Does anyone out there use water for hot oil cooling? If so, how do you reconcile tube rupture relief case? (Note: client intends to used double tubesheet to prevent issue at tube-tubesheet joint, but this doesn't address a tube failure).
Does API 521 indirectly require one to include inlet/outlet piping when sizing for fire relief of a code vessel in it's guidelines for assumed fire coverage of 2500ft2? I'm sizing a valve for a small piece of equipment where the inlet/outlet piping has a relatively significant surface area.
I have always heard (and may have at one time read), that field instrumentation cannot be employed to reduce or eliminate relief liability. I am currently looking at a system that has a low flow switch on the shellside of the exchanger with hot oil on the tubeside. The flow switch activates a...
