One of the questions I got after the CSB Update on the PV failure in KY was…

“Why did they have a Rupture Disc and a Relief Valve together?”

As I alluded to in my post regarding CBS’s update, this arrangement is fairly common but comes with some very SPECIFIC requirements. These requirements can be found in:

  • ASME Section VIII, UG-127
  • National Board, Part 4, 2.5.4
  • API 520, Part II, 9.1

But the top four (4) requirements, we as safety engineers should be looking for in these designs are:

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