Chapter 2Troubleshooting for Flood “Troubleshooting, revamping, and eliminating waste offer huge benefits in reducing capital investment, downtime, carbon dioxide emissions, and energy consumption. Unfortunately, the attention paid to this resource…
Chapter 4Diagnosing Packed Tower Maldistribution “The liquid distributor is often considered to be the most important part of a packed bed design. A good distributor cannot make a bad packing…
Chapter 7Thermal and Energy Troubleshooting “If something doesn’t look right… it probably is not right” —(Ross Vail, presentation to AIChE) One of the very first checks at the doctor’s office…
Chapter 9Making the Most of Field Data to Analyze Events and Test Theories “Nobody wants failures. But you also don’t want a good crisis to go to waste” —(Professor Henry…
Chapter 3Efficiency Testing and Separation Troubleshooting “A theory without a test is B.S.” —(Norman P. Lieberman and E. T. Lieberman, Ref. 295) The first part of this chapter deals with…
CHAPTER 6 Interacting systems THE systems treated in Chapter 5 are valuable examples of systems for which all mathematical steps can be implemented and the premises of statistical mechanics tested….