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Marc Hellemans holds a masters degree in electro mechanics and started end of the 70-ies working in the Flow Control business. More particular he specialized in Pressure Relief Devices in the process industry.

He ended his long corporate career with Tyco Flow Control in 2008, where he held various senior management positions: Vice President Sales & Marketing for the Engineered Products group (Flow Control & Automation). Managing Director for a manufacturing plant of a major brand pressure relief devices (Anderson Greenwood Crosby). He was part of the M&A team of Tyco Flow Control and realized various mergers & acquisitions and managed the restructurings.

Since 2008 he is managing partner at Vh Consult where he is working as a senior consultant in the field of overpressure protection in the process industry and where he is active worldwide in consulting both end users and pressure relief device manufacturers on overpressure protection. Conducting many trainings and lectures all over the world in particular the Middle East and South East Asia.
Author of the book: “The Safety Relief Valve Handbook” published by Elsevier and various articles on Flow Control, Pressure Relief and Marketing published by Kluwer.

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Overpressure Protection in the Process Industry provides a practical and pragmatic guidance for everyone dealing with overpressure protection in the process industry in all its aspects. The book explains the background of the many complicated international codes and regulations.

This book offers a pragmatic and practical approach on how the codes – that, generally, do not address specific industries or applications outside the oil & gas industry – can be interpreted for specific cases and provides practical solutions. It also gives a critical view on these codes and regulations and where they make sense or not and even challenges them in some instances with some technical and practical argumentations. It addresses the overpressure protection design philosophy while complying in a pragmatic way with those codes and regulations.

Overpressure Protection in the Process Industry also provides guidance on how to keep overpressure installations in processes up to date and offers ideas on lifecycle management and the management of change. The book compares and recommends on the different types of overpressure protection and the different layers thereof and includes practical check lists for the proper functionality of the overpressure protection. Finally, the book covers specific problem area’s and sizing methods when using safety relief devices as overpressure protection such as how to handle: installation, backpressures, blowdowns, the 3% rule, types of chatter and other destructive forces in relief devices.