INDEX 253
troubleshooting vacuum
system, 1
troubleshooting vacuum systems,
xvi, 18
tube leak, 149
tube support baffles, xxi, 216
turbine, 174
turbine exhaust back-pressure, 176
turbine exhaust steam, 164
turbine exhaust surface
condenser, 198
turbines, 10
turbine speed, 159
turbine's shaft seal, 72
upper explosive limit, 68
Vacuum Breaking, 63
vacuum condensate, 231
vacuum gas oil, 86
vacuum heaters, 218
vacuum heater transfer line, 70
Vacuum Measurement Systems, 37
vacuum pumps, 202
Vacuum Tower Feed Stripping, 92
Vacuum Tower Flash Zone
Pressure, 224
vacuum tower heater, 173
vacuum tower off-gas, 203
vacuum tower operation, 235
vacuum tower seal drums, 81
vacuum tower top pressure, 97
vacuum tower top
pumparound, 225
vapor baffle, 180, 205, 232, 236
Vapor Baffle, xxi
vapor distribution, 216
vapor pressure of the water, 20, 56,
59, 95,166
vapor temperature, 152
Velocity Boost, xxi, 4, 9
Velocity Steam, xxi
Vendor Performance Curve, xxii
Venturi Effect, xxii, 3
visbreaker residue vacuum
flasher, 117
visbreaker vacuum tower, 161
wash oil grid, 138
wash water pH, 132
waste gas, 238
waste gas burner, 184
Waste gas burner fouling, 100
Waste Oil Recovery plant, 183
waxy deposits, 185
wet steam, xxi, 102,141, 226
wet vacuum towers, xxii, 229
Worn Steam Nozzles, 119
Zero Order Reaction, 75
 Troubleshooting Vacuum Systems: Steam Turbine Surface
Condensers and Refinery Vacuum Towers. Norman P. Lieberman.
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