Dates: Mar 21, 2024
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When designing pressure relief systems, a common scenario involves the calculation of vapor generation rates from liquids subjected to heating, internal heating, or fire exposure.
In this newsletter, you'll find an excerpt from a white paper by Georges Melhem, Ph.D., FAIChE, on the practices and the challenges of calculating the rate of vaporization in relief and flare system evaluation and design. He’ll cover:
Bonus!
This newsletter also includes a 2-minute video that shows the animation of one-dimensional (1D) fluid dynamics data for a liquid valve using Process Safety Office® SuperChems™ software. Simple design equations, such as those provided by the American Petroleum Institute, continue to be widely used. However, these simple equations require a value of the latent heat of vaporization which varies with composition for a liquid mixture as venting is occurring.
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