How GE designs its jet engines
The above link is worth watching and it is interesting to see how strict mandates for aviation design are!
Of late, in India, I see a deterioration in design aspects in chemical plants., mainly because of cost cutting pressures and severe competition in the EPC space. This leads to some dilution in design. Let me give you an example. There were two EPC contractors bidding to build a new ammonia storage tank. One of them who was the lowest bidder got the assignment. Tank was erected, commissioned and everything went off well. As time went by, corrosion started affecting the tanks and only then it was noticed that the designer had scrounged on the number of root isolation valves to cut costs. This meant that if there was a leak in an instrument manifold tapping coming from the top of the tank to the bottom, the leak could not be isolated. You might argue that a HAZOP study should have spotted this, but the quality of HAZOP studies has nosedived!
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The above link is worth watching and it is interesting to see how strict mandates for aviation design are!
Of late, in India, I see a deterioration in design aspects in chemical plants., mainly because of cost cutting pressures and severe competition in the EPC space. This leads to some dilution in design. Let me give you an example. There were two EPC contractors bidding to build a new ammonia storage tank. One of them who was the lowest bidder got the assignment. Tank was erected, commissioned and everything went off well. As time went by, corrosion started affecting the tanks and only then it was noticed that the designer had scrounged on the number of root isolation valves to cut costs. This meant that if there was a leak in an instrument manifold tapping coming from the top of the tank to the bottom, the leak could not be isolated. You might argue that a HAZOP study should have spotted this, but the quality of HAZOP studies has nosedived!
Contribute to the surviving victims of Bhopal by buying my book "Practical Process Safety Management"
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