Articles covered in this issue:
Societal Impact Area Assessment of a Hazardous Chemical Odorant Release from a Hydrocarbon Process Unit
– Dr U K Chakrabarti, Institute of Petroleum Safety, Health and Environment Management (IPSHEM, Goa)
Ethyl mercaptan is used for hydrocarbon leak detection. Being flammable, toxic and malodorus in nature, it has adverse effects in people living close to the plant. This paper addresses the worst and alternative case scenarios to bring ethyl mercaptan release under permissible limits.
Hydrostatic Test Pressure in Piping Line List
– RaghurajPuri, Nikhil Jagtap, Pranjal V, Fluor Daniel India Pvt. Ltd
The paper provides insights on significance of hydro testing from piping code perspective, the exceptions, and the changing ASME B31.3 requirements for pressure testing which has significant impact on project execution.
Process Safety Guidelines for Small and Medium Scale Enterprises
– J. Ganeshkumar, Vijay Bhujle, GVS Cibatech Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai
Hazards and mishaps in chemical plants, whether small or large, are too dangerous to be allowed to happen. Therefore, it is important to make sure that proper safety measures are taken to manage and control hazards. This article discusses how chemical accidents can be prevented if proper process safety guidelines are followed.
Effective Alarm Management for Improved Plant Functioning
– Ghanshyam Shakya, Gaurav Kothari, Fluor Daniel India Pvt. Ltd.
Reducing operator effort and improving plant safety can be made considerably easy with alarm assessment and management. Discover how alarms can be assessed, implemented and maintained to effectually enhance industrial processes.
Non-Destructive Testing: A Requisite Armour against Safety Related Complications
– S. Raghava Chari, Independent Consultant
Safe operations of industrial machinery is of paramount importance and Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) plays a crucial role in ensuring proper maintenance and examination of irregular industrial machines and equipment. Read this article to find out more about Visual Inspection, Magnetic Particle Testing and Eddy Current Testing as strategies for appropriate safety maintenance evaluation of various industrial equipment.
Chemingineering – Bhopal@35
– K Sahasranaman – Independent Consultant
The Bhopal gas tragedy is undoubtedly one of the worst disasters in the history of humankind. Our columnist scrutinizes the failures and root causes of the disaster, and emphasizes on the radical transformations in the safety measures of the Chemical Industry in the aftermath of the incident.
