Making Safety Data Count: Practical Approaches to Improving Process Hazard Analysis and Scale-Up Outcomes
Program Overview
- How to translate data into information that can be seamlessly and effectively used in scale-up risk assessment / process hazard analysis.
- How to provide context with process safety data to maximise it's impact in process hazard analysis.
- The criticality of all the interdependent steps in assuring the safety of reactive chemistry scale-up.
In this webinar, process safety expert Stephen Rowe, Ph.D. presents Practical Approaches to Improving Process Hazard Analysis and Scale-Up Outcomes. Safety in the development and scale-up of chemical processes involves a number of multi-disciplinary activities ranging from laboratory characterisation of hazards to the implementation of safety measures to protect against, or prevent, harm to an acceptable level of residual risk. Reaction and thermal stability characterisation is a critical foundation for robust and safe scale-up.
The activities in the scale-up process are highly interdependent. The output of reaction and thermal stability characterisation is an input to process hazard analysis. If any stage in scale-up is deficient, the whole process is compromised.
This short presentation summarises the key scale-up steps but focuses on optimising the knowledge flow (not just data flow) from R&D / Process Development into the Process Hazard Analysis (PHA). Having the right data as input to the PHA is important, but knowing how to use the data in the PHA is even more important.
The presentation includes case studies incorporating reaction calorimetry and thermal stability examples. The aim is to create greater awareness in development chemists of how their data will be used and therefore how they can optimise the efficiency and effectiveness of the PHA through some small changes in the outputs they provide.
Target audience
Sectors performing reactive chemistry
Job titles related to Process Development through to scale-up engineering (Process Development Chemist, R&D Chemist, Process Safety Engineer, Pilot Plant Chemist, Production Plant Engineer)
About the Presenter
Dr. Stephen Rowe
Technical Director - Reaction Safety (DEKRA UK Ltd)
Steve has a BSC in Applied Chemistry, a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering (Process Safety) and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is currently the Technical Director of Reaction Safety at DEKRA UK. Having started his working life at the ICI Hazards and Process Studies Group, he has since enjoyed a 35 year career dedicated to the assessment of chemical reaction hazards and the laboratory assessment of a full range of process safety hazards including dust, gas and vapour flammability and explosives characterization. He is an experienced trainer and regular contributor to national and international process safety conferences and symposia.
