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eLearning and Learning Management Systems (LMS) were taken to new heights in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic as training shifted online across the globe. This shift altered how industries viewed risk and hazard management and posed new challenges for training and compliance.

Chemical processing facilities need reliable emergency response plans and systems (ERPS) in order to manage technological risks to plant personnel, the surrounding communities, and the environment.

The handling, use, processing and storage of hazardous materials will always present risk. The goal of process safety management is to consistently reduce risk to a level that can be tolerated by all concerned - by facility staff, company management, surrounding communities, the public at large, and industry and governmental agencies.

Fatigue failure of relief and/or process piping caused by vibration can develop due to the conversion of flow mechanical energy to noise. Factors that have led to an increasing incidence of noise vibration related fatigue failures in piping systems include but are not limited to

This paper describes a method for identification of major acute risks in existing process facilities that have potential for serious impacts to on-site and offsite populations, and for prioritization of mitigating measures.

A classic scenario in risk assessments is the exposure of process/storage vessels and piping to an external pool fire or a jet fire. The heat from a fire causes the temperature of the metal walls to increase and subsequent heat transfer from the metal walls causes the pressure and temperature of the vessel and piping contents to increase.

Direct scale-up methods have been used to develop relief requirements and vent sizing for runaway reactions since the early 1990s. Direct scale-up methods have been popular because one is able to measure in a laboratory test the required relief size in equivalent vent area per unit mass of a reacting mixture, in 2/kg, and then scale it up to plant scale equipment sizes.

Reliable flow estimates are essential for the sizing and selection of process equipment including but not limited to relief devices, process piping, and depressuring systems. In addition, reliable flow estimates from loss of containment scenarios can significantly influence the quality of consequence, risk analysis, and facility siting studies as well.

This paper provides concise and structured documentation to be used as a “guideline” when conducting Hazard & Operability (HAZOP) studies. It collects and summarizes key tables, figures, and checklists placed in chronological order according to the sequential phases that define the HAZOP Management System (HMS).

A common scenario that is encountered in pressure relief systems design centers around the calculation of vapor generation rates from liquids under external heating, internal heating, or fire exposure. Pressure relief design is all about a volume balance. As the heating increases the liquid temperature and generates more vapor (volume) in a vessel, the pressure increases to fit the additional vapor generation (volume created) within the confines of the vessel.

High viscosity two-phase flow occurs in many industrial scale reactors handling polymer systems. For example, a runaway reaction in a monomer tank can lead to high viscosity two phase flow.

Flame arresters are used in chemical processing facilities to prevent flames from burning into process vessels during either emergency relief or normal operations. Flame arresters work by forcing the flame through one or more narrow passages that are long enough to decelerate the flow and increase the residence time for heat transfer and that are small enough to increase heat loss from the flame surface to prevent the flame from propagating.