Adam Attig & Ricardo Garcia presented Eliminating Unseen Threats: Innovation in Bellows Leak Detection for PRVs at the 2024 4C Health, Safety & Environmental Conference.
Driving Down Emissions with Pressure Relief Valve Leak Detection
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Adam Attig is an experienced Product Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the mechanical or industrial engineering industry. He is skilled in Product Lifecycle Management, Go-to-market Strategy, Pricing Strategy, Market Research, and Management.
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Detecting Bellows Damage in Pressure Relief Valves
Pressure relief valves (PRVs) provide critical overpressure protection in many industries by venting excess process media when necessary. PRVs often include bellows in applications with relief valve headers subject to backpressure, but bellows may be damaged by cycling or corrosive chemical applications, causing significant performance impacts and environmental leakage that may go unnoticed for years.
An Alternative Solution to Bellows Failure with Balanced Diaphragm Technology
This article discusses a recently introduced PRV design that replaces bellows with a balanced diaphragm. This new balancing technology can be installed as an upgrade to standard bellows PRVs, and it extends backpressure limits while providing greater flow capacity than a similarly sized balanced bellows PRV.
Improving Pressure Relief Valve Safety, Reliability and Performance
In this 4:43 YouTube video, Beyond Safety: The Crosby Bellows Leak Detection Solution ensures Balanced Operation, Emerson’s Adam Attig and Ricardo Garcia show how the Bellows Leak Detection solution ensures balanced operation with a backup piston and reduces emissions by over 90% in the event of a bellows rupture.
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