Training
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Current Courses
Basic Emergency Relief Design
Emergency relief systems are often the last line of defense in protecting a vessel from overpressure and preventing a potentially catastrophic consequence. This course includes a review of the engineering fundamentals needed to design pressure relief systems, introduces the devices used to protect vessels from overpressure, and provides an overview of the cases which should be considered that can result in overpressure including credible case selection. In addition, the course provides the necessary training for an engineer to successfully size pressure relief systems using Recognized and Generally Accepted Good Engineering Practices (RAGAGEP). The course will introduce the student to the concepts of incomplete disengagement and two-phase flow, as well as depressurization systems and supercritical systems. Students will be taught how to size pressure relief systems using calculations that can be done in a spreadsheet, but the course can also be tailored to use SuperChems.
Hazards of Combustible Dusts
This course provides an overview of the hazards of combustible particulate solids. The course introduces to the fundamentals of dust explosion hazards, the various parameters which impact dust explosibility, and the tests which characterize dust explosion hazards. The students will be provided with an overview of the Recognized and Generally Accepted Good Engineering Practices associated with the handling and processing of combustible dusts. The course also includes instruction on static electricity hazards and a review of the various unit operations common to handling and processing solids and the hazards of those unit operations.
This training is an excellent course for a PHA facilitator preparing to lead a dust hazard analysis.
Process Safety Management
Learn the Pillars of Process Safety and how to Apply them to your facility
Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA)
Learn the Semi-Quantitative Approach to Assess whether Losses are Adequately Controlled.
Consequence Assessment
This course will drive home how to characterize losses of containment to drive a decision-making process.
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The course starts with basic practical dispersion modeling, builds into specifying exposure criteria, probability of fatality, and assessing maximum allowable safe sheltering.