Engineering and Construction
Relief System Engineering & Risk Analysis
Ingenero offers extensive experience in pressure relief system analysis and design for operating plants. Our wide process design experience in pressure relief systems and engineering ensures correct sizing, selection and installation.
The Company focuses on ensuring adequate overpressure safeguards for equipment systems with identification of all probable overpressure sources. The overpressure protection for each system element is ensured and documented. We design the pressure relief system based on commercial tools, in-house tools, industry standards, and guidelines. Documentation is designed to integrate with existing plant documentation systems.
Design of new relief system
One of the most important activities in
an EPC assignment is relief system
design. Most often, because of schedule/
delivery driven activities, the relief
system design activities don’t receive the necessary focused consideration. Ingenero assists EPC companies
in the design and documentation of the relief system according to the company’s guidelines
and documentation requirements enabling EPC companies to
focus on schedule and delivery driven
activities. Our dedicated team of engineers ensures seamless
operation between an EPC company and
Ingenero.
Audits of existing production facilities
Ingenero provides services designed to assist you with the sizing and selection of relief devices and can provide the complete design documentation for your plant’s relieving system. In addition, we are prepared to provide mitigation study capabilities. Simulation model can be generated to match with the existing feed rate of the plants, which forms a basis for relief system study and generate documentation as per existing plant documentation systems.
Mitigation of existing relief system inadequacies
Often the EPC firm size relief devices/systems based on a certain basis/assumptions, which can be inadequate once a plant’s operating philosophy changes. Our experienced team can mitigate inadequate relief devices/systems by generally recognized and adequate best engineering practices to eliminate unnecessary modifications to the plant, saving cost and downtime for the plant.
Work flow for relief system analysis
- Establish design basis for the study
- Simulation for mass and heat balance
- Data collection for equipment and piping
- Verification of equipment in field
- Identification of all credible scenarios
- Calculation of all credible scenarios
- Size and select pressure relief device
- Flare header analysis
- Mitigations
- Documentation