Conference Papers
The catastrophic or major incident is immediately investigated, but what about the near misses or precursors to major incidents? Are they investigated? Major failures often do not occur as one iso-lated issue or event; there are often less severe precursors to a major event. This paper presents a best practice and arguments for reviewing apparently minor ammonia plant failures in order to avoid ma-jor events as demonstrated through the judicious analysis of small equipment failures. Multiple small equipