Laboratory Testing

Providing reliable, efficient and affordable test plan development, testing and analysis to help reduce hazards that you may otherwise not be aware of.

An ISO accredited, ultramodern testing facility whose experienced professionals will help you define what you need, conduct the testing, interpret the data, and conduct detailed analysis. All with the goal of helping you identify your hazards, define and control your risk.

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Featured Services

Battery Safety Testing

Years of experience testing for performance and safety concerns, such as capacity fade, overheating, release of toxic gases and even fire. Read more...

Chemical Reactivity Testing

Providing the data needed to meet process safety management (PSM) regulatory requirements, such as process limits, fine-tune process specifications and complete emergency relief system (ERS) design. Read more...

Combustible Dust Testing

Experienced in conducting thermal analysis and combustible dust characterization testing to determine if dusts such as metal, coal, organic, plastic, wood, textile or others are combustible or explosible. Read more...

Flammability Testing

Certain ASTM and ISO flammability standards require the testing and evaluation of the ignition, burning, or combustion characteristics of certain building materials, as well as common household and commercial furniture. Read more...

Physical Properties Measurement

Accurate physical and chemical properties are important to designing and controlling chemical operations. Our laboratory can determine the density, speed of sound, heat capacity or viscosity in chemical operations. Read more...

Specialized Testing

​Helping our clients address the unique challenges faced by the chemical, oil and gas, pharmaceutical, agricultural, biotechnical, explosives, food and beverage, lumber and sawmill facilities industries. Read more...

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Meet Our Team

Georges A. Melhem, Ph.D., FAIChE

President & CEO The founder of ioMosaic and internationally renowned expert in the areas of pressure relief and flare systems design, chemical reaction systems, process safety and risk analysis. Read more...

Enio Kumpinsky, Ph.D.

Principal Consultant Senior authority with over 35 years of diversified experience in process safety in the chemical manufacturing industry. Read more...

Featured Videos

 

Process Safety Lessons Learned from Boeing Battery Fire

On January 7, 2013, a lithium-ion battery caught fire on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Watch this PStv® Safety Moment for an examination of the root causes of this incident and the implications for electric vehicles.  In this video, we also present process safety design lessons learned to help you prevent future incidents. 

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Featured Case Study

Validate Relief System Performance and Flare System Capacity for Increased Unit Charge Rate

A major petroleum company recently increased production capacity and required an analysis of its existing relief systems to validate performance and design. As a result of increasing production capacity and debottlenecking studies, several refinery units were found to be operating at charge rates higher than the design basis for the relief systems documentation.

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When a tank car failed at a customer’s plant, a release of toxic gas occurred. Our client, the supplier of the chemical, was the subject of a class action lawsuit.
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An international oil company was preparing to startup a state of the art acid gas injection facility and needed to benchmark against current industry practices for handling large quantities of toxic gas at high pressure.

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A supplier was being sued because his product, when delivered, went into the wrong storage tank. This led to a chemical reaction and release of chlorine to which the plaintiffs claimed they were exposed.

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Featured Resources

Thermo Kinetic Analysis Reactions Involved in the Manufacture of o-Nitroaniline

Exothermic reaction processing must be concerned with potential consequences when heat released by the reaction exceeds that removed by the reactor coolant system, a situation known commonly as a runaway reaction. We have investigated a complicated reaction process in which two exotherms can occur — the process of making the desired product, o-nitroaniline (o-NA), from ammonia and o-chloronitrobenzene (T Onset around 140° C), and the decomposition of the product, o-NA (T Onset around 225° C). A severe industrial loss occurred in 1971 at a plant producing o-nitroaniline, an incident that has been the subject of several AIChE loss prevention presentations and papers. In this article, we take a closer look at the chemistry involved, and the ability to use thermo-kinetic analyses to understand the reactions involved, and how these influenced the accident that occurred. Further, we present the progress we've made towards predictive models for the kinetics and the pressure-time data. Several useful generalizations have evolved. First, is the need to include experiments that use stoichiometric mixtures when assessing exothermic reactions. Second, is the need to understand the role of reaction intermediates, and how they may influence the operation of the plant.


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