Process Safety Spotlights
Process Safety Spotlights is a track within the Global Congress for Process Safety that focuses on topical subjects in process safety. The topics addressed in the Spotlight track should be areas of new development within process safety. While some of the areas addressed in the track may be classical areas of interest, Spotlight will focus on new advances within those areas. Given the rich tapestry of topics addressed by the other tracks within the Global Congress for Process Safety, Spotlight will attempt to focus on areas not being emphasized in the other tracks.
The conference agenda will consist of six sessions, each with six 25-minute presentations. Papers are selected by session chairs based on an abstract of 100-200 words. The abstract must offer a brief account of the contents, conclusions, and the relevance to the topic area. Submitted abstracts must include the name(s) of the author(s), their affiliation(s), full address(es), email(s), and phone number(s). The papers will be published in the GCPS proceedings.
Spotlights Chair
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Wayne Chastain, Spotlight_chair@aiche.org
CFA Session Topics
Instrumented Protective Systems
Case Histories (GCPS Joint Session)
Pressure Relief Design
Although pressure relief design is one of the most classical areas of process safety, recent activity in this sphere has rekindled an interest in the area in the broader process safety community. Governmental findings related to the rules associated with inlet pressure drop for relief valves have led to new experimental programs and analysis in an attempt to actually characterize relief valve stability. Development in this area has led to interesting findings regarding the efficacy of the 3% rule normally applied to such systems. In addition to relief valve stability, there is ongoing development in the areas of two phase flow and reactive relief. Papers related to the area of pressure relief design which offer insight into advances in the field or that offer novel approaches to traditional issues are encouraged.
Inherently Safer Design
The concepts associated with inherently safer design have been under development since Trevor Kletz raised the issue in his seminal paper “What you don’t have, can’t leak.” CCPS is now has a subcommittee working on a third edition of their text on inherently safer design and the topic is of great interest in the industry due to its relationship to the ever more important concepts of sustainability. In addition, legislators and regulators at the local, state, and federal levels in the U.S. as well as internationally have taken an acute interest in the topic not only because of the implicit reliability of inherently safer designed facilities in eliminating or minimizing process hazards but also because of the implications of inherently safer design on the risks posed by facilities from security threats. Papers related to inherently safer design practices during engineering, operations, and maintenance activities are encouraged in this session with particular interest in the intersection of inherently safer design with sustainability and security.
Facility Security
Facility security is an important topic in today’s environment, both domestically and internationally. This session invites papers focused on all areas of facility security from the implications for green and brown field sites, hardening of existing facilities and operations, tools for threat assessments including chemicals and chemistries that are of particular risk, and the increasingly critical area of cyber security for facilities.
Instrumented Protective Systems
Instrumented protective systems have been important in process safety for many years but with the advent of international standards on their design and application, they have reached a new level of maturity within the industry. Current developments in this area include data collection for validation of calculated reliability, use of instrumented protective systems in lieu of mechanical overpressure protection, and compliance with changing industry standards. Papers that highlight new developments in the field of instrumented protective systems including their specification, design, implementation, maintenance, or administration are encouraged.
Case Histories (GCPS Joint Session)
Reviews of process safety incidents provide valuable learning opportunities. This session invites papers to help understand the causes and lessons learned from incidents in the industry with an emphasis on events that have helped define and develop the process safety field over the years.