prrine cure _PIPING INTERVIEW QUESTIONNAIRE COMPRESSORS What are the types of compressors? Ans : Positive Displavument, Centrifugal and Axal, rotary screw, rotary vane, rotary lobe, dynamic, liquid ring compressors. 2. What are types of compressor drives? Ans : Electric motor, gas turbine, steam turbine and gas engine. 3. How Centrifugal compressors work ? Ans : Highspeed impellers increase the kinetic energy of the gas, converting this eneray into higher pressures in a divergent outlet passage called a diffuser. Large volume of gas at moderate pressure. 4. What are types of steam turbine and why are they popular? ‘Ans : Condensing and non-condensing, Popular because can convert large amounts of heat energy into mechanical work very efficiently. 5. Where gas turbine drive is used ? Ans : Desserts and offshore platforms where gas is available, for gas transmission, gas lift, liquid pumping, gas re-injection and process compressors, 6 What are the auxillary equipments of compressor? Ans : Lube oil consoles, Seat oil consoles, Surface condensers, Condensate pump, Air blowers, Inlet air filters, Wast heat system, compressor suction drum, knock out pot, Pulsation dampner, volume bottles, Inter and after coolers. 7. What are the types of seal oil system? Ans : Gravity and pressurized. What factors to be considered while designing compressor nousing? Ans ; Operation, Maintenance, Climate conditions, Safety, Economics, 9. What are the compressor housing design points? Ans : Floor elevation, building width, building elevation, hook centerline elevation. |b. What are the types of compressor cases? Ans : Horizontal split case, Vertical spit case. Lt What are compressor suct Ans © Minimum 3D straight pi12. What are necessary parts of inlet line af compressor? Ans : Block Valve, Strainer, Break out flanges in both inlet and outlet to remove casing covers, Straightening vane in inlet line if not enough straight piece in inlet line available, PSV in interstage line and in discharge line before black valve. 15. What points to he considersd Far reciprocating compressor piping layout? Ans : High pulsation, simple line as low to grade as possible for supporting, analog study, all branches close to Ine support and on top, Isolate line support from adjacent compressor or bullding foundations | What are the types of compressor shelters? Ans : On ground with no shelter, Open sided structure with a roof, Curtain wall structure (Temperate climates), Open elevated installation, Elevated multicompressor structure DRUMS 15, What are drum internals? ‘Ans : Demister pads, Baffles, Vortex breakers, Distribution piping. 6, What are drum elevation requirements? Ans : NPSH, minimum clearance, common platforming, maintenance, operator access. 17. What are drum supports? Ans : Skirt for large drums, legs, lugs, saddles for horizontal drums. 18, What are necessary nozzles for non-pressure vessel? Ans : Inlet, outlet, vent, manhole, drain, overflow, agitator, temperature element, level instrument, and steamout connection 19. What are necessary nozzies for pressure vessel? Ans : Inlet, outlet, manhole, drain, pressure relief, agitator, level guage, pressure gauge, temperature element, vent and for steamout, 20. What is preferred location for level instrument nozzles? ‘Ans : Aviay from the turbulence at the liquid outlst nozzle, although the vessel is provided with a vortex breaker, instrument should be set in the quiet zone of the vessel for example an the opposite side of the weir or nat is preferred locatior Minimum from the tangent lineING GUIDE 22, What is preferred location for steam out nozzle om drum? Ans : At the end opposite to the maintenance access. What is preferred location for vent ? ‘Ans : AT the top section of drum at the end oppo: connecton, the steam out 24. What is proferred location for pressure instrunvent nuzele on drum? ‘Ans : Must be anywhere in the vapor space, preferable at the top section of drum What is preferred location for temperature instrument? ‘Ans : Must be in liquid space, preferably on the bottom section of drum, 26. What Is preferred location for drain? Ans : Must be located at the bottom section of crum.PIPING GUIDE __ PIPING INTERVIEW QUESTIONNAIRE |. What are instrument categories? Ans : General, flow, temperature, pressure, leval, density et 2. Which instruments are handlled by piping department ? Ans : tlame arrestor, breather valve. 3. What are basic functions of instruments? Ans : To sense, transmit, indicate, read and cortrol. 4. Why block valve is used at the root of an instrument like pressure Indicator? Ans : They are needed to isolate gages for maintenance during plant operation and during hydrostatic testing of piping system. They are called root valve, 5. Where diaphragm assembly is used ? Ans : For corrosive, abrasive, viscous fluids. Neutral fluid like glycol is Used on instrument side of diaphragm, © Where and why bleed valve is used in instruments ? ‘Ans : If the conveyed fluid is hazardous or under high pressure, a branch fitted with a bleed valve is inserted between the gage and its isolating valve, to relieve pressure and /or drain the liquid before servicing the ‘gage. It can also be used to sample or for adding a comparison gage. 7. Why control valves are usually flanged? ‘Ans : For ease of installation and removal during maintenance. 8. Where ball control valve is used? Ans : Suitable where nature of fluid is slurry form or handling two phase flow having particle in suspension, for non-critica and critical fluids having a fluid temperature to suit the soft seat material and where relatively low pressure drop is required across control valve. They have side mounted actuator. 9. Where butterfly control valve is used ? ‘Ans : Used for large size piping network handling clean fluid for low pressure drop across control valve and soft seated control valve. Metal seated valves used for higher temperatures 1 How control vaive block valves should be located ? Ans : They should be as close to contral vaive as possible, considering drain requirement and handwneel clearance, At least one of the biock valve should be placed in vertical so that spool can be removed alfowin control valve to be re|. How TSO valve should be installed ? Ans : Tight shut off (TSO) vaive or reduced por: ball contrl valve should be installed in vertical for gas service and horizcntal ok for liquid service. 1 How bypass valve in control station should be located? Ans : Near inlet branch point, not above control vaive, with 200mm clearance between actuator and valve, 13. How control station should be supported ? Ans : It should be supported such that control station piping Is self supporting even if the control vaive is removed. Normally, on exit side elbows of bottom run of control vaive. 4. Why and where drain should be located in control vaive assembly ? Ans : Drain is used to drain the piping between two block valves on two sides of control valve before removing control valve for maintenance. It ‘must be located at lowest point of bottom run. Cne drain is used if control valve is fails open, and two drain used if control valve fails close, as both sides are blocked in this case. For one drain, it sould be upstream side of control valve, 15, Where reducer shall be located in control valve assembly ? Ans : As close as possible to control valve, preferably directly welded contro! valve flanges. 6, How breakup flanges for control valve should be located ? ‘Ans : One vertical and one horizontal which is achieved by having one block valve in vertical leg of control valve inlet. Co not place support on inlet elbow. 17. What are the types of flow measuring devices? Ans : Orifice plate, Variable area flow meter i.e. rotameter, magnetic flow meter, turbine flow meter, positive displacement meter, 18. What is piping and instrument scope of supply for orifice meter ? ‘Ans : Piping provided gaskets and baits and tapping from orifice plate to two block valves. Instrument provides orifice plate and flange assembly and connection down stream of block valves. 19. How orifice flange taps should be oriented ? ‘Ans : For liquid and steam, it should be horizontel or 45 degree down from horizontal on both sides. For gas and vapor lines, it should be vertical or 45 to vertical on both sides, Taps are 0.5 inch 20. What are straight run requirements of orifice plate ? Ans : Inlet straight run requiremer © 15D to 200 and outlet n requirement 5D min. It depends on piping configuration and d/D ration i.e, ration of inside ia of orifice plate end pipe. itis to be confirmed with instrument engineer in instrume ication of projectPIPING GUIDE 21, What are straight run requirements for vortex meters? Ans : 50 upstream. Where restriction orifice plates are used ? Ans : For effective distribution of fluid in piping net 25 What are types of level measurement? ‘Ans ; Direct and inferential 24. What are direct methods of level measurement? Ans : Gauge glasses, reflex or transparent, calibrated tapes or dip sticks Placed in vessel and calibrated directly in level or volume. 25. What are inferential methads of level measurement? Ans : Hydrotatic head, buoyancy, conductance, radiation, float. 26. What is hydrostatic head type level transmitter.? Ans : Installed directly on nozzle, uses pressure sensing assembly to get the level. Diaphragm type used far liquids with solids, 27. What are pressure instruments used in chemical industries? ‘Ans : Manometers, bourden tubes, bellows and diaphragms 28. What are manometers? Ans : Single or U type glass tube with mercury or other fluid. Inclined tube for very low pressure measurement used. 29, What are types of bourdon tubes? ‘Ans = C, the spiral and helical, most widely used since 100 years. 50. What are temperature measuring instruments? Ans : Thermocouples, resistance temperature detectors, filled system, bimetallic thermometer, thermowells, 31. What thermocouple metals normally used? ‘Ans : Iron + Constantine, Chrome! + Alumel etc 12, How resistance thermocouples work ? Ans : Electrical resistance of 3 conductor changes with temperature. 433. How filled system temperature element work ? ‘Ans : Bourdon tube, filled with liquid, liquid expands, bourdoun tube indicates on scale temperature. How bimetaitic Ans : Different expansion of different metals bends the ndicate temperature. Invar and Nickel pair used.38 What is minimum pipe size required for thermowelt installation? Ans)" ACK So. What are design considerations fur pipe rack ? ‘Ans : Rack width, no of levels and elevations, bent spacing, pipe flexibility, Access and maintenance of each item in pipe rack. 37. What are steps in rack design? ‘Ans : Generate line routine diagram, Calculate tent spacing, set width of rack, decide elevations and levels, 38. What is pipe bent? Ans : Pipe bent consists of a vertical column or columns and a horizontal structural member or members that carry piping systems, usually above the headroom. 39. What factors affect pipe span? Ans : Size, Schedule, liquid or vapor, Insulated or bare pipe. 40. What are spandrels? Ans : Horizontal structural members located along the longitudinal centerline that are used for structural stability, p pe support or intermediate pipe bents. 41 Which lines placed where in rack ? Ans : Process lines on lower level, utility lines on top level, instrument ‘and cable trays on utlity level or separate topmost level, Heavy lines near columns, Flare line outside rack on cantilever beams or inside rack above top level , steam lines with expansion loops on one side of rack, line s with orifice runs on one side of rack beside colur'ns for maintenance using portable ladder. 42. How much extra space required for rack ? Ans : 20 % extra for future lines, 45. How to route steam lines on rack ? ‘Ans : Steam headers on top level or rack, determine growth by ‘multiplying coefficient (From nomograph) of expansion by length of line. Try anchor in middle, determine growth of each branch and see weather he have enough flexibility, if not anchor at V4 th distance on both sides, Jetermine amount of expansion leg from nom: and deci expansion teg should be located orINSULATION 44. What insulating materials are used ? Ans : Asbestos, calcium silicate, cellular glass, cellular silica, diatomaceous silica plus asbestos, Mineral fiber, mineral wool, magnesia, polyeurothene foam.__ PIPING INTERVIEW QUESTIONNAIRE _ What are the steps in selection of valve? Ans : What to handle, liquid, gas or powder, flud nature, function, construction material, disc type, stem type, how to operate, bonnet type, body ends, delivery time, cost, warranty 2. What are functions of valves? ‘Ans : Isolation, regulation, non-return and specal purposes. 3. What are isolating valves? Ans : Gate, ball, plug, piston, diaphragm, butterfly, pinch. 4 What are regulation valves? Ans : Globe, needle, butterfiy, diaphragm, piston, pinch, 5. What are non-return valves? ‘Ans : check valve, 6. What are special valves? Ans : multi-port, flush bottom, float, foot, pressure relief, breather. 7. What materials are used for construction of valves? Ans : Cast iron, bronze, gun metal, carbon steel, stainless steel, alloy carbon steel, polypropylene and other plastics, special alloys, 8. Whatis trim? Ans : Trim is composed of stem, seat surfaces, back seat bushing and ‘other small internal parts that normally contact the surface fluid 9. Which standard specifies trim numbers for valve ? Ans AP! 600. 0. What are wetted parts of valve? Ans : All parts that come in contact with surface fluid are called wetted parts 11. What is wire drawing? Ans : This term is used to indicate the premature erosion of the valve seat caused by excessive velocity between seat and seat disc, when valve is not closed tightly. > What is straight through Ans : Valve in which the closing operation of valve is achieved by S0degrees turn of the ciosing element 13, What tests are carried out on valve! Ans : Shell-hydrostatic, sea static, Seat| What are available valve operators? Ans : Handlever, handwheel, chain operator, gear aperator, powered operator likes electric motor, solenoid, pneumatic and hydraulic operators, Quick acting operators far non-rotary valves (handle life) 15. What are two types of ball valve? {Ans © Full port design and ragular port dasign, according to type of seat, soft seat and metal seat 16, What are ball valve body types? Ans : Single piece, double piece, three piece, the short pattern, long pattern, sandwitch’ and flush bottom design 17. Why ball valves are normally flanged? Ans : Because of soft seat PTFE which can damage during welding 1s. What are butterfly vaive types? ‘Ans : Double flange type, wafer lug type and wafer type, 19, What are types of check valve? Ans : Lift check valves and swing check valves. 