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Combining Rupture Disks with Safety Relief Valves

| By Geof Brazier, BS&B Safety Sytems, LLC

Protecting process systems from overpressurization is vital throughout the chemical process industries (CPI). Both safety relief valves and rupture disks are commonly used for this purpose. Sometimes the combination of a relief valve with a rupture disk…