Environment, Health, Safety & Security
May Letters
LEAN Chemical Manufacturing There has been a great deal of new activity around so-called lean thinking or the lean enterprise lately, even though the practical application has been going on since the early 1900s. It was started by Henry Ford,…
Eliminating Potential Process Hazards
Originally published in the April 1, 1985 issue, this 21 page article contains timeless recommendations for ensuring plant safety. This article is available in pdf form only. Please click on the pdf tab at the top of the article to…
PEMS: The Low-Cost Alternative To Emissions Monitoring
Regulatory authorities around the world require continuous emissions monitoring of certain pollutants from large combustion sources. There are two main technologies for monitoring these emissions on a continuous basis — the more traditional one relies on sampling and analyzing exhaust…
Designing Safer Process Plants
Many individuals and organizations have made important contributions to the creation of inherently safer (IS) products, processes and process plants [1–3]. A brief survey of successful case histories shows that most reported applications relied on only a few of the…
Define Alerts and Reminders for Notification of Plant Conditions
Operator Alert is the newest addition to this firm’s critical-condition-management products. Operator Alert lets plant operators easily define alerts and reminders to notify them of plant conditions, while allowing quick and effective configuration of new alerts. Operator Alert has both…
Use this rupture disc in clean applications
Designed specifically for the pharmaceutical, biotech and food and beverage industries, the Sanitrx MP rupture disc features severe service application capabilities. This rupture disc offers reliable performance from full vacuum to the recommended operating pressure in excess of 100,000 cycles.…
Flo-Tel rupture disc detection system
Oseco The Flo-Tel rupture disc detection system (photo) is a noninvasive sensor that operates with a reed-switch and magnet technology. The design avoids several challenges of standard rupture disc sensors. Some sensors require replacement or rewiring after one use, and…
Manage GHG reporting with this package
This greenhouse-gas-(GHG) reporting startup package is designed to help companies quickly set up the calculations, data collection and quality control and assurance processes that are necessary for important source categories of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s mandatory GHG reporting rule.…
This jet scrubber is submerged
GEA Wiegand The submerged jet scrubber (photo) is an advanced development of the jet scrubber, combining the separation of particles with physical and chemical absorption. It consists of a wash pipe with or without wall rinsing, a specially designed gas…
Modeling exposure scenarios for REACH compliance
EasyTRA is a new software tool for modeling complex exposure scenarios for REACH compliance. It is said to be the first software application that enables chemical companies to produce, automatically, extended safety data sheets (eSDS) containing appendices with details of…