Amping 149

Chapter 18 Controlling Centrifugal Pumps 157

Chapter 19 Steam Turbine Control 165

Chapter 20 Steam and Condensate Control 177

Chapter 21 Control of Process Reactions 189

Chapter 22 Function of the Process Control Engineer 203

Chapter 23 Steam Quality and Moisture Content 213

Chapter 24 Level, Pressure, Flow, and Temperature Indication Methods 229

Chapter 25 Alarm and Trip Design for Safe Plant Operations 245

Chapter 26 Inverted Response of Process Parameters 255

Chapter 27 Nonlinear Process Responses 263

Chapter 28 Control Malfunction Stories 271

Chapter 29 Level Indication Problems in Vessels 279

Chapter 30 Calibration Specific Gravity for Level Control 285

Chapter 31 Flow Orifice Plate Cavitation 289

Chapter 32 Factors Causing Incorrect Process Parameter Measurements 293

Chapter 33 Optimizing Controls to Reduce Emissions from Sulfur

Recovery Plants and Sour Water Strippers 299

Chapter 34 Positive Pressure in Fired Heaters--Effect of Wind 305

Chapter 35 A Lesson From Bhopal&mdashHazards of Ignoring Alarms 309

ABOUT MY SEMINARS 313

FURTHER READINGS ON TROUBLESHOOTING PROCESS CONTROLS 317

THE NORM LIEBERMAN VIDEO LIBRARY OF TROUBLESHOOTING PROCESS OPERATIONS 319

INDEX 321
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.