A proactive approach, coupled with properly planned and implemented safety and risk management systems can help you comply with local, state and federal PSM regulations, as well as minimize loss of life, environmental impact, equipment damage, citations and litigation.
ioMosaic pioneered many of the current risk assessment techniques for processes that handle hazardous chemicals.
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Helping manage risk with facility siting studies, assessments and recommendations.
Senior knowledgeable engineers facilitate PHAs or DHAs in nearly all sectors of the process and processing industries.
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The chemical company of a large integrated energy company was developing a corporate standard for LOPA, which incorporated a risk ranking matrix. The company was interested in obtaining an independent review of the design of the risk matrix, and in benchmarking the underlying risk tolerability criteria with generally accepted industry norms.
A major pulp and paper manufacturing company in Mississippi determined that its process safety management (PSM) program had to do more than merely follow OSHA regulations; they wanted it to also be effective in preventing accidents.
If your facility uses, stores, manufactures, handles, or moves flammable or highly hazardous chemicals on site above the threshold quantity (TQ), OSHA does require PSM implementation. Learn the facts about process safety management.
Understanding the likelihood and potential for raw materials to interact unintentionally in multipurpose equipment is key for process safety risk identification and management efforts. Read this white paper for guidance that can help you to better understand your organization’s potential vulnerabilities related to chemical reactivity hazards.
Explosions can occur in vessels or enclosures containing flammable gases and/or dusts. Explosion venting, often referred to as deflagration venting (because we cannot practically vent detonations), is used to protect from catastrophic vessel/enclosure failure. Simplified equations are often used to determine the deflagration relief requirements. Simplified equations can be found in standards such as NFPA-68 [1]. While easy to use, simplified equations tend to overestimate the relief requirements and have several practical limitations. Simplified equations provided in NFPA-68 [1] require the use of an explosion severity index, usually obtained from actual testing in a 20 liter sphere or a 1 m3 vessel. Published severity index data for flammable gases or dusts are also used. Typically, simplified equations for deflagration venting apply to ideal geometries and for short vent lines. They are not readily applicable to complex geometries, systems with elevated initial temperatures or pressures, hybrid systems containing flammable gases and dusts, systems with diluents and/or chemical oxidizers, systems with reduced venting set pressures, geometries with long L/D ratios or geometries with long vent piping where flame acceleration becomes significant. We have developed detailed deflagration and explosion dynamics methods and computer codes that address many of the shortcomings of simplified sizing methods. These dynamic methods rely on a detailed representation of all possible independent combustion reaction(s) using direct Gibbs free energy minimization [2, 3, 4] coupled with a detailed burning rate model developed from measured explosion data using a 20 liter sphere or a 1 m3 vessel. We describe these methods in what follows and provide examples of how they are applied and how the burning rate models are developed from measured data.
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