Fire in HPCL refinery

A fire that lasted about 6 hours has been reported in a refinery at Visakhapatnam. No casulaties were reported. Read about the incident by Indian Express in these links

Major fire at HPCL Visakha refinery

Fire: Emergency systems saved HPCL


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Do Your Thermowells Meet the ASME Standard?

Worth a read!

Do Your Thermowells Meet the ASME Standard?

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Process Safety for fresh engineers

I often get fresh engineers sending me e-mails about a career in process safety. I tell them that they must have a minimum of 10 years in operational experience to really think about a career in process safety. Process Safety cannot be learnt only from textbooks - it needs a deeper understanding on how organisations work and the human issues involving process safety. ASME has brought out a video about process safety for fresh engineers in this link.

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Wireless and explosion proof instruments

 Read a good article on wireless instruments and how they can be made explosion proof or intrinsically safe in this link.
PS: The article is for information only and I am not recommending any product.
 
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Flash fire in plastics unit in USA

On May 2nd, a flash fire occurred at a major plastics producer in the USA.This site had experienced a major fire in 2005 which the CSB had investigated. In the current fire it was reported that few workers were burned.
See a video and news article in this link

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