API 521

Description

A guide for plant engineers in the design, installation, and operation of pressure-relieving and depressuring systems. Supplements API Recommended Practice 520, Part I. Guidelines are provided for examining principal causes of overpressure; determining individual relieving rates; and selecting and designing disposal systems, including such component parts as vessels, flares, and vent stacks. Suggested solutions to the immediate design and economic and safety problems involved in pressure-relieving discharge systems are presented. Includes a new section on flare gas recovery.

Product Details

Edition:

4th

Published:

03/15/1997

ANSI:

ANSI Approved

Number of Pages:

106

File Size:

2 files , 11 MB

Product Code(s):

C52104, C52104, C52104

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