Chemical and Process Plant Commissioning Handbook: A Practical Guide to Plant System and Equipment Installation and Commissioning - Hardcover

Killcross, Martin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0128240490 ISBN 13: 9780128240496

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2021

Synopsis

Chemical and Process Plant Commissioning Handbook: A Practical Guide to Plant System and Equipment Installation and Commissioning, Second Edition, winner of the 2012 Basil Brennan Medal from the Institution of Chemical Engineers, is a guide to converting a newly constructed plant or equipment into a fully integrated and operational process unit. The book is supported by detailed, proven and effective commission templates and includes extensive commissioning scenarios that enable the reader to good commissioning practices. Sections focus on the critical safety assessment and inspection regimes necessary to ensure that new plants are compliant with OSHA and environmental requirements.

Martin Killcross has comprehensively brought together the theory of textbooks and technical information obtained from sales literature to provide engineers with what they need to know before initiating talks with vendors regarding equipment selection.

• Outlines how to organize and commission a process plant
• Includes extensive examples of successful commissioning processes with step-by-step guidance that enables readers to understand the function and performance of the wide range of tasks required in the commissioning process
• Offers an understanding of supplementary factors of commissioning such as risk and hazard management
• Reviews commonly asked commissioning questions
• Includes the basis of the commissioning paperwork system

About this title

About the Author

Current Manager of Commissioning in the UK energy sector, a world scale Nuclear Deconversion Project (circ £1B) which is in the final commissioning stages. With over 41 years in the Chemical, Nuclear and related business sectors, 38 of those years specifically commissioning, de-commissioning and operating assets world-wide, including 25 years with ICI, subsequently working in both the client and contracting commissioning leadership capacities. The author has commissioned most unit operations and handled many hazardous chemicals. Since the publication of the 1st edition of this book, the author has presented at conferences and training events worldwide

Edition details

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Publication date: 2021
• ISBN 10: 0128240490
• ISBN 13: 9780128240496
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 534