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Inherent safety assessment of separation equipment in preliminary engineering phase

Ahmad, Syaza Izyanni and Hashim, Haslenda and Hassim, Mimi Haryani (2015) Inherent safety assessment of separation equipment in preliminary engineering phase. In: The 18th Conference of Process Integration, Modelling And Optimisation for Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction 2015 (PRES 2015), 22-27 Aug, 2015, Sarawak, Malaysia.

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Abstract

This paper highlights the development of new numerical approach for inherent safety assessment for separation process during the preliminary engineering stage of a typical petrochemical process lifecycle. Currently, existing inherent safety assessment technique for preliminary engineering phase did not specify the type of equipment they are applicable to as most of the methods can be used for any types of equipment generally. Aside from that, their assessment parameters are not exclusive to a certain type of unit operations. This new technique offers an inherent safety assessment focusing on chemicals safety during separation process. Parameters related to chemicals involved in separation process such as volatility, toxicity, flammability as well as explosiveness will be discussed. This technique will be constructed using logistic function which offers not only hazard assessment numerically but also graphically visualizes the effect of inherent safety parameters in designing an inherently safer process. The proposed technique can be used to effectively identify the level of hazards involved in process equipment besides highlighting the potential source of hazards in the process through numerical and graphical approach.

Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:volatility, toxicity
Subjects:T Technology > TP Chemical technology
Divisions:Chemical Engineering
ID Code:61763
Deposited By: Widya Wahid
Deposited On:25 Apr 2017 07:59
Last Modified:07 Aug 2017 01:05

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