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EI GUIDE. DESIGN & OPER. HEAT EXCHANGERS : 2015-12

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GUIDELINES FOR THE SAFE DESIGN AND OPERATION OF SHELL AND TUBE HEAT EXCHANGERS TO WITHSTAND THE IMPACT OF TUBE FAILURE
Published date

11-01-2015

Foreword
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
2 Heat exchanger selection considerations
3 Shell and tube heat exchanger design
4 Relief system design
5 Dynamic simulation
6 Instrumentation design and selection
7 Operation
Annexes
Annex A - Glossaries
Annex B - References
Annex C - Applicable UK legislation
Annex D - Incidents
Annex E - Failure statistics
Annex F - Experimental validation
Annex G - Crossflow vibration analysis
Annex H - Impact initial step pressure calculation
Annex I - Shell and tube heat exchangers design
          sensitivity simulations
Annex J - Options for relief device locations
Annex K - Simulation of slug flow in the relief pipe

Pertains to process, mechanical and instrumentation engineers to use when designing systems incorporating STHEs, when reviewing systems designed prior to publication of these guidelines, or when the process conditions are to be changed that could invalidate assumptions made in the system design.

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Energy Institute (formerly Institute of Petroleum - IP)
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