Oxygen is essential to life. However, the presence of oxygen-enriched atmospheres, i.e., air and gas mixtures in which the oxygen concentration by volume exceeds 23.5% at sea level or whose partial pressure of oxygen exceeds 0.23 bar, can lead to accidents. Not flammable in itself, oxygen supports and accelerates combustion. The potential fire risk...
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2019 was an amazing year for me. I increased my LinkedIn connection, I released my book The Chemical Process Engineer and LinkedIn, I started my Telegram. Not to mention the first steps of my YouTube Channel and the birth of my mentoring program. All of these actions allow me to reach and help more...
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And if I do not know what MDMT is? As chemical process engineers, you need to understand some definition to keep our process in a safe condition. MDMT is an acronym to Metal Design Minimum Temperature and mean the lowest permissible metal temperature for a given material at a specified thickness based on its...
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Ingress Protection is something chemical process engineers usually do not worry about. However, in small companies, we may need to use different hats to do our job. For that reason, it is interesting to know what IP means and how to use that. Ingress protection (IP) is used to specify the extent of protection...
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That is a trick question and the first answer should be: It depends on. First, as a Chemical Process Engineer, you need to know that in general terms there are two kinds of pumps: dynamics and positive displacement type. A positive displacement pump moves a fluid by repeatedly enclosing a fixed volume and moving...
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Each time we add automatic valves in a control loop it is very important to identify what can happen if the valve fails. Valve failure is related to the loss of power to open, close or modulate an auto valve moving its actuator. This power usually is air, but can be electricity, other gases...
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Facility Siting Study: What a Chemical Process Engineer should know about? During plant layout evaluation it is important to identify and consider all potential exposures that may affect the location of a new process unit and the impact that it will have around. hashtag#Facility siting study is related to process hazard analysis (PHA) and...
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Today let´s talk about hot tapping. Hot Tapping is the ability to safely tie into a pressurized system, by drilling or cutting, while it is on stream and under pressure. Hot tapping is used in order to repair areas that have undergone mechanical damage or corrosion or to add branches for system modifications. Be...
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Chemical Process Engineer must understand how important is to have a safety culture. Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) is one of the most used qualitative methods related to process hazard analysis. Its main objective is to identify the causes of deviations from the design function, determine all major hazards and operability problem associated with deviations,...
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