Thermal expansion design margin

Introduction Process engineers are concerned about safety, and we spend a lot of our time considering overpressure protection. A simple example is thermal expansion of a blocked in heat exchanger. The cold cold side warms up, the cold fluid expands a tiny bit and the exchanger ruptures. The solution is to install a small PSV…

Twenty years ago today…

I was digging through an old hard drive and found something that made me smile. It was a GIF animation that I created 20 years ago (give or take a few weeks). No, not something with the qualities to go viral. This was the continuation of simulation work that I did for my PhD thesis.…

Sermon: Choices

I lead the worship service in Innisfail on February 16, 2020. The arrangement of the prayers and hymns was part of my LLWL course. Scripture for the service included Deuteronomy 30:15–20. This became the central theme for the sermon. The other reading was 1Corinthians 3:1–9. This provided the “pie or cake” analogy when the early…