SAChE® Certificate Program - The Role of Inert Gases in Process Safety Source: SAChE – Safety and Chemical Engineering Education Course ID: ELA991 Type: eLearning (online) CourseLanguage: English Skill Level: Advanced Duration: 1 hour CEUs: 0.10 PDHs: 1.00 Share This Post: Inerting of equipment can be an effective way of preventing fires and explosions. However, inert gases have a number of associated physical, chemical, and health hazards. Workers are killed nearly every year by the inert gases that were intended to ensure the safety of our processes. This course describes these hazards. It also provides an introductory perspective of how inert gases can be effectively used for fire and explosion prevention. It addresses factors affecting the selection of which inert gas to use, sources of inert gas, and basic considerations for the design of inerting systems. Learn more about the SAChE Certificate Program. Instructor(s): Walt Frank Walt Frank, PE, CCPSC has a BS degree in chemical engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He has over 45 years of experience in the chemical process industries, having held assignments in plant technical support, production supervision, R&D, major capital project design and startup, and process safety consulting. His career includes 24 years with DuPont and ten years with ABS Consulting. He founded Frank Risk Solutions, Inc. in 1997. Walt’s consulting expertise includes process safety management program development, evaluation, and improvement; safety culture...Read more Jenny Wang Jenny Wang is currently a CCPS staff consultant and instructor. From 2009 to 2015, she was Asia process safety manager in Air Products. Prior to that, she has 15 years experiences of process and process safety in DuPont and Bayer Material Science, with various responsibilities of process engineering, PHA, Risk analysis, incident investigation, PSM audit, etc. Jenny has BS degree in Refined Chemical Engineering and MS degree in Applied Chemistry. Jenny’s projects include: Process safety training program Translation of CCPS products Asia CCPS...Read more Checkout Checkout Do you already own this? Log In for instructions on accessing this content. Pricing Teams (10 or more) Minimize cost and maximize learning with Train-A-Team. Learn more Individuals AIChE Members $169.00 Employees of CCPS Member Companies $169.00 AIChE Graduate Student Members Free AIChE Undergraduate Student Members Free Non-Members $199.00 Accrediting Agencies: Florida New Jersey New York RCEP Horizontal TabsOutline Unit 1: The Role of Inert Gases in Process Safety Download Course Outline (PDF) What You'll Learn Unit 1: - Identify, evaluate, and control the hazards associated with the use of inert gases - List key factors in the selection of inerts - Determine the purging or blanketing technique most appropriate for a given application - Apply the principles of oxygen concentration control in the specification of systems for inerting process equipment - List the considerations related to inerting that must be addressed in a process hazards analysis (PHA) Who Should Attend This advanced course is for upper-level (junior or senior) chemical engineering undergraduates who have had some exposure to process safety. This course is designed to be of value to those who are, or likely will be, involved in using inert gases in either the academic or industrial setting. The content will be useful to those designing and operating, or merely working near, processing and maintenance activities involving the use of inert gases, which may seem to be completely innocuous but are not. The course is intended to be taken in combination with other related SACHE courses addressing fire, explosion, and chemical reactivity hazards. This course supplements those courses by explaining where and why inert gases may be present, and by emphasizing the hazards of inert gases and precautions for using them safely. FAQs Find answers to questions about registration and refunds, tuitions and fees, travel and lodging (for location-based courses), how eLearning courses work, how credits work, and more. Go to FAQs Page
Walt Frank Walt Frank, PE, CCPSC has a BS degree in chemical engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He has over 45 years of experience in the chemical process industries, having held assignments in plant technical support, production supervision, R&D, major capital project design and startup, and process safety consulting. His career includes 24 years with DuPont and ten years with ABS Consulting. He founded Frank Risk Solutions, Inc. in 1997. Walt’s consulting expertise includes process safety management program development, evaluation, and improvement; safety culture...Read more
Jenny Wang Jenny Wang is currently a CCPS staff consultant and instructor. From 2009 to 2015, she was Asia process safety manager in Air Products. Prior to that, she has 15 years experiences of process and process safety in DuPont and Bayer Material Science, with various responsibilities of process engineering, PHA, Risk analysis, incident investigation, PSM audit, etc. Jenny has BS degree in Refined Chemical Engineering and MS degree in Applied Chemistry. Jenny’s projects include: Process safety training program Translation of CCPS products Asia CCPS...Read more