Fugitive Emissions (FE) certified valves enhance process plants' safety

摘要

Over the past two decades, oil and gas processing facilities have been challenged with increasingly stringent regulatory and legislative requirements impacting environmental health and safety. This is particularly true of the rules governing allowable Fugitive Emissions (FE) from process valves. The very first broadly defined air pollution laws were enacted in the United Kingdom in the 19th century due to concerns stemming from that country's rapid industrialization. The same happened in the United States and Germany during the 1960's. As industrialization has progressed further; limitations have become more specific, a trend which has brought a narrower focus on fugitive emission sources, e.g. industrial valves.