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Guide for Pressure-Relieving and Depressuring Systems

standard by American Petroleum Institute , 03/15/1997

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A guide for plant engineers in the design, installation, and operation of pressure-relieving and depressuring systems. Supplements API Recommended Practice 520, Part I. Guidelines are provided for examining principal causes of overpressure; determining individual relieving rates; and selecting and designing disposal systems, including such component parts as vessels, flares, and vent stacks. Suggested solutions to the immediate design and economic and safety problems involved in pressure-relieving discharge systems are presented. Includes a new section on flare gas recovery. See more

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    Pressure-relieving and Depressuring Systems, Seventh Edition, Includes Errata 1 (2022)

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    January 2014
    Pressure-relieving and Depressuring Systems, Sixth Edition

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    January 2007
    Guide for Pressure-relieving and Depressuring Systems: Petroleum petrochemical and natural gas industries-Pressure relieving and depressuring systems, Fifth Edition (Includes 2008 Addendum)

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    Guide for Pressure-Relieving and Depressuring Systems

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    Guide for Pressure Relief and Depressuring Systems

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