Webinar: Using EFFECTS and RISKCURVES v12 to analyse the hazards of new energy carriers

About the webinar

The need for alternative sustainable energy carriers that could contribute to reducing CO₂ emissions arises due to fuel scarcity and climate change concerns.

Among others, hydrogen is seen to potentially address these issues, changing its applications from a component in industrial processes to an energy carrier with high efficiency and zero or near-zero emissions at the point of use.

While hydrogen is versatile, energy-efficient, low-polluting and a high-quality energy carrier, it has unique flammable and explosive characteristics compared to other hydrocarbons, which require further engineering measures to ensure its safe use and handling.

Consequence and risk analysis are parts of these critical measures needed to understand the effects and frequency of hydrogen releases during production, storage, transport, and distribution.

In this webinar, EFFECTS and RISKCURVES Product Manager Sonia Ruiz-Perez provides an overview of how safety professionals can use EFFECTS and RISKCURVES v12 to assess the accidental release of new energy carriers.

The results generated from performing consequence and risk calculations with these software tools can be used to support safe energy transition initiatives, including optimising the design of safe facilities, fine-tuning safety procedures, and implementing necessary preventive and mitigative measures.

EFFECTS and RISKCURVES are Gexcon’s consequence and risk modelling software of choice for integral modelling to analyse the effects and consequences of any incident scenarios.

The software offers:

• Intuitive user interface.
• Straightforward analysis from an initial release up to its far-field effects.
• Accurate calculations based on years of extensive research, validation, and internationally recognised standards.
• A wide variety of models/scenarios to cover different studies.
• Efficient workflow through the possibility of combining several models in one calculation.
• Easy to understand results through integration with GIS software.
• Cost-effective.
• Flexible licensing options.
• Streamline project execution with easy import between consequence and risk modelling software.

About the speaker

Sonia Ruiz-Pérez

EFFECTS & RISKCURVES Product Manager @ Gexcon

Sonia is the Product Manager for EFFECTS & RISKCURVES and has over 7 years of demonstrated experience in process safety in the (petro)chemical industry, where she is an expert in fire, explosion, and dispersion modelling.

She has developed various consequence models in EFFECTS and specialized in validating EFFECTS consequence models against experimental results. Sonia has also been increasingly involved in consultancy projects worldwide, EFFECTS & RISKCURVES training, marketing, and sales-related activities.

Sonia holds a Master’s with Honours in Chemical and Process Engineering.

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