Pressure Build Up in Confined

Container
Yudhistira Hayuatma
PT. Medco E&P Indonesia
Jakarta, 14 August 2023
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 Confined Container
Definition

• A vessel or receptacle that is designed to hold

and enclose substances, materials, or items
within a specific space.
• The term "confined" implies that the container
has boundaries that restrict the movement or
dispersion of its contents beyond those
boundaries.
Example

• Isolated pipe segment or pipeline.

• Isolated vessel.

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 Why is it important?

Can lead to process safety incident

• Pipe rupture.
• Vessel rupture.
• Valve leak.
• Flange leak

Often not properly identified

• Not part of normal process.
Freeport LNG Explosion Root Cause • Often underestimated
https://medcoenergi.sharepoint.com/: • Some case are counter intuitive
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 How to Estimate

Constants:
• Mass/Moles
V • Volume

P, T, m or n
Variables:
• Pressure
• Temperature

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 How to Estimate
Ideal Gas
PV = nRT
Arranging all constant to the right:
P/T = nR/V
So:
P1/T1=P2/T2
Non Ideal Gas and Liquid?
• Non ideal have compressibility factor that changes with
P and T
• Liquid and mixture have each specific density and vary
with P and T

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 How to Estimate with Aspen Hysys

Composition Aspen Hysys

Pressure
Property
Variables: Density

Temperature
Estimate
What we want:
Composition Aspen Hysys
Property Pressure

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Temperature
Estimate
 How to Estimate with Aspen Hysys Workaround
Target density is the
Composition Aspen Hysys density when the
container not yet isolated

Temperature
Property
Variables: Density

Pressure
Estimate

Adjust
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 How accurate?
Case study:
IFI-ENG-PEN-RPT-ADH-2019-0005-TPNR 007 2019 079 PSV 8003 Passing.pdf

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