VIZA Valves: A Forward-Looking Manufacturer
Valve World Americas pays a visit to VIZA Valves every year as its long-term partner for the opportunity to share information, collaborate on ideas and exchange experiences that shed light on industry changes and business management. We recently had a rewarding talk with Mr. Stephen Zhu, Vice General Manager of VIZA Valves, to provide readers with an insight on the cutting-edge innovations of the valve industry.
Asset Integrity Management Systems: Hazardous Assessment Review Requirements (Basics of HAZOP)
In preparing an accurate time and cost estimate, it is customary for the client to provide the following information: Up-to-date Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams, Process Flow Diagrams (P&IDs and PFDs), Shutdown Key(s), Design Basis Memorandum (DBM), Plot Plan, and, A description of the process steps or unit operations involved.
How Piping Stresses Affect Valves
When designing a new plant, a piping engineer has to make sure that loads imposed by piping on attached equipment does not reach certain limits. Normally, rotating equipment and vessel nozzles are considered possible weak links and thus closely watched. However, valves also need a certain degree of attention, especially when not using flanged connections.
Engineering Engagement: An Interview with Bridget Spencer — Instrument Engineering & Design Department Manager...
As an engineer-turned-manager for Wood’s Instrument Engineering and Design Department, Bridget Spencer helps her team to tackle a diverse range of projects in the upstream and downstream oil and gas sector. Spencer’s leadership style emphasizes knowledge sharing and training.
Three Concerns You Should Have About Valve Safety
Have you ever tried to paddle upstream? You learn very quickly that if you slow down the stroke rhythm, you go back to places you have been. Process safety works the same way – if a company does not train and enforce safety procedures frequently, complacency sets in and bad habits return. Valves, for example, need proper understanding, from the people selecting them to the people being sent to work with them.