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Valves and Fugitive Emissions

Fugitive emissions, which are unintended emissions of gases or vapors from pressurized plant components, have long been a key concern for operators of oil and gas, chemical and petrochemical plants as well as federal and state regulators.

When you select fugitive emissions compliant valves, you are getting numerous benefits:

• Safety advantage: limiting employees' direct exposure to harmful products.
• Economic advantage: saving more of the process fluids and assuring shareholders that production processes are conducted efficiently.
• Environmental advantage: minimizing the greenhouse effect on the environment and curtailing global warning.
• Legal advantage: avoiding fines from local and federal regulators.

• Fugitive Emissions

Amr Gado

• 3 Oct 2017 2:55 PM
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• TEJAS JADWANI

  

  • 3 Oct 2017 5:49 PM

  Hello I agree with importance of the valve with fugitive emission and that requires special certified packing for these. However I have inspected planty of valves at reputed vendor with fugitive emission requirements however many of them are not meeting with standard requirements level of leakage. During Further investigation it was found that the torque value on packing were not applied properly that resulted into leakage. What I feel is, it's not only just by packing you are achieving all the stated advantages of fugitive emission if it's been not taken care properly during production.

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• Amr Gado

  

  • 4 Oct 2017 7:14 PM

  In reply to TEJAS JADWANI:

  Absolutely true. It takes 3 thing for a successful application; design, production, and installation. Only if all three are done right is a valve truly capable of reducing emissions.
  A good practice is to check the valve during installation and then again a week or so after operation.

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