Fundamentals of Pressure Safety Valves (PSV)

Course Details:

• Learning Outcomes

  1. How to minimize their exposure to legal regulatory bodies by following the codes correctly
  2. How to reach to safe performance while reducing the inventory loss
  3. How to achieve improvements in inspection and maintenance of pressure safety devices
  4. How to install pressure safety devices correctly to prevent them to be a useless device
  5. How to independently evaluate the requirement of pressure safety devices, their types, and
  6. the required arrangement for them
  7. Terminologies related to PSV’s (including over pressure, blow-down, accumulation,superimposed, double jeopardy) through simple explanations

• Course Content

  1. The Role of PSD (PSVs & Rupture Discs) in Protecting a Plant
  2. Legal Aspects of PSDs
  3. Lifetime of a PSD: from “birth to death”
  4. Structure of PSDs
  5. Specifying a PSD
  6. Locating PSD
  7. Stationing PSD
  8. Defining Scenarios: Primary and Secondary Scenarios
  9. Selecting the right type of PSD “system”
  10. PSD: Types, Operation
  11. PSD arrangements: Series, Parallel
  12. Decision tables for PSD selection
  13. Economical aspects of PSD’s
  14. Breather valves on atmospheric tanks
  15. Collection & Disposal Systems