20, What are nion-slam check valves? ‘Ans : Swing check valve, conventional check valve, wafer check valve, tilting disc check valve, piston check valve, stop check valve, ball check valve. 21, Where stop check valve is used ? ‘Ans : In stem generation by multiple boilers, where a valve is inserted between each boiler and the main steam header. It can be optionally closed automatically or normally 22, Where diaphragm valves are used ? ‘Ans : Used for low pressure corrosive services as shut off valves, 23. What is Barstock Valve? ‘Ans: Any valve having a body machined from sclid metal (barstack). Usually needle or globe type. 24. What is BIBB Valve? Ans: A small vaive with turned down end, like a faucet. 25. What is Bleed Vaive? Ans: Small valve provided for drawing off liquid 26. What is BlowDow » Valve?Ans Refers to a plug type dise globe or removing sludge and sedimentary matter from the bott 3, vessels, driplegs etc, 27. What is Breather Valve? ‘Ans: A special self acting valve installed on storage tanks ete. to release vapor or gas on slight increase of internal pressure ( in the region of ¥ to 3 ounces per square inch) 28. What is Drip Valve? Ans: A drain valve fitted to the bottom of a driplet to permit blowdown, 29, What is Flap Valve? ‘Ans: A non return valve having a hinged disc or rubber oF leather flap used for low pressure lines. 30. What is Hose Valve? ‘Ans: A gate or globe valve having one of its encs externally threaded to one of the hose thread standards in use in the USA, These valves are Used for vehicular and firewater connections, 31, What is Paper-Stock Valve? Ans: A single disc single seat gate valve (Slide gate) with knife edged or notched disc used to regulate flow of paper slurry or other fibrous slurry, 32. What is Root Valve? Ans: A valve used to isolate a pressure element or instrument from a line or vessel, or a valve placed at the beginning af a branch form the header. What is Slurry valve? A knife edge valve used to control flow of non-abrasive slurries, 34. What is Spiral sock valve? Ans: A valve used to contral flow of powders by means of a twistable fabric tube or sock. 35. What is Throttling valve? ‘Ans: Any valve used to closely regulate flow in the just-open position. 36. What is Vacuum breaker? ‘Ans: A special self-acting valve or nay valve suitable for vacuum service, operated manually or automatically, installed to admit gas (usually stmospheric air) into a vacuum ar low-pressure space. Such valves are What is Quick acting valve ?‘Ans: Any on/olf valve rapidly operable, either by manual lever, spring or by piston, solenoid or lever with heat-fusible link releasing a weight whi in falling operates the valve. Quick acting valves are desirable in lines conveying flammable liquids. Unsuitable for water or for liquid service in general without a cushioning device to protect piping from shock 2%, What ie diverting valve ? Ans : This valve switch flow from one main line to two different outlets \WYE type and pneumatic control type with no moving part. 39. What is sampling valve? Ans : Usually of needle or globe pattern, placed in branch line for the Purpose of drawing all samples of process mater al thru the branch, 440, What are blow off valve? ‘Ans ; Itis a variety of globe valve confirming with boller code requirements and specially designed for boiler biawotf service. WYE pattern and angle type, used to remove air and other gases from boilers ete. 41, What is relief valve? Ans : Valve to relieve excess pressure in liquids in situations where full flow discharge is not required, when release of small volume of liquid would rapidly lower pressure. 42. What is safety valve? ‘Ans : Rapid opening(popping action) full flow valve for alr and other gases. 43, What is foot valve? ‘Ans : Valve used to maintain a head of water on the suction side of sump pump, basically a lift check valve with integrated strainer. 