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Surface Production Operations: Volume 5: Pressure Vessels, Heat Exchangers, and Aboveground Storage Tanks

Design, Construction, Inspection, and Testing

  • 1st Edition - July 22, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Maurice Stewart
  • Language: English

Covering both upstream and downstream oil and gas facilities, Surface Production Operations: Volume 5: Pressure Vessels, Heat Exchangers, and Aboveground Storage Tanks delivers… Read more

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Description

Covering both upstream and downstream oil and gas facilities, Surface Production Operations: Volume 5: Pressure Vessels, Heat Exchangers, and Aboveground Storage Tanks delivers a must-have reference guide to maximize efficiency, increase performance, prevent failures, and reduce costs. Every engineer and equipment manager in oil and gas must have complete knowledge of the systems and equipment involved for each project and facility, especially the checklist to keep up with maintenance and inspection--a topic just as critical as design and performance. Taking the guesswork out of searching through a variety of generalized standards and codes, Surface Production Operations: Volume 5: Pressure Vessels, Heat Exchangers, and Aboveground Storage Tanks furnishes all the critical regulatory information needed for oil and gas specific projects, saving time and money on maintaining the lifecycle of mechanical integrity of the oil and gas facility. Including troubleshooting techniques, calculations with examples, and several significant illustrations, this critical volume within the Surface Production Operations series is crucial on every oil and gas engineer’s bookshelf to solve day-to-day problems with common sense solutions.

Key features

  • Provides practical checklists and case studies for selection, installation, and maintenance on pressure vessels, heat transfer equipment, and storage tanks for all types of oil and gas facilities
  • Explains restoration techniques with detailed inspection and testing procedures, ensuring the equipment is revitalized to maximum life extension
  • Supplies comprehensive coverage on oil and gas specific American and European standards, codes and recommended practices, saving the engineer time searching for various publications

Readership

Mechanical, Chemical and Petroleum Engineers, Equipment Advisors and Specialists, Project Managers, Foreman, Superintendents, Operation Managers, and any other personnel involved in evaluating, selecting, designing, inspecting, and specifying process equipment

Table of contents

1. Overview of Process Equipment

Part I: Pressure Vessels

2. History and Organization of Pressure Vessel Codes

3. Selection of Vessel Specifications, Reports and Allowable Stresses

4. Materials Selection for Pressure Vessels

5. Mechanical Design of Pressure Vessels

6. Fabrication, Welding, and Inspection

7. In-Service Inspection by Non-Destructive Examination (NDE)

8. Repair, Alteration, and Re-Rating

Part II: Heat Transfer Equipment

9. Heat Transfer Theory

10. Heat Exchanger Configurations

11. Tubular Heat Exchangers

12. Tubular Heat Exchanger Inspection, Maintenance, and Repair

13. Tubular Exchanger Shop Work

14. Hair-Pin Double Pipe Exchanger Inspection

15. Inspection and Repair of Exchanger Parts

16. Inspection of Aerial Coolers

17. Maintenance, Inspection, and Inspecting Out-of-Service, Mothballed, and Used Exchangers

18. Test and Non-Destructive Examinations

Part III: Storage Tanks

19. General Information

20. Material Selection

21. Tank Design

22. Foundations

23. Fabrication and Construction

24. Inspection and Testing

25. Fire Protection

26. Venting and Vapor Relief

27. Maintenance and Repair

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: July 22, 2021
  • Language: English

About the author

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Maurice Stewart

Dr. Maurice Stewart, PE, a Registered Professional Engineer with over 40 years international consulting experience in project management; designing, selecting, specifying, installing, operating, optimizing, retrofitting and troubleshooting oil, water and gas handling, conditioning and processing facilities; designing plant piping and pipeline systems, heat exchangers, pressure vessels, process equipment, and pumping and compression systems; and leading hazards analysis reviews and risk assessments.
Affiliations and expertise
President, Stewart Training Company, USA

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