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In this video you will learn
1. Different scenarios of overpressure
2. how it occurs
3. what is fire case
4. how to calculate relief load
Transcript
00:01hi friends welcome to our channel today we are going to see pressure relief
00:05all scenarios of over pressure and guideline for fire case so let's start
00:10disclaimer for our channel and the content you shown in this videos
00:21assume assumptions while accessing the various scenarios see there are some assumptions has
00:27to be understand because we want to understand the fundamentals because we cannot go straight
00:32away to the formula and how to calculate the fire load or what are the different scenarios
00:36so first we have to assume we have to understand what are the assumptions it is assumed that
00:43the train operator operates the plant it is not like that anybody goes in the process
00:48plant and he starts operating he is a well trained operator so he will not he will listen
00:55to alarms and other things so that part to be understand simultaneous occurrence of a two
01:02or more condition that could result in over pressure will not be considered if the cause
01:07are unrelated so double geo party here we talking about the double geo party in the process and
01:13mechanical or electrical commonality exist among this cause so we cannot say that the earthquake
01:21and tsunami can come together so we have to take each occurrence independently double geo party to be
01:29avoided otherwise we will at the end we will design a very over design or over design for that pressure
01:39safety wall so that has to be avoided the opening and closing action of a control wall and the automatic
01:48start of the equipment will not be considered as a suitable pressure relief device for equipment protection
01:54because the supply of these items is an emergency and is not regard it is regarded as a reliable
02:02as general rule final over pressure protection is to be provided utilizing the mechanical pressure relief device
02:12and the equipment not affected by utility failure begin to evaluate will be considered to remain
02:20in operation so the equipment which are not affected by utility failure that has to be considered as
02:29operating safely and the automatic wall wearer the instrument air and control walls are there
02:36they are considered as can be filled can be filled so that the failing of that equipments which are
02:43connected to instruments or electrical the filler can be considered so these are the four assumptions
02:52flow rates through the equipment when we are calculating any block outlet case or the flow rate
02:57through the equipment or other conditions during emergency will be assumed to be a normal rate
03:02except where the particular preliminary emergency cause under the consideration would alter the flow
03:09so unless any other emergency continuation of one emergency to another case comes till that time
03:17we have to consider the normal flow rates for the calculation otherwise again we will over design our PSV
03:25in case of fire the flow is assumed to have stopped and been contained within a defined system so this
03:33also for the fire case because we are
03:37going to see that how to calculate a leaf load for fire case so for fire case we have to
03:41assume that it is getting isolated
03:44the possibility of operator intervention opening or closing of any wall
03:49or taking any incorrect action in a wrong sequence or at the wrong time will be considered
03:55so operator uh inadvertently open some walls or he misunderstand because when when uh there are
04:05when operator works and he got a 10 hundred alarms together he get panic and maybe there is a chance
04:12he can
04:12uh he can wrong sequence or some wrong action he can take so that's why operator uh failure has to
04:22be considered
04:24however the block walls electrical switches and equipments items like car seal walls etc uh will not be
04:31considered involved in any cases or operator error so uh it will not be considered that car seal wall
04:38somebody gets wrongly open due to the panic situation no
04:42that that that that assumption we cannot take that for calculation
04:50so overpressure scenarios in process industries so there are few overpressure scenarios decided
04:58listed by the apis as well
05:00so first is external fire which is the most important then exit block or blocked outlet so some
05:10if the block outlet will see each scenario how what it means and then we will go we will see
05:17how to
05:18calculate relief load for each scenario the third one is cooling or column reflux failure
05:24or pump around failure or pump around failure then tube rupture in shell and tube exchanger
05:31control valve failure hydraulic and thermal expansion power failure instrument air failure loss of fan in
05:41air cooled exchangers or tripping of fan cooling water failure
05:49ambient heat input to revoilers uh abnormal heat input to revoilers
05:57check valve valve operation and loss of heating series fractionation system and liquid
06:06overfill these are the these are uh these are the scenarios to be considered
06:13so first scenario we will see the external fire
