TY - BOOK AU - Lieberman,Norman P. TI - Troubleshooting process plant control: a practical guide to avoiding and correcting mistakes SN - 9781119267768 (cloth) AV - TP690.3 .L534 2017 U1 - 660/.2815 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Hoboken, NJ, USA PB - John Wiley & Sons Inc. KW - Petroleum refineries KW - Maintenance and repair KW - Chemical process control N1 - Includes index; Learning from experience -- Process control parameter measurement -- Dependent and independent variables -- Binary distillation of pure components -- Distillation tower pressure control -- Control of aqueous phase (waste water) strippers -- Pressure control in multicomponent systems -- Optimizing fractionation efficiency by temperature profile -- Analyzer process control -- Fired heater combustion air control -- Using existing controls to promote energy efficiency -- Sizing process control valves -- Control valve position on instrument air failure -- Override and split-range process control -- Vacuum system pressure control -- Reciprocating compressors -- Centrifugal compressor surge vs. motor over-amping -- Controlling centrifugal pumps -- Steam turbine control -- Steam and condensate control -- Control of process reactions -- Function of the process control engineer -- Steam quality and moisture content -- Level, pressure, flow, and temperature indication methods -- Alarm and trip design for safe plant operations -- Inverted response of process parameters -- Nonlinear process responses -- Control malfunction stories ER -