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, which covers the chemical, oil and gas, water, paper and pulp, food and bio products and energy sectors.
It meets the need of engineers who have responsibilities for specifying, installing, inspecting or maintaining safety valves and flow control systems.
It will also be an important reference for process safety and loss prevention engineers, environmental engineers, and plant and process designers who need to understand the operation of safety valves in a wider equipment or plant design context.
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Table of Contents
Valve basicsOverpressure protection
Terminology
Codes and Standards
ASME and API
PED
NACE
Design Fundamentals
Installation
Sizing
Noise
Safety Valve selection
Maintenance and testing
Cryogenic applications
Non-Conformance of existing pressure relief systems
Authors
Marc Hellemans Emeritus Pressure Relief Specialist, Belgium; formerly Tyco Flow Control, US and UK. 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.