06:18so suppose if any vessel you have seen this picture so what is external fire generally external fire or fire
06:26happens on the surface
06:28it will not happen on the platforms or where it is a checker split it can happen on a
06:34you can say in a building or a where the concrete foundation or a solid foundation is available
06:41you cannot consider the fire on any checker plates or any platform open platform which
06:48where the drains you cannot say drain it is open platform and we have to understand that flame height
06:57based on the studies it has been it can go up to the 25 feet from the ground
07:04so or a 7.6 meter or generally it takes as a 8 meter so if you see this is
07:10the ground elevation
07:11and this is the fire so fire flame height can go up to 25 feet or a 7.6 meter
07:19so up to this point only we have to consider our weighted surface area so liquid in this
07:26area will get boiled because of the external fire heat
07:33so this is the fire case and if any vessel which is above this if if suppose this vessel having
07:41a skirt
07:42support and the skirt is up to some 8 meter like some columns will have the bigger
07:50height of the skirts so if this height is more than 25 feet then this liquid liquid available in the
07:59column
07:59will not come as a weighted surface area you can straight away say that because the height of the vessel
08:06or the bottom of the vessel is above the 25 feet so it is not qualified for the fire case
08:17there are some other other overpressure scenarios so we will see one by one so suppose this is in a
08:24process plant this is a stripper where the steam is getting entered into the column and feed coming
08:30from the top so this is a stripping action and then the vapors or lighters goes on the top which
08:39will
08:39be cooled to the overhead condenser then there is a separator and separated liquid will be partially
08:47sent for the reflux and partially it will be taken as a product it is mentioned as a naphtha here
08:55and whatever the flashing vapors are going like lpg vapors these are the off gases from this separator
09:02and the bottom there is a bottom product which is a product diesel or bottom product you can say
09:11so loss of fan in air cooled exchanger so if this fan get tripped so when this fan gets tripped
09:20this is an over pressure scenario for this column so we have to this is a one case which we
09:27which we
09:28have listed then control all failures it can be common it can control all failure can be anywhere
09:35so if this in the vapor line if this control all fails to close then the pressure in this vessel
09:42will
09:43increase and this increasing in this pressure will directly or indirectly increasing the pressure of
09:50the column because column pressure is controlled by this control wall only so this is a control wall
09:58this type of a control failure control wall failure can be considered in here as well it can be
10:03considered here as well anywhere control failure control failure case means control wall is
10:09in a safe position if it is a fail open and the control failure case comes like
10:15whether when he wants that wall should be open however that wall is getting closed
10:23column reflux failure because we know that the column is required reflux
10:30to cool down the upcoming vapors so if this
10:34either this wall get closed or this pumps get tripped so these both are comes under column reflux failure
10:43liquid overfill suppose if this outlet wall get closed or this wall can be here as well
10:50if this wall get closed so liquid
10:54coming down
10:57it's continuously coming down so it will get overfilled so liquid on this column will start building
11:02and this will eventually there will be no vapor space to come down so eventually this vapor will
11:08start increasing the pressure in this column so these are the four cases cases can be understand from
11:16this these are the four core pressure scenarios
11:23also this is also a methanol unit where two columns are there then there are some
11:33if you see these are the compressor or turbines are there
11:37okay and there are exchangers separator exchangers the complete system is there cooling water is also
11:44supplied to the few of the so so few are the coolers these are the coolers where the cooling water
11:49has
11:49supplied so first scenario is cooling water failure if the cooling water can be failure based because of the
11:58dripping of the cooling water pump at the cooling tower or closing of any walls in the individual
12:05exchanger so that cooling water has to be considered as
12:09to be seen that it is a local scenario like somebody has isolated the cooling water
12:15wall for the whole plant or some exchanger so based on that cooling water
12:19filler case has to be considered or or the pump in the cooling tower got tripped
12:26power failure if the compressors are running
12:29and if the power which are the motor driven if if that compressor trips so it will
12:36it will it will that power failure case will compressor trips and then it will not able to take out
12:44pull
12:44out the vapors from the column or so that will increase the pressure
12:54like in a vacuum column ejectors are there if that failures that is also increasing the pressure of the
