Thursday, December 9th, 2010
The risk and safety blog has been recognized as one of the Top Workplace Safety Blog by Construction Management webportal.
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Posted in Process Safety | 2 Comments »
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
I would like to wish readers and the growing list of subscribers of risk and safety blog a prosperous 2010.
It has been a year since I started writing the blog. Here are top five blog posts for 2009:
1. Biofuel Safety: Is it time for Bio-PSM?
2. Lithium Battery Fires: Why Your ...
Posted in Battery Fires, Biofuels, Fires and explosions, Process Safety, Risk Analysis | 4 Comments »
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
In December 2005, fire and explosion at Buncefield oil storage depot injured 40 people. Overfilling of a fuel storage tank (Tank 912) led to release of unleaded gasoline (petrol) which formed a cloud of flammable vapor that subsequently ignited.
Puerto Rico Fire
Four years after Buncefield, around midnight on October 23, 2009, a ...
Posted in Chemical Accidents, Fires and explosions, Incident Investigation | 3 Comments »
Monday, September 21st, 2009
Methane being extremely flammable, the fire and gas detection (FGD) system in LNG facilities should be capable of early detection of flammable gas leading to shutdown/isolation and depressurization.
Usually catalytic combustion type gas sensors are used for detecting LNG vapors; however, for these combustion gas sensors to work the vapors within ...
Posted in Fires and explosions, LNG, Process Safety | 7 Comments »
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
The biodiesel and biofuel industry is demonstrating a disturbing trend of unsafe operations. The biodiesel industry is experiencing one fire/explosion incident EVERY two-and-a-half months. Last Friday, there was an explosion at a biodiesel plant in Chicago injuring two workers. The following video from NBC provides details of the incident.
http://tinyurl.com/lmpug7
According to the video, the explosion ...
Posted in Biofuels, Reactive Chemicals | 1 Comment »
Sunday, April 26th, 2009
LNG import terminals in the U.S. follow NFPA-59A and 49CFR193 standards for facility siting. As a part of the siting studies, LNG regasification facilities report thermal radiation exclusion zones and flammable vapor exclusion zones:
Flammable vapor hazard zones are based on a design spill from a single accidental source, usually a ...
Posted in Consequence Modeling, LNG, Siting, Thermal Radiation | No Comments »
Sunday, April 12th, 2009
An explosion occurred at East Ohio Company’s peak-shaving plant in Cleveland, Ohio on October 20, 1944. 128 people were killed and 225 injured as a result of the incident.
East Ohio Company built a LNG peak-shaving facility in Cleveland in 1941 to augment the gas supply. In 1943, a cylindrical storage ...
Posted in Incident Investigation, LNG, Process Safety | 1 Comment »
