Valve Selection Handbook

R.W. Zappe is a retired consultant for ICI Australia Operations Pty. Ltd., where he had been employed since 1950. A graduate of Technical University Wuppertal in mechanical engineering, he also worked for Dragerwerk, Lubeck as a design engineer for respiratory equipment until he founded a small manufacturing company in Hamburg.

Introduction. Fundamentals. Manual valves. Check valves. Pressure relief valves. Rupture discs. Sizing pressure relief devices. Appendix A: Properties of fluids. Appendix B: ASME code pressure relief valve rules. Appendix C: International systems of units (SI). References. Index.