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High Risk Industries
Contents
Particulates in Dust Explosions and Fires By Dr. Konanur Manjunath, Senior Technical Leader, The Dow Chemical Company The focus of this paper is on the combustible dust and highlights the incidents that have caused significant loss of life in the US since 1995.
By Mr. Horst Kohler, Head of Power Utilities Solutions, Siemens Switzerland Safeguarding power facilities against the diversity of internal and external threats calls for an integrated risk management strategy, with integrated solutions in fire safety, security, electrical installation and building automation.
Fire and Explosion Hazards in Offshore Gas Turbines By Health & Safety Executive Guidance for duty holders of offshore installations on identifying fire and explosion hazards in offshore gas turbines.
Estimating Flammability Limits of a Mixture By Dr. Tingguang Ma, Dr. Qingsheng Wang and Dr. Michael D. Larranaga, Oklahoma State University Flammability has been a core concept in characterizing the potential of ignition and explosion in a gaseous flammable mixture. The latest trend is to use Limiting Oxygen Concentration to replace the cumbersome BOM flammability apparatus.
Deepwater Drilling Safety Cases By John F. Kill, Morris E. Burch, Jeremy Goddard, Marlane J. Kayfes and Kevin G. Kinsella, Environmental Resources Management To address varying degrees of knowledge about safety cases, this paper is a primer of the history and growing pains of safety case regimes worldwide, principles and elements of safety cases, and their implementation.
Addressing Fire Protection in the Oil and Gas Industry By Ian Buchanan, European Manager, Spectrex, Inc. To enhance the safety of oil & gas facilities, Optical Flame Detectors provide reliable and fast fire detection and advanced Fixed Gas Detection systems detect the occurrence of gas releases at their outburst, before the gas concentration reaches the flammable/explosive limits.
Determining the Safety Integrity Level (Sil) By Saman Afkhami, Senior Automation Engineer, SNC Lavalin Many industries have a need to evaluate and rank risk and match it to safety system performance. There are a variety of techniques that can be used ranging from qualitative to quantitative. All methods involve evaluating at least the two components of risk; probability and severity.
Fire Protection Systems in Modern Data Centers By Mr. Richard W. Bukowski and Mr. Ralph Transue, Rolf Jensen & Associates, Inc. The crucial nature of data storage has led to fault tolerant systems that automatically create and maintain multiple backup copies in data centers located on different continents such that no single event short of Armageddon could result in data loss.
Smoke Detection on Mobile Mining Equipment By Peter J. Wynnyczuk, Product Development Manager, Heritage Industrial Services, LLC. Very early warning air sampling smoke detection would provide great value to an industrial facility due to on-going maintenance activities such as welding and metal cutting that can set in motion smoldering and a possible fire situation well after the work has been completed.
Fire and Blast Protection for High Risk Industries By Mr. Sean Appleton, Marketing Manager, Promat UK Limited In today's world, there are many industries which can be described as "high risk", and each of these has its own individual risks where fire is concerned, but all share a huge potential for death, injury and major disruption to result from a major blaze.
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