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    Crack Arrestors - long running brittle fractures

    All I would be grateful for advice on the use / availability of crack arrestors to arrest long running brittle fractures in a pipeline. The pipeline of interest is old, transports natural gas, and is made from X42 steel with a low toughness and high ductile brittle transition temperature. I am...
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    Gas thermal expansion and PSV

    Dear All I have got myself confused. I have a gas station that operates near to its design pressure. There is the shut-in situation that may then be subjected to solar radiation and temperature increase. The gas is methane, the operating pressure 9,000 kPag and the design pressure 9,600 kPag...
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    Salary and poor negotiation

    My company has a quite rigid pay structure for the graduates and young engineers. However, as the experience levels increase, so do the salary bands. My problem is that I recently moved companies and received a pay increase. At the time I was happy with the figure and did little to...
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    Small Gas heaters

    I am designing a small natural gas pressure reducing and metering station where a heat input of approximately 30 kW is required to heat the gas to prevent icing, hydrate formation and liquid drop out. I am looking for a suitable heater to heat the gas. Obviously the natural choice is a water...
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    Painting of cold pipe

    I have just installed a tie in piece into some plant gas distribution pipework. This is down stream of a pressure let down/metering station and has cold gas passing through it. The newly installed pipework did not get painted prior to installation and therefore must be done in situ...

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