We have a very condensed shutdown - something like 1600 work orders (with multiple tasks and resources) completed in 7 to 10 days. 24/7. Cost is about a million dollars a day to be down.
1st Question: Given all the time in the world to plan has anyone actually pulled off a nearly live...
I like my workplace - I love the pay and benefits etc.
I took (and still taking) the initiative to improve myself (on my own dime I might add) and it looked like it would pay off. I was promised a new position for months. All the while I was getting kudo's from my boss and the CEO etc about...
I have 3 condensate lines (400KPA) running through some control valves and then immediately going up into the top of the flash tank. (First off I didn't design it).
That being said I have a lot of errosion issues presumably with flashing steam through the valves driving the condensate at high...
Does anyone know who sells a flapper/weir gate that will act like a check valve but open in very low DP situations? I'm envisioning one like a pool skimmer flapper/weir but on an industrial scale and quality and instead of floating closed it would sink closed. (i.e bottom of the pool not the...
We have a liquid service relief valve on the steam dome of our deaerator. I've been asked to determine whether a steam or liquid one should be used.
Couple of interesting notes from various sources.
Excerpts from OEM manual -
1) Relief valver UNO should be a sentinel type.
2) Steam...
I have a studded access door that requires unbolting for inspection. Besides replacing the door with something different (hinged etc) does anyone know if there's such a thing as a quick release nut that will use regular coarse thread.
We use three internal or closed screw pumps to lift our RAS from a sump up 25 ft at a rate of 8000 GPM. We are experiencing a lot of cracking on the head flights and after several weld repairs / sensitization etc we are in the position that we need to replace/ upgrade.
What's everyone's...
I'm going over a design for effluent from our mill and trying to determine if Category D or M should apply.
My thoughts are that although there is potential for biological (bacteria) harming a person coming into contact with it I wouldn't consider it damaging or irreversible. Temperature and...
We are trying to take out of service an inline gas heater to our plant for a really overdue inspection without shutting down the plant. We tried injecting methanol to prevent the freezing of control valves etc but to no avail.
Does anyone have suggestions - maybe we didn't inject enough, what...