13:00column then liquid overfill we will see there also if if the outlet or any control wall in this section
13:08get closed this liquid start building in this vessel tube failure this is in a methanol synthesis reactor
13:17which is having the tubes and shell so if tube failures happen then there is a chance of
13:24that the high pressures fluid will travel towards the low pressure fluid and if the low pressure
13:33system is like shell is designed for lower pressure then
13:37it has to be protected shell has to be protected from for the tubelic case
13:43then abnormal heat inputs suppose these are the boilers which is taking heat from the steam and
13:50there is a steam control wall in this line so if this control wall gets face open so this
13:56reboiler will get additional it's abnormal heat which is not required additional heat it will get
14:02so because of that there may be generation of additional vapors and which will and you do not have the
14:09sufficient cooling in the overhead so then that vapor additional generated vapor will
14:16increase your pressure so that is also one scenario so we will start to start with the external fire how
14:26to calculate relief load for the external fire case which is very important
14:35so fire may occur in a gas processing facility
14:39and create a greatest relieving requirement so if it is happening in a gas processing
14:46then it is very difficult to manage but generally we have to consider a
14:52pool fire instead of a jet fire for fire case means if the pool fire is happen pool fire means
14:59a liquid pool will be burned and then that flame gets
15:06flame may be heating the vessel if it is if if there is no liquid available in that process unit
15:13then the pool fire is not possible the following equipment not required to consider in fire case
15:21so before so as we want to understand the fundamentals so first thing we should know that what we do
15:27not
15:28need to consider a vessel which is normally contain no liquid as a failure of vessel shell due to overheating
15:37would probably occur before pressure relief wall protect the vessel so if the vessel is not containing
15:43any liquid what will happen it will over it because of the fire and metal get brittle and it get
15:51damaged
15:52before it it reach to the pressure pressure of a set point pressure so in such cases we have to
15:59be a depressurization system
16:02not the pressure relief wall vessel or a drum with two feet or less in diameter constructed of pipe
16:10pipe fitting or equivalent do not require pressure relief walls for protection against fire unless
16:17these are stamped as coded vessel so if the vessels if the very small vessels of two feet and if
16:24it is not
16:25stamped as a coded vessel then relief wall is not required heat exchanger do not need a separate pressure
16:33relief wall for protection against the fire exposure since they are usually protected by the pressure
16:39relief wall in the interconnected equipment or have an open escape path to the atmosphere
16:46so generally exchangers are like if reboiler is there it is protected by the column psv itself so it is
16:53a
16:54not an additional fire case has to be considered however the if the uh heat exchanger comes near the
17:01column and it comes in within that height of 25 feet then the wetted surface area has to be considered
17:08for
17:08heat exchanger but a separate psv is not required for heat exchanger
17:14pressure vessel filled with both a liquid and a solid such as molecular sleeve catalyst not required
17:21or pressure caused by fire so if any vessel or any reactor which is filled with the catalyst
17:27it has to be considered it has not to be considered for fire case it has to be considered for
17:33depressurization
17:35not for the psv calculation
17:42in calculating the fire load for individual vessel assume that the vessel contain liquid at operating
17:48condition and vapour are generated by fire exposure and heat transport so we should not assume that
17:55the liquid is already got heated and then there is a fire also liquid we have to consider as operating
18:03at
18:03operating conditions only determine the pressure relief device capacity for several interconnected vessel
18:12each vessel should be calculated separately rather than determining the heat input on the basis of
18:19summation of the total weighted surface area so if the two or three vessels together expected to be
18:25come in the fire zone and fire can be happened then individual vessel has to be considered instead of
18:33summation of the total weighted surface area
18:37individual vessel has to be calculated independently for the weighted surface area
18:46so it's a very simple formula to calculate the relieving load
18:50the w is the relieving load q is the heat load and l is the
18:55latent heat so w is the relieving load capacity in kg per hour q is the total heat of absorption
19:00kilo cal per hour and l is the latent heat of but this formula is so simple but
19:08to know that what is the heat of total heat of absorption or how to calculate the weight
19:15relieving capacity
19:21q the first question
