Operating Services
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.
We focus 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. Ingenero designs 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. Ingenero's 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