The debottlenecking projects are always challenging since there is a tradeoff between the costs of the project and achieving the new production rate of the plant i.e. achieving the new production rate with optimized cost ...

Managing process safety risk in Natural Gas Liquid (NGL) plant is always a challenging task, especially when it comes to integrating the output of fire and explosion risk analysis into the detail design tasks. Some of which ...

Typically, business supply chain risks are managed separately from fixed facility risks. However, where significant fixed site risk reduction can negatively impact a supply chain, a study that addresses both the supply ...

This abstract describes the importance of the design, integration and testing of control systems as a holistic structure in order to ensure process safety and operability. As a byproduct of today’s era of large projects, ...

This paper reports on experimental and theoretical investigations into the ignition sensitivity of four gas-dust hybrid mixtures consisting of either methane or propane combined with either starch or polyethylene. The ...

Fire that is one of the most serious accidents in chemical factories, may lead to considerable product losses, equipment damages and casualties. With the rapid development of computer vision technology, intelligent fire ...

At the present time, we have two approved USA National Standards on Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS); ANSI/ISA S84.01 and ANSI/ISA S91.01. In addition, there are two international standards presently under development on ...

Achieving full functional safety compliance at a plant will not just happen; it takes a focused effort from dedicated personnel and a supporting management staff. It’s a lot of work, but the potential safety and reliability ...

In the chemical and other related industries, there has been an impetus to produce higher quality products, to reduce rejection rates, limit down time, and to satisfy increasingly stringent safety and environment regulations. ...