19:26as per the api the adequate if the adequate drainage and fire fighting equipments are exists
19:32means the draining for the water a fire water to drain properly like
19:36uh you can say
19:40proper slope on the floor and there is a channels which can take the water out and firefighting
19:48equipment like fire extinguishers are there in nearby area so it's called as adequate drainage for
19:53firefighting so if it is available then q can be calculated as
19:58units 21 000 into f into a to the power 82 for british unit and q is equal to 27140
20:07into f into a to the power 82 for metric units
20:12similarly if inadequate drainage or you don't know if the drainage is available or not
20:17and firefighting equipments are there or not then you can take
20:21the credit and uh you can assume but you can put that assumption your cal in your calculation and
20:27then you can use this formula q is equal to 34500 into f into a into a to the power
20:3382 for
20:34battery unit and 61 000 into f into 0.82 for the metric unit
20:42so where in this formula f is the environmental factor and a is the total weighted surface area in meter
20:48square
20:50so next question comes
20:54how to calculate the weighted surface area
20:59so weighted surface area used to calculate heat absorption due to the fire within the 25 feet
21:07or 7.6 meter or generally it takes as a 8 meter above the grade usually referred to the ground
21:14level or a
21:14solid platform as we seen in the earlier slide it should be as either it should be from the ground
21:20level or it should be a solid platform it cannot be from any checkers plate or any open platform
21:28weighted surface area has to be calculated for the horizontal vessel and drum vertical vessel and drum
21:32storage spheres storage tanks other than atmospheric tanks
21:39fractionation and other towers if it is a fractionator uh for the these vessels if these vessels are coming
21:46in this 25 feet of area then the wetted surface area has to be calculated
21:51for fractionator and other towers an equivalent tower dump level in is calculated by adding the liquid holdup
22:00on the tray the liquid at height high high liquid level holdup at the tower bottom and the surface
22:09that is weighted by the equivalent level which is 25 feet above the grid and the level of the re
22:17-boiler
22:17is to be included in the re-boiler included in the calculation so so tower high level has to be
22:24considered
22:28included including the liquid holdup on the tray if the trays are coming in between this
22:338 meter area then liquid holdup on the each tray has to be considered and the highest level of the
22:39at the bottom that will be considered also if the re-boiler comes in that area within the 25 feet
22:47of height also then it has to be considered
22:49temperature for fin fan coolers air cooler exchanger located within the fire zone area if suppose any
22:58fin fan cooler which is at the lower and if we're generally in the refineries or in
23:02big petrochemical plants they are on the pipe rack and they are fell above the 8 feet sorry 8 meter
23:10but if suppose it didn't in any existing plant in all plant if it is there and you want to
23:16read it
23:16or you want to check that psv calculation again then then you can consider this case
23:23then then the air fins located directly above the pipe rack are also normally excluded as i said
23:29because the pipe rack height is more than 8 meter then it can be directly executed excluded and also
23:35because it is a sheltered by the radiation from by the piping because it is on the pipe rack and
23:41there
23:41are a lot of if there are a lot of pipes on the pipe rack already then heat will be
23:47shielded it will be
23:47given to it will taken by that pipe line and the metal which is inside
23:56so that's why and if we have to consider the air fin fan cooler we have to consider the
24:01bare area of the tubes only not with the fins because fins will be get damaged very quickly once
24:08it comes under the fire so only bare pipe area has to be considered for the calculation
24:19in air cooled exchanger are considered separately since unlikely shell and tube unit there are
24:26heat transfer surface is exposed directly to the fire they are designed for designed for ambient inlet
24:34air conditions and rapidly loss of air cooling and condensing ability when they are exposed to the
24:41fire so when we are considering if we know that the a fin fan cooler comes under the area of
24:47height of
24:488 meter and it coming in the fire zone then it has to be considered considered
24:56because it can be it is designed for the only for the air design temperature so
25:00it's chance of getting hitting is very quickly the relieving load could be calculated using the
25:09bare tube area as we just in the last slide we know that we have to consider the bare tube
25:18area only
25:19instead of fin tubes and if the condensing without sub cooling is there that if that cooler is condensing
25:27only without sub cooling means just and condensation means from latent heat transfer then weighted surface
25:33area is equal to 0.3 times of the bare tube area based on the bottom 30 percent of the
25:40circumference
