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Gathering tales of process equipment malfunctions. Invariably returning to our home in New Orleans to renew our time and life together. Citation EXPORT Norman P. Lieberman: Process Equipment Malfunctions: Techniques to Identify and Correct Plant Problems. Dedication, Chapter (McGraw-Hill Professional, 2011), AccessEngineering © 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies. All rights reserved. Customer Privacy Notice. Any use is subject to the Terms of Use, Privacy Notice and copyright information. For further information about this site, contact us. Designed and built using SIPP2 by Semantico. This product incorporates part of the open source Protégé system. Protégé is available at http://protege.stanford.edu// About the Author B. About the Author Norman P. Lieberman is a chemical engineer with 46 years of experience in process plant operation, design, and field troubleshooting. An independent consultant, he troubleshoots oil refinery and chemical plant process problems and prepares revamp process designs. Mr. Lieberman teaches 20 to 25 seminars a year on "Troubleshooting Process Plant Operations," and this book is based on his long experience in field troubleshooting refinery and process plant problems. Citation EXPORT Norman P. Lieberman: Process Equipment Malfunctions: Techniques to Identify and Correct Plant Problems. About the Author, Chapter (McGraw-Hill Professional, 2011), AccessEngineering © 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies. All rights reserved. Customer Privacy Notice. Any use is subject to the Terms of Use, Privacy Notice and copyright information. For further information about this site, contact us. Designed and built using SIPP2 by Semantico. This product incorporates part of the open source Protégé system. Protégé is available at http://protege.stanford.edu// Preface C. Preface The training provided to the process operator and to the chemical or process engineer often does not seem to apply in the plant. It's as if both formal education and training are irrelevant to actual process plant problems. The difficulty lies in an implied assumption made by instructors, professors, textbooks, and training manuals that the equipment is working correctly and within its normal operating range. But in the real world, the process engineer and operating supervisor do not concern themselves with properly performing equipment. It's the malfunctioning pumps, control valves, pressure transmitters, compressors, fractionators, and fired heaters that occupy their attention. To identify a malfunction, the technician must first understand the normal function of that equipment. Such understanding may come from training or experience. In this book, I've assumed that you already understand the basic operating principles of steam reboilers, air coolers, distillation trays, reciprocating compressors, knock-out drums, and heat exchangers. A reasonably intelligent person can be taught to design, monitor, or operate correctly functioning process plants. Competent maintenance personnel can efficiently execute equipment repairs. But to identify and troubleshoot equipment malfunctions requires a different and higher level of understanding and analytical reasoning. In that sense, this text presents an advanced type of training not available in universities or operator training programs. The information and ideas I've presented are based on my own 46 years of field experience. If I have not seen it myself, I have not included it in this book. The examples are drawn from my work in oil refineries and, to a lesser extent, petrochemical plants, LNG facilities, and gas field production. If you have an erratic bottoms level, or a flooding fractionator, or a surging steam jet, this is the text that can help you, provided that you're willing to go out into that noisy, hot, hostile, confusing, and evil-smelling world on the other side of your office door. And don't forget your wrench, infrared surface temperature gun, screwed fittings, and pressure gauge. C.1. Disclaimer While all my stories are true and related in a technically correct sequence of details, I have often forgotten where they occurred. Thus, references to specific companies and locations are meaningless and should be regarded as pure fiction. I have written mainly from my personal experience. On the odd occasion where I refer to the technical literature, I have so noted. Other than references to myself and my family, all other references to individuals are also totally fictional. That is, the names have been changed to protect the guilty. C.2. Note on Term Definition and Glossary There are a large number of terms that are in common use in the process industry but have no particular meaning in the larger world. When I use terms that I imagine the novice process technician has not been exposed to, I have boldfaced the term at least once. Then, in the glossary, I have defined that term. Particularly when you work with older operators or maintenance personnel onsite, communication can be a big problem for the new man or woman. I have also tried to define such terms, in less detail, in the text, but not every time I use them. So, when in doubt, consult the glossary. C.3. Other Texts by Author To an extent, more-detailed descriptions of some of the examples cited in this book are contained in other books I have authored. I have referenced such examples throughout this text. A Working Guide to Process Equipment , 3rd ed., McGraw-Hill, 2009 (with Elizabeth Lieberman). Process Engineering for a Small Planet , Wiley, 2010. Troubleshooting Process Operations , 4th ed., PennWell, 2009. Troubleshooting Natural Gas Processing , PennWell, 1987. Troubleshooting Process Plant Control , Wiley, 2008. Process Engineering for Reliable Operations , 2nd ed., Gulf, 1995. Troubleshooting Refinery Processes , PennWell, 1980. Citation EXPORT Norman P. Lieberman: Process Equipment Malfunctions: Techniques to Identify and Correct Plant Problems. Preface, Chapter (McGraw-Hill Professional, 2011), AccessEngineering © 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies. All rights reserved. Customer Privacy Notice. Any use is subject to the Terms of Use, Privacy Notice and copyright information. For further information about this site, contact us. Designed and built using SIPP2 by Semantico. This product incorporates part of the open source Protégé system. Protégé is available at http://protege.stanford.edu// Acknowledgments D. Acknowledgments Irene Hebert—my daughter, who assembled and corrected this manuscript into a publishable form. Roy Williams—who drafted the process figures from my scribbled penciled sketches. Liz Lieberman—my wife, fellow chemical engineer, and coworker, who reviewed the final draft. Just a few of my colleagues who have helped me over the years: Dale Wilborn, Ken Block, Mark Allen, Mike Angela, Henry Kister, Scot Golden, Gerry Carlin, Joe Gurawitz, Gerry Obluda, Cedric Charles, Terry Henderson, Nelson English, Prasnanta Kumar, Dennis Schumede, Jean Paul Mauleon, Robert Haugen, Andries Burger, Tariq Malik, Steve Hill, Jim McQuire, Archie Elam, Mike Nodier, Oscar Wyatt, Jack Stanley, Ken Rickter, Heinz Block, Telroy Morgan, Joe and Jim Deprisco, Vaidas Dirgelas, Trung Quan, Probkar Reddy, Charlie Schultz, Richard Doss, Bill Hurt, Dan Summers, Raj Malik, Ohad Rotan, Sandy Lani, Paul Schrader, Janet Wilson, Joe Petrocelli, Bobby Felts, Henry Zipperian, Greg Hevron, and Tom Varadi. Citation EXPORT Norman P. Lieberman: Process Equipment Malfunctions: Techniques to Identify and Correct Plant Problems. Acknowledgments, Chapter (McGraw-Hill Professional, 2011), AccessEngineering © 2012 The McGraw-Hill Companies. All rights reserved. Customer Privacy Notice. Any use is subject to the Terms of Use, Privacy Notice and copyright information. For further information about this site, contact us. Designed and built using SIPP2 by Semantico. This product incorporates part of the open source Protégé system. Protégé is available at http://protege.stanford.edu//