A game-changing approach to furnace safeguarding

This work is a follow-up article to “Automate furnace controls to improve safety and energy efficiency,” which was published in the June 2014 edition of Hydrocarbon Processing.

Mickity, D., Phillips 66

 

https://www.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/magazine/2018/september-2018/special-focus-refining-technology/a-game-changing-approach-to-furnace-safeguarding

 

Role of fired heater safety systems

A fully automated burner management system operating as a SIS for burner control can meet minimum safety targets, improve system availability and lower costs

NIKKI BISHOP and DAVID SHEPPARD
Emerson Process Management

Role of fired heater safety systems

Design Options for Overfill Protection for Aboveground Atmospheric Tanks - Best Practices

"Overfilling of a tank is an important safety hazard.  It may result in loss of tank fluid and potentially severe consequences if the fluid is flammable or environmentally sensitive.   Additionally, it is necessary to preserve the mechanical integrity of a tank.   This article first looks briefly at various ways liquid may overfill a tank, and then describes different design options as best practices to take care of situations where overfilling is a possibility.   The main paper will contain diagrams and appropriate references."

 See this link https://www.aiche.org/academy/videos/conference-presentations/design-options-overfill-protection-aboveground-atmospheric-tanks-best-practices

DONT UNDERESTIMATE OVERFILLING RISKS

 "Loss of level control has contributed to three significant industrial incidents:

 In Australia, the Esso Longford explosion in September 1998 resulted in two fatalities, eight injuries, and A$1.3 billion (more than U.S. $ 1 billion) in losses [1];In the U.S., the BP Texas City explosion in March 2005 caused 15 fatalities and more than 170 injuries, profoundly affected facility production for months afterwards, and incurred losses exceeding $1.6 billion on BP [2]; andIn the U.K., the Buncefield explosion in December 2005 injured 43 people, devastated the Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal, and led to total losses of as much as ₤1 billion (about $1.5 billion) [3, 4]."

Read the article at https://www.chemicalprocessing.com/articles/2010/143/

2019 Significant Process Safety Incidents

2019 Significant Process Safety Incidents: Use this summary of 2019's process safety incidents to learn and to help prevent incidents at your facility, whatever your industry. This video is a summary of significant process safety incidents during the year 2019. The purpose of maintaining awareness and sharing process safety incidents each year is to promote the Risk Based Process Safety (RBPS) approach to lessons-learned and to encourage industry to maintain a sense of vulnerability. This allows our members to be up to date on the latest news regarding process safety as we strive to be strong, smarter, and more effective in the ongoing effort to reduce process safety incidents to zero.