25:42being weighted by the condensed condensate layer so if it is condensing means it is the liquidates at
25:48saturation temperature or it is just getting condensed it is not it remains at the saturation only so in the
25:56top of the
25:57top tubes of the fin fan cooler there will be a vapors only and some at the bottom only there
26:05will be a liquid
26:07because condensation happen in the bottom tube may be on the second pass or third pass depending on the
26:11construction of the air cooler so that has to be considered that's why the weighted surface can be
26:17considered as equal to the 0.3 times of the bare tube area condensing the sub cooling
26:24the condensing section should be threatened as the item and sub cooling section so weighted surface
26:30are equal to the bare tube area if it is a condensing with sub cooling means you can consider all
26:35the tubes
26:36but the bare surface area without fins if gas cooling is there surface area is equal to the bare tube
26:44if it is liquid cooling also it is a bare tube only and one thing needs to be understand sometimes
26:51there
26:52is a guideline that if the fin fan gets stripped you can consider some natural draft cooling but in fire
27:00case we cannot consider the natural draft cooling is happening in the fin fan cooler so this is a caution
27:09point
27:11it is applicable for other place but not for fire in the fire case
27:19so gas cooling service there will be no vapor generation due to fire and the tubes are likely
27:25to fill due to overheating so if it is a gas cooling service so before getting more vapor vapors are
27:34already
27:34there so then there is a chance of failure because it's designed for the air cooling temperature only
27:41normal condensing load for air cooler condenser must be added to the calculation fire load and other
27:48surfaces so heating and as well as the water the queue of that exchanger to be considered for the
27:57relief load calculation in the wetted surface area causes by air fan cooler the area term a would be taken
28:06to an exponent to an exponent of 1 instead of 0.82 we seen that the 67000 into f into
28:15a to the power
28:160.82 in in in to calculate the wetted surface area for the air fin fan cooler we instead of
28:220.82 it can be taken as
28:231 so it will be a conservative calculation also the because fin fan coolers are not anywhere is the
28:34insulated so environmental factor also has to be considered one
28:43so now we understand how to calculate the wetted surface area for the air fan fan cooler for the
28:48column for the vessels for the exchanger now the second part of that calculation is how to know the
28:54environmental factor how to calculate the environmental factor
28:58so for insulated vessel the environment factor for insulation becomes based on the following formula
29:06so f is the environmental factor k is the thermal conductivity of insulation we have to
29:15check the units BTU into ft square by f
29:21t is the thickness of insulation and the capital T is the temperature of the vessel containing the
29:27living condition in degree Fahrenheit it shall be noted that if the pressure relief facility are
29:34based on the environmental factor with insulation this facility should be rechecked for environmental
29:39factor of 1 if the insulation is removed so as I said if you do not know that insulation is
29:46properly
29:46there or not or if it is removed then you have to consider the environmental factor as 1 otherwise
29:51you can if you are sure that or if if you are designing it for the new unit and then
29:56you know that
29:56the insulation will be properly insulated that vessel will properly insulated and insulation is not
30:03damaged so then you can use this formula
30:11also there is also there is also there is a guideline available in api
30:17that for the bare vessel we have to use one and based on the insulated vessel
30:23within the insulation conductance value these are the conductance value for the insulation if you know that
30:30the conduction conductance value for the insulation then you can take up
30:34environmental factor accordingly if the conduction value is 4 actually the conduction value are the
30:39computed value from the equation are based upon the insulation having thermal conductivity of 4 btu
30:47to 4 btu at 1000 degree Fahrenheit and correspond to the various thickness of insulation between 1 inch to 12
30:55inch
30:55so this is a computed value given in api based on the thermal conductivity between 4 btu at 100 degree
31:06Fahrenheit
31:07so if you have available this information you can use this environmental factor also for water application
31:16facility on bare vessel environmental factor to be considered one depressurization and
31:21emitting facility you have to consider
31:25environmental factor as one earth covered vessel
31:29so which are the buried vessels you can consider the environmental factor as 0.03
31:33and below grade vessel no need to consider anything
31:38so no fire case for the underground vessels or buried vessel below the great vessel
31:51so now we found out that how to get the wetted surface area then how to get the
31:58environmental factor and now the last point we based on the wetted surface area and the environmental
