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Sizing safety valves - Liquefied petroleum gas sites

Author: Serge ABAUZIT

Publication date: December 10, 2015 | Lire en français

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    4. Sizing safety valves

    4.1 Fire safety valves

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    4.1.1 Approach to sizing fire safety valves

    The sizing process is as follows.

    Step 1: Determination of the hot LPG steam flow rate to be evacuated in nominal operation (all valves operating correctly) and in degraded operation (one valve remains blocked), by successively studying :

    • the retained value for the amount of heat transferred to the tank in the event of a fire;

    • the mass flow rate...

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