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As we enter 2020, most of us have already taken a moment to reflect on last year’s successes and failures. (At least on a personal level.) A somewhat painful and unavoidable exercise that helps to guide your future self’s decisions in the upcoming year.

However, how many have taken stock of our past decade’s personal successes and failures? If you haven’t, quickly give it a shot right now.

Establishing and maintaining an effective safety culture is a symphony of challenges and moving pieces.

Too often, those responsible engineers are stretched thin with competing priorities. Smith & Burgess is here to help. Our culmination of Process Safety knowledge enables us to quickly provide our clients with practical solutions that lead to compliance, significant cost-savings, and of course, peak facility safety.

Did you know, the allowable total backpressure for a conventional valve can be larger than 10% of the set pressure? According to API 520-1 §5.3.3.1.3:

"In a conventional PRV application, when the allowable overpressure is 10%, the built-up backpressure should not exceed 10% of the set pressure. A higher maximum allowable built-up backpressure may be used for allowable overpressures greater than 10 % provided the built-up backpressure does not exceed the allowable overpressure."