As part of a project in the refining industry, this project recently received from the supplier a seal gas & conditioning auxiliary unit to a centrifugal compressor. Design conditions are 1175 psig @ 200F. Our engineering practices of such auxiliary units to rotating equipment require all...
I have been approached by my process engineer to consider lowering an existing S&T floating head exchanger's shell-side inlet temperature by nearly 250F. Tubeside conditions would stay the same. With this proposed change, the temperature differential between the shell-side and the tube-side...