FLOW CHARACTERISTICS AND PERFORMANCE OF SAFETY VALVES

September 9-11, 2013

Rhode-St-Genèse, Belgium

The objective of this 3-day lecture series is to provide a state of the art of flow modeling of control and safety devices with peculiar emphasis given to safety relief valves.  Proper sizing and design of such equipment requires knowledge of flow and thermodynamic conditions upstream and downstream of the device, physical and thermal properties of the fluid(s).  It is worth noting that two-phase flow is now frequently encountered in various relief processes. Thus situation becomes considerably more complex due to the large number of variables associated with the interaction of the phases and possible flashing occurrence.

Experts coming from the scientific, industrial and technological communities will discus their day-to-day experience exemplifying, nuclear, chemical and cryogenic  applications.

The Lecture Series co-directors are Dr. Saïd Chabane from Technical Center for Mechanical Engineering, Cetim, in Nantes (France) and Prof. Jean-Marie Buchlin from the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics in Rhode-Saint-Genèse (Belgium).

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