Advanced Emergency Relief System Design

Source: DIERS - Design Institute for Emergency Relief Systems

Course ID:

CH173
Type:
Face-to-Face Course
Language:

English
Skill Level:

Advanced
Duration:

3 days
CEUs:

2.25
PDHs:

22.50
Accrediting Agencies:

Florida
New Jersey
New York
RCEP

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OSHA has recognized Design Institute for Emergency Relief System (DIERS) methods as good engineering practice for process safety management of highly hazardous materials. If you’re responsible for the safe handling of the effluent from relief systems, this advanced course will teach you how to apply the DIERS techniques for providing adequate pressure relief for runaway reactions and other pressure-producing events. If you are just starting out, take the basic course on the topic (CH172).

Applying DIERS Technology in Your Facility

This course covers the Design Institute for Emergency Relief Systems (DIERS) techniques for providing adequate pressure relief for runaway reactions and other pressure-producing events that result in two-phase flow.Each participant receives the texts: Emergency Relief Systems Design Using DIERS Technology (published by AIChE), and Guidelines for Pressure Relief and Effluent Handling Systems (published by CCPS and includes SC Lite computer code license).

Instructor(s):

Todd Brandes

Todd Brandes is a Chemical Engineering Principal Consultant in the Engineering Technology group of The Chemours Company. He has over 25 years’ experience in process development, evaluation, design, simulation, and controls, which has included work on a wide range of specialty chemical commercial products such as alkylated phenols, flame retardants, organometallic catalysts, active pharmaceutical ingredients, and fluoroorganics.

For most of his career, Todd has been involved in all the aspects of the design of pressure relief systems: scenario identification and modeling...Read more

J Wayne Chastain

Professional Biography

Mr. Chastain is an Engineering Associate at the Kingsport, TN site of Eastman Chemical Company. Wayne has worked in various areas of process safety since starting work with Eastman Chemical in 1992. Mr. Chastain’s areas of expertise are in Process Hazards Analysis, risk management, layer of protection analysis, reactive chemical safety, dust hazards, safety instrumented systems and emergency relief.

Mr. Chastain is...Read more

William Ciolek

William Ciolek is a Principal Design Engineer with UOP, a Honeywell company, where he is the lead specialist for pressure relief worldwide. For 30 years he has consulted on the gamut of pressure relief problems and related process safety elements. Bill has trained hundreds of engineers at UOP and Amoco Corporation on pressure relief design.

He served as chairman of the DIERS Users Group subcommittee on incidents and case histories, and is a current member of the API Subcommittee on Pressure Relieving Systems.

A graduate of Michigan State University, he specializes in...Read more

Enio Kumpinsky

Enio Kumpinsky is a Principal Consultant at ioMosaic. He has over 30 years of experience in product and process development, scale-up, plant operations and chemical-process safety. Knowledge of technologies includes phenol-formaldehyde resins, acrylate polymers, unsaturated polyester resins, ethylene oxide and propylene oxide polymers, polyether ketones and neoprene rubber. Enio worked at Du Pont for more than seven years and at Ashland Global for more than 28 years before joining ioMosaic.

Process-...Read more

Dan Smith

Dan Smith is a Sr. R&D Advisor with Albemarle Corporation, and Manager of Albemarle’s Chemical Reactivity and Engineering Fundamentals group. He has extensive experience in process development, process design, process simulation and process evaluation, which has included work on Albemarle commercial products such as alpha olefins, linear alcohols, flame retardents, and organometallic catalysts. For 20 years he has consulted on pressure relief and related process safety issues. Dan trains engineers at Albemarle Corporation on pressure relief...Read more

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What You'll Learn

Learning Outcomes:

Discuss elements of emergency relief system design with an emphasis on DIERS methodology.
Describe design practices in emergency pressure relief and effluent containment in compliance with established codes.
Employ DIERS technology for data acquisition and two-phase venting calculations.
Research and learn how to Test computational models and computer programs as well as the effects in real-world scenarios.
Discuss the complex field and some of the many steps in becoming an ERS engineer.
Evaluate resources and references that guide further development of ERS engineers.

Who Should Attend

Who Should Attend: (Please note prerequisites below)

Engineers responsible for operating, designing or managing chemical processes that require emergency overpressure relief devices to ensure the safety of the facility in the event of runaway reactions or other pressure-producing events. Engineers who want to learn more about state-of-the-art venting and flow technology or those responsible for the safe handling of the effluent from an emergency relief device will find this course invaluable.

Prerequisites

The course assumes that the attendees have thorough understanding and real-world experience working with the basic chemical engineering principles of reaction kinetics, fluid flow, thermodynamics, heat transfer, mass transfer, and heat and material balances. Further, some application of these disciplines in basic emergency relief system design or evaluation is expected.

Outline

Day One

8:00 – 8:30

Registration

8:30 – 10:00

Introduction to ERS Design

DIERS/DIERS Users Group
Case Histories
ERS Design Goals/Strategy

10:00 – 10:15

Morning Break

10:15 – Noon

Introduction to ERS Design (continued)

Energy/Material Balances; Physical Property Treatment
Impact of Two-Phase Vessel Venting and ERS Flow
Codes, Terms, Devices, and Rules

Noon – 1:00

Lunch Break

1:00 – 3:00

Vessel Disengagement Dynamics

Two-Phase Venting Conditions
Coupling Equation; Vapor/Liquid Disengagement Models

3:00 – 3:15

Afternoon Break

3:15 – 5:30

Vessel Disengagement Dynamics (continued)

Experimental Verification
Prediction of Two-Phase Flow Onset/Disengagement

Day Two

8:00 – 10:00

Vent Flow Dynamics

Technology Base (Two Phase Flow Methods)
Fundamental Flow Equations
Experimental Verification

10:00 – 10:15

Morning Break

10:15 – Noon

Vent Flow Dynamics (continued)

Code Compliant Design
Calculation via “CCflow” or SC Lite code with provided license
Example Problems in provided texts

Noon – 1:00

Lunch Break

1:00 – 3:00

Simplified Reactive Case ERS Design

Data Acquisition via Bench-Scale Testing

3:00 – 3:15

Afternoon Break

3:15 – 5:30

Simplified Reactive Case ERS Design (continued)

Experimental Reactive Case ERS Design
Simplified Reactive-Case Design Equations with Example Problems

Day Three

8:00 – 10:00

Computerized ERS Design Methods (Simulation)

Advantages of Design by digital simulation; Example Problem

10:00 – 10:15

Morning Break

10:15 – Noon

Computerized ERS Design Methods (continued)

SuperChems for DIERS Capabilities and Demonstration

Noon – 1:00

Lunch Break

1:00 – 3:00

ERS Effluent Handling

Effluent Handling Strategies, Separators and Quench Pool Designs
Example Effluent Handling Problems Using “CCflow” programs

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Applying DIERS Technology in Your Facility

Todd Brandes

J Wayne Chastain

William Ciolek

Enio Kumpinsky

Dan Smith

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Learning Outcomes:

Who Should Attend: (Please note prerequisites below)

Prerequisites

Day One

8:00 – 8:30

8:30 – 10:00

10:00 – 10:15

10:15 – Noon

Noon – 1:00

1:00 – 3:00

3:00 – 3:15

3:15 – 5:30

Day Two

8:00 – 10:00

10:00 – 10:15

10:15 – Noon

Noon – 1:00

1:00 – 3:00

3:00 – 3:15

3:15 – 5:30

Simplified Reactive Case ERS Design (continued)

Day Three

8:00 – 10:00

10:00 – 10:15

10:15 – Noon

Noon – 1:00

1:00 – 3:00

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