The following describes how an adequate implementation of alarm management is a fundamental part in process safety management (PSM).
The flaring of gases released from normal process vents and safety valve discharges following an overpressure scenario is widely practiced in refineries, petrochemical and chemical plants.
Over the past five years, the industrial evolution has been propelled by the same technologies that have dramatically changed our private lives.
By universal agreement, the safety and reliability of facilities in the hydrocarbon processing industry—and most other industrial plants—are of highest importance.
The volatile impact of the coronavirus pandemic hit at the same time the petrochemical industry was entering a downcycle.
A critical objective of engineers who design an automatic protection system is to lower the false trip rate and to lower a key metric called average probability of failure on demand (PFDavg).
The HPI has been going through a digital transformation, increasingly adopting digital technologies to improve existing processes and structures to improve performance.
A process safety management/operational risk management survey conducted by Sphera in 2020 polled respondents on the following items.
To say that the downstream energy sector is facing a time of unprecedented challenge would be the understatement of the decade.
With the increasing prominence of hydrogen technologies circulating into the global market, Gulf Energy Information—publisher of Hydrocarbon Processing and Gas Processing & LNG—has launched our latest publication: H2Tech.