Minimizing Fire and Explosion Risk - Volume One Engineering Design and Instrumentation - electronic book

The risk of fire and explosion is ever-present at facilities throughout the Chemical Process Industries (CPI), including plants that handle fuels, chemicals, flammable fluids, and combustible powders. To mitigate this risk, plant personnel must implement robust engineering designs, instrumentation and control systems, and operational protocols to ensure maximum reliability and rapid response in the event of fire or explosion.

This Chemical Engineering Guidebook provides a collection of practical engineering articles to help facilities maximize safety, minimize fire risk, and protect personnel and assets.

Features & Benefits

• Comprehensive Risk Management: Practical strategies for fire prevention, explosion mitigation, and emergency response in CPI facilities.
• Pressure Relief Systems: Detailed guidance on sizing, using, and maintaining pressure-relief valves and rupture disks.
• Instrumentation & Monitoring: Insights on proper selection and implementation of detection, monitoring, and control devices for safety-critical operations.
• Heat-Transfer Systems: Best practices for design, operation, and fluid selection to minimize fire risks in high-temperature processes.
• Maintenance & Troubleshooting: Real-world examples to ensure safe operation and longevity of fire-sensitive systems and components.
• Emergency Preparedness: Guidance on planning, response, and collaboration with regulatory and investigative bodies.

Audience

• Chemical, process, and mechanical engineers
• Plant safety and reliability engineers
• Maintenance and operations managers in CPI facilities
• Instrumentation and control engineers
• Engineering students and researchers focused on process safety

Articles Include

• Column Revamps: Considerations for complex revamp tasks
• Direct Integration Method for Relief Valve Sizing
• Distillation Column Design Factors
• Control Engineering for Chemical Engineers
• Heat Transfer Fluids and Systems
• Avoiding Pressure Relief Problems
• Safe Sampling of Heat-Transfer Fluids
• Aging Relief Systems: Performance and maintenance tips
• Using Rupture Disks with Pressure Relief Valves
• Troubleshooting Field Failures of Rupture Disks
• Maximizing Heat-Transfer Fluid Longevity
• Heat Transfer Fluid Leaks: Break the Fire Triangle
• Troubleshooting Heat-Transfer Fluid Systems
• Fire-Water Pumps for CPI Facilities
• Chemical Process Plant Revamps
• Pressure Measurement: Handling Difficult Applications
• Disaster Preparedness at Manufacturing Facilities
• Sizing Calculations for Pressure-Relief Valves
• Pressure Relief Requirements During External Fire Contingency
• Effective Plant Safety Management
• Safety-Instrumented Systems: Control Valves as Final Elements
• Designing Safety Instrumented Systems with Relevant Data
• Causes and Prevention of Packing Fires
• Emergency Pressure Relief for External Fire Scenarios
• Working with the CSB After a Major Accident
• Explosion-Protection Techniques
• Rupture Discs: Minimizing Leaks and Emissions
• Vapor Depressurization: Concept and Implementation
• Combining Rupture Discs with Relief Valves
• Modern Rupture Disc Support for Increased Plant Capacity
• Pressure-Relief System Design: Developments and Deficiencies
• High-temperature Heat-transfer Fluid Optimization
• Using Safety PLCs for Process Control
• Replacing Aged Heat-Transfer Fluids
• Preventing Fires and Explosions in Pilot Plants
• Fire & Gas Detection in Safety Systems
• Fired Heaters: Fuel Gas Control Best Practices
• Optimizing Pressure Relief Systems
• Monitoring Flame Hazards in Chemical Plants
• Proper Use of Conventional PRV Discharge Coefficients
• Burner Inspection and Maintenance
• Process & Functional Safety for Asset Integrity
• Sampling for Internal Corrosion
• Emergency Shutdown Valves: Functional Safety Approach
• Reactive Chemistry in the CPI
• Next Step Change in Process Safety
• Engineering Ethics Guidelines
• Optimizing Flare Operation Through Proper Design
• Spill Containment in Research Facilities
• Measurement Best Practices for Safety Instrumented Systems