32:05factor we can get the q value now we want to know the what is l which means the latent
32:11heat
32:14so for single component system the term lambda or latent heat equal to the latent heat of vaporization
32:21at relieving condition when the it is a single component system like a propane only or butane only
32:30but generally this not happen or any like water only water only steam only whatever depending on the
32:37or process a single component but this should be single component it may be determined from the
32:42flash calculation as a difference of specific enthalpies and vapor liquid phases equilibrium
32:49with each other it may be obtained from api api rp 521 appendix a figure if one this needs to
32:58be
32:58checked because api is getting if getting updated and if the maybe number may not change but if any changes
33:05are there but this is for only for the single component system which is available in api the peak
33:11relief load will always occur at the start of the fire when the wetted surface area is area is a
33:19and
33:20consequently the heat input is q are both at the maximum so peak load had starts at the start
33:29and if if the relieving pressure is beyond the critical pressure use 50 btu or 27.8 kilo cal per
33:36hour as a latent heat or some places if you do not able to calculate the the latent heat you
33:46can
33:46consider this 27.8 kilo cal per hour for the conservative calculation or a 50 btu per lb as a
33:54conservative
33:54if you do not have the software to calculate the flash calculation then this is this can be but this
34:02has to be written in your basis perfectly so because based on this you may be get some over design
34:09in
34:09your psv so accordingly you have to see your inlet line size and other things will should not impact
34:15but if you do not have any latent heat available to calculate you can consider this
34:21as a for the preliminary calculation like in feed if you do not have the during feed calculation or
34:29in the initial state of project if you do not have the more information you can go with this number
34:39so otherwise this is the graph which is available in api you can take it you can check this for
34:46the
34:51single component for the multi component so mixture of generally hydrocarbons or in refinery we have a we
34:58do not have a single component it's a mixture of components so using the composition of a residual
35:03liquid inventory in the vessel perform a bubble point flash at the accumulated pressure in doing this flash
35:10the flow rate the flow rate will be flow rate can be anything or you can take any unit number
35:15because
35:15it's a we have to calculate we have to divide it by per unit we have to calculate so any
35:21unit you can take
35:22you can consider a thousand unit of mass flow rate for doing the bubble point color of flash for the
35:29multi component system so flash liquid from from the preceding flash at constant pressure and the weight
35:39percentage vaporized equal to one to five so this you can do in the high c simulation
35:45for the liquid you can vaporize it for the one to five percent of flash the multi for the multi
35:52component only
35:53divide the heat duty calculated for the flash by mass flow rate of a vapor generated so the result will
36:02be heat of absorption per unit mass of vapor generated so when you you have to how to do we
36:08have to take
36:09a component we have to take a stream we have to put all the components in that and then you
36:14just flash
36:15you vaporize one or one to five percent of the you have to put in the vapor fraction as 0
36:21.05 or 0.01 then
36:24when the result comes it will give the vapor flow rate and liquid flow rate as well so you have
36:29to
36:29divide that vapor flow rate so what are the duty heat duty comes you have to divide it by mass
36:35flow rate
36:35so that will give you the the heat of absorption per unit of mass generated
36:44however it should be noted that in generally this wall this value will not equal to the latent heat
36:51of vaporization nor equal to the difference in vapor and liquid specific enthalpies in fact the value
36:58thus calculated will be generally exceeding the latent heat of vaporization especially in case of
37:04wide boiling mixture and the reason for a reason is that the significant portion of the heat absorbed
37:11goes into the rising the temperature of the system means the sensible heat the most of which is a
37:18residual liquid at the point and to the equilibrium temperature of the flash that is a sensible heat
37:23because lot of heat will go for the increasing the temperature to get it saturation temperature
37:28and then it will change the phase so that will be the latent heat
37:37so if this is this is the calculation for the wetted surface area but if you as we talked in
37:44the
37:45earlier slides unwetted surface area is also there so unwetted wall vessel are those in which the internal
37:53walls are exposed to gas vapor or a supercritical fluid so in such cases we have to use this formula
38:01weighted surface area or the sorry relieving load for the unweighted surface area is 0.1406 into
38:10under root of m into p to the power of 1 into the bracket a t w minus t 1
38:17divided by t 1 with this
