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Hi All, I've been asked to undertake a study for ignition prevention. We have a newly installed vent tower (natural gas)which has during recent storms been ignited because of lightning strikes. The closest we can get to the top is 20M where we have a working platform and a potential base of...

Nothing special about the Y, inlets and outlet about 4". I am tending to agree with your first post about first to establish wins.

Hope someone can help here. We recently did a flow test on a drain line by connecting it to a tanker filled with water. The tanker had 2 compartments each open to atmosphere and each with its own control valve. A hose was connected to each of the compartment and rolled out down a hill to a 'Y'...

The tanks store hydrocarbon, they have floating roofs as far as I am aware. The client suggests that they never empty a tank completely? so floating is not an issue. Now that the client has rejested the pumped solution for removing storm water, we will be trebling the drianage time thus storing...

I've just been involved in a FEED study for the treatment of storm water released from bunded areas. The final report recommended a pumped solution that is: Water would be gravity fed to a pump and then passed through a parallel plate separator before going to public drain. The pump offered...

My apologies, theory of constraints

Has anyone here tried to implement TOC to running multiple projects. If you have do you have any advice on where/how to start. I work for an organisation that really needs to get its act together and I really like the concepts of TOC.

Thanks so much so your information. Just to confirm, it is process pipework in question and it is the internal surface we are focusing on initially. In brief, the project is to combine 2 propane chilling systems, one primary and one secondary. The primary system was originally designed for...

I've been posed with a question and would like to find out more: We are working on a propane cooling system which has the potential under failure to expose local piping systems to flash temperatures below the recommended operating temperature range of the plant steel. Given that these flash...

Hi, I know adsolutely nothing about bio-engineering but have an idea that I would like to investigate. What do you add to organic waste in order to accelerate natural decay. More bacteria, more food for bacteria, more something else?

Steady on there. We all have to start somewhere. I am merely wishing to contribute not change the world. Cheers

I am currently employed as a project engineer (mechanical) looking after a range of offshore cranes. I am increasingly asked to look at electric/electronic curcuit diagrams and have no idea how to really interpret what I am seeing. Can anyone recommend some good books or websites.

Can anyone help to clarify an issue I have with the concept of stress intensity factor in fatigue analysis. A crack will only grow when the value of 'K' reaches a critical value 'KIC'. or A material will fail completely if 'K' reaches 'KIC'

If you can get those positions, I would agree

I am thinking about undertaking a few courses on 3D modelling. What are the main packages used for pipepline/ process?