444, What is float valve? Ans : Used to control liquid level in tanks, operated by float, which rises with liquid level and opens the valve to control water level, Tt can also remove air from system, in which case, air flows aut of system in valve ‘open condition, but when water reaches valve, float inside valve raises to close the vaive and stop flow of water. Used in drip legs, 45. What are flush bottom valves? Ans : Special type of valves used to drain out the piping, reactors and vessels, attached on pad type nozzles. Ans : Valves with discs opening into t the valve valves with disks into47, What are the uses of three-way valve? Ans ; Aiternate connection of the two supply lines to a common delivery vise versa, isolating one safety valve, divisian af flow with isolation Faciity 48 What are uses of four way valve? Ans : Reversal af pump suction and delivery, By pass of strainer or meter, reversal of flow through filter, heat exchanger ur uryer 49, What is metal seated lubricated plug valve? Ans : A plug valve with no plastic material, whee grease is applied to contacting surfaces for easy operation. 50, What are three patterns of plug valve design? Ans : Regular pattern, short pattern and ventury pattern 51. What is regular pattern plug valve? ‘Ans : Rectangular port, area almost equal to pipe bore, smooth transition from round body to rectangular port, for minimum pressure loss. 52. What are short pattern plug valve? Ans : Valves with face to face dimension of gate valve, as a alternative to gate valve. 53, What are ventury pattern plug valve? ‘Ans : Change of section through the body throat so graded to have ventury effect, minimum pressure loss. 54 What are inverted plug design valve? ‘Ans : Plug valve with taper portion up of plug. For 8” and higher size. 55, What is pressure balanced plug valve? ‘Ans : With holes in port top and bottom connecting two chambers on top and bottom of plug, to reduce turning effort. 6. What are Teflon sleeved plug valve? ‘Ans : PTFE sleeve between plug and body of valve, low turning effort, minimum friction, temperature limitation, anti static design possible. 57. What are permasil plug valve? Ans : Plug valves with Teflon seat instead of sleeves, for on off applications, can handle clean viscous and corrosive ligiuids, Graphite seat for high temperature applications. Drip tight shut off not possible nat are eccentric plug valve? Ans © Of center plug, 00 maves into and awa) from seat eliminating abrasive wear 9. What is dimensional standard for piug valve?Ans : Api 599, i, What is pinch valve? Ans : Similar to diaphragm valve, with sleeves of rubber or PTFE, which get sqeezed to controt or stop the flow, Cast iron body, for very low service pressures like isolation of hose connections, manufacture standard, 1. What is needle valve? Ans :Full pyramid disc, same design as globe velve, smaller sizes, sw or threaded, flow control, disc can be integral with stem, inside screw, borged or barstock body and bonnet, manufacturers standard 62, How to install a globe valve ? Ans : Globe valve should be installed such that the flow is from the underside of the disk, Usually flow direction is marked on the globe valve. ‘03, What are globe vaive port types? ‘Ans : Full port: More than 85% of bore size, Reducer port: One size less than the connected pipe. ‘64, What are globe valve disk types? Ans :Flat faced type for positive shutoff, loose plug type for plug renewal or needle type for finer control. 68. What are characteristics of globe valve stem? Ans : Always rising design, with disk nut at the lower end and handwheel at upper end, (66, What are types of globe valve? Ans ; Angle globe valve, plug type disc globe valve, wye-body globe valve, composite disc globe valve, double disc globe valve, 67. What is angle globe valve? Ans : Ends at 90 degree to save elbow, higher pressure drop. 68. Where plug type disc globe vaive is used? ‘Ans ; For severe regulating service with gritty liquids such as boiler feedwater and for blow off service. 69. Where WYE body globe valve is used ? Ans : In line ports with stem emerging at 45 degree, for erosive fluids due to smoother flow pattern. 1) What 1s double disc globe valve ? Ans * Has tivo discs bearing on separate seats spaced apart le shaft, for low torque, used for control valves What are port types for gate vaives?Ans : Full port and reduced port. Default is reduced bore. Full port has to be specified in bor 72. How to close a gate valve ? ‘Ans :Turn the handwheel in clockwise direction What is lantern ring? Ans : I's a collection point to drain off any hazardous seepages or as a Point where lubricant can be injected, itis in the middle of packing rings, 74 What are types of gate valves? Ans : Solid plane wedge, solid flexible wedge, salit wedge, double disc paralles seats, double disc wedge, single disc single seat gate or slide, single disc parallel seats, plug gate valve. 75, What are the types of bonnets? Ans : Bolted bonnet, bellow sealed bonnet, screed on bonnet, union bonnets, A U-bolt and clamp type bonnet, breechiock bonnet, pressure seal bonnet,__PIPING INTERVIEW QUESTIONNAIRE PUMPS |. What is NPSH ? ‘Ans : IC is measure of the pressure drop of the iquid as it moves form the inlet of the pump to the eye of the impeller, determined by testing and expressed in feet of water by pump manufacturer. 2. What is cavitation ? ‘Ans : Cavitation is a rapid collapse of vapor pressure that can produce ‘oise, result in loss of head and capacity and create a severe erosion of the impeller and casing surface in the adjacent inlet areas. 3. What is velocity head? Ans ; The head loss caused by the consumed power to accelerate stationary fluid to suction line velocity during pump startup. Its about 1 ft 4. What is standard for petroleum pumps? Ans : API 610 is the standard for centrifugal puryps in petroleum Industry, 5. Where positive displacement pumps are used ? Ans ; Used to move viscous liquids, injects cherricals or additives into a system, or pump quantities too small for centrifugal pumps, © What are types of rotary pumps ? Ans : External Gear, Cam and piston, two lobe, three lobw, single screw, Two screw, 7. Where rotary pumps are used ? ‘Ans : For viscous liquids that are free of hard and abrasive fluids. Where should boiler feed water pumps be located ? ‘Ans ; They take water from a deaerator and generally operate close to the vapor pressure of the liquid, hence they must be located as close to the deaerator as possible. 8. Tell something about vertical pumps ? Ans : Used where low available NPSH is not sufficient, for surface Condenser, for waste material in concrete pit, screen at the bottom, Iu. Where centrifugal pumps ir Ans directly velow tower, may bs rt dischargPIPING GUIDE Ans line should be supported as close to the top elbow as Possible and should be within five diameters of that elbow, using spring Support. 1. How suction line is supported? ‘Ans : Commonly supported under the elbow adjacent to the pump nozzle. 12. How the suction line reducer should be placed ? Ans : It should be placed top fla. 1M, What are suction line requirements? Ans : To flat reducer, strainer, block valve, no pockets, as short as Possible with consideration to Stress, min straight length of 3D. 15, What are the requirements of discharge piping? Ans : Reducer, Pressure indicator, check valve, black valve, min, stress, support at top elbow. 1, What is accepted distance between pumps? Ans : 1200 MM'/ 4 feet. '7, What is special requirement for discharge line of positive displacement pump? ‘Ans : Relief valve whose discharge is connected in suction line between the isolating valve and the pump, REACTOR 18 Tell about reactor? Ans : Heart, mixing, chemical reaction, heat generated-absorbed, agitation, jacket, heating coils, cooling, INACES 19. Where furnaces shall be located ? ‘Ans : Furnaces shall be located upwind or side wnd of process units to blow any combustible leaks away from the open flame, Min 90M away from tanks and 30M away from control room,1G GUIDE SPIRAL HEAT EXCHANGERS >| Where spiral heat exchangers are used? Ans : Generally in chemical plants 22. How piping is positioned for spiral heat exchanters ? ‘Ans: Piping positioned to allow opening of covers and the removal plates AND TUBE HEAT EXCHANGE! 25 What are the types of tube arrangments? Ans : U-tube, Fixed tube, kettle arrangement. 24, What is full form of TEMA? Ans : Tubular exchangers manufacturers Association. 25. Which fluids to be sent through tubes? Ans ; Fouling and/or corrosive fluids (Easy cleaning and cheaper to replace tubes than shell), hotter fluid : To reduce heat loss to the surroundings except steam., refrigerant, cooling fluid. 26, What should be clearance between flanges of exchangers? Ans : 1000 MM, PLATE EXCHANGERS 27, Where plate exchangers are used ? Ans : Low pressure, low temperature applications, UBLE PIPE OR FI EXCH 28 Where used ? ‘Ans : Used when liquid has a greater resistance to heat flow than another fr wihen the surface area is small AIR COOLER EXCHANGERSAns : To cool tower overhead v LPG STORAGE 80. How to group LPG Vessels ? Ans : Max 6 Vessels, total capacity 15,000 cum, curb wall, distance between vessels of different groups 30M, separate dedicated manifold for each group, 31. Where to located LPG Storage ? ‘Ans : Downwind of process units, important buildings and facilities, not in same dyke where other flammable liquid HC’s stored, single row in case of spheres and bullets, not one above the other, bullet head not toward ‘ther vessel, no dip ditch to avoid LPG Settling, How to operate LPG Cylinders ? Ans : Separate area for empty and filled cylinders, Cylinders vertical, not near other gase cylinders, never below grade, smooth trucking traffic,