38:19so w is a relieving capacity m is the molecular weight p 1 is the relieving pressure it is a
38:27set pressure
38:28and allowable pressure and atmospheric pressure it is a relieving pressure we have to consider
38:32then a is the exposed surface area you have to check that if it is coming in
38:42it is coming in that 25 feet area or not and based on that surface area we have to calculate
38:46it is
38:47and that exposed surface area then t w is a vessel wall temperature vessel wall temperature is this is the
38:54maximum temperature of the vessel or wall which vessel can sustain it is not the operating temperature of
39:03the wall it is a so at the whatever the temperature comes the worst temperature which that material can
39:13handle like carbon steel or any any material or ss t 1 is the gas temperature absolute in ranking at
39:25the
39:25upstream relieving pressure determined from the relationship so according to api recommendation
39:32recommended practice sizing selection and installation of pressure relief device in refineries
39:38the conventional assumed maximum wall a vessel wall temperature for typical carbon steel is
39:451100 fahrenheit or equal to 593 degree c so that tw if it is a carbon steel vessel you can
39:50take as 593
39:52and then minus the operating temperature of the gas this value is used for the specific api
39:59521 formula which is this this is api formula only for calculating the required relief capacity for
40:06gas filled unweighted gas filled unweighted vessel exposed to the fire
40:16so in unweighted relief load unweighted surface area relief rate calculation the api formula which
40:25which have seen in the earlier slide for the relief load is an unweighted fire case is based on the
40:32heat
40:32transfer from the hot vessel wall to the content gas okay tw and t1 using a very high maximum temperature
40:40of tw ensuring the calculated relief rate accounts for the worst case heating scenario
40:47so material failure concerns comes there in unweighted fire case where there is a no liquid to absorb the heat
40:55and keep the wall cool the vessel wall can heat up significantly faster than the internal gas
41:02pressure increases so before increasing the pressure
41:06your vessel can heat up significantly which and it can be get damaged
41:11so vessel rupture versus PSV activation so we have to see that before putting a PSV on
41:17a unweighted vessel the primary risk of unweighted vessel is that the wall material will become a severely
41:27weakened by the high temperature causing the vessel to rupture due to loss of tensile strength before the
41:35pressure reach the relief wall set set point therefore the maximum wall temperature assumed for carbon
41:42still is 1100 degree Fahrenheit is also related to the temperature which common vessel material
41:48lose the significant strength to contain the pressure so because before it reaches to the
41:56set pressure of the PSV it will lose the tensile strength and it can be damaged
42:02because of this material failure risk api 521 often recommended deep pressure agent system
42:08or a water spray as an additional layer of protection for unweighted vessel exposed to fire as PRV alone may
42:17not be sufficient so when somebody asks you to put a PSV or design a PSV for unweighted surface area
42:25you
42:25all these four points you have to explain them and then if there is a better option is to go
42:33for the
42:34depression system or water spray if it is available depending on the typical situation
42:44so we the conclusion of this session we have seen the different scenarios of overpressure and then
42:52how to calculate relief load for fire case for weighted surface area and unweighted surface
42:59this so we have established the sizing for fire case is not merely an exercise in mathematics but it
43:06a critical matter of a system integrity and safety because we do not want to design a pressure safety
43:13wall which will not popped up before and before that your vessel or a system or your pipeline will get
43:21damaged the key principle to take away from this the conclusion of this understand what is the
43:26wetted surface area that is the 8 meter height and it is from the ground and all from the solid
43:32platform
43:32not from any other platform the unweighted thread which we seen in earlier slides for gas filled vessels
43:40focus shift danger is not just a pressure but a material failure so it has to be understand that it
43:47is not a
43:47uh increasing the pressure it is damaging the or failure of the material
43:54also apf i29 gives us a guideline not the guarantee ultimate ultimately the goal of the calculation is
44:02not just to comply with code but guarantee that our final safety device the pressure relief wall is
44:09sized correctly to protect the vessel and the environment under the most extreme life threatening scenarios
44:16so that is our aim it is not to comply only api or any guideline but here all the guideline
44:24has to be
44:25follow whatever the guidelines are given they are based on the apis and the standard books so
44:33that are the valid guidelines which are followed for the various calculation
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