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This article discusses the main steps required to perform a QRA to evaluate all potential loss of containment scenarios involving the release of dangerous chemical substances in process, chemical and petrochemical facilities.

We can ensure the safe production, transportation, and usage of hydrogen by carefully considering its typical properties and associated safety aspects.

In an earlier blog, we talked about some energy carriers playing the main role in the energy transition, hydrogen, and ammonia. Strongly linked to that is also CO2, which possibly is not so obvious.

This blog provides some background about these geographic presentations of Societal Risk and explain how to interpret their results when using Gexcon’s risk modelling software RISKCURVES.

Both pool and warehouse fires can result in highly toxic fumes. The assessment of the toxic concentration levels of these combustion products transported along the plume trajectory is of utmost importance. Safety professionals can use this information for hazard identification, safety analysis and emergency planning.

Today, two of the new energy carriers are hydrogen and ammonia. When used at a large scale during the energy transition process, the safe handling of these energy carriers plays a major role.

This article will explain the importance of assessing the consequences of a potential release of a hazardous chemical substance and introduce you to the different dangerous phenomena that can occur upon such a loss of containment scenario.

Heat radiation from a pool fire causes a heat flux with the potential to cause damage to objects in the surrounding area.

That is why it is highly relevant to assess the consequences of such a scenario to help safety professionals devise prevention and mitigation measures so that accidental releases can either be prevented or their consequences minimized.

Numerical models simplify reality; usually, they only model the relevant physical processes. A verification process assesses the software implementation to ensure the correct coding and elimination of errors.

In this blog post, Sonia Ruiz, Gexcon’s Research Scientist, explains how easy it is to use background maps in EFFECTS.

Advanced consequence modelling can improve ventilation/dilution levels and detection times from common leaks during ammonia risk assessments.

To provide insights on safety, we should try to answer: “What can go wrong?”, “What are the consequences?” and “Why safety risks DO matter?”

The Energy Institute Model code of safe practice Part 15 provides an approach to assess high flash point liquids for Hazardous Area Classifications.

However, recent studies indicate that the approach may be over-conservative in some instances, resulting in potentially unnecessarily high costs.

Chris Coffey, FLACS-CFD Product & Strategic Business Development Manager, reflects on the success of Gexcon’s very first FLUG Week.

Using our flagship CFD modelling tool FLACS-CFD, Gexcon conducted several case studies on real facilities looking at the design of bulk storage areas in terms of safety during an ignited event, using relevant standards and documentation for guidance.

The high-level nature of a HAZID is suitable to review the design at an early stage without requiring in-depth knowledge of the operation.

Did you know that dust could explode? In fact, powdered milk, flour, sugar, and cornstarch, among many others, can explode.

There have been some devastating incidents that have taken place over the past decades caused by dust explosions.

ATEX is a set of two European Union Directives that have been established to protect employees from explosion risks within industries.

PFP is a vital construction element installed in a building or on process equipment that prevents or slows down the spread of fire

Gexcon Consulting recently worked with the UK’s largest LNG storage facility located on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. The facility is located at a fish feed production factory and therefore presents a very different level of risk than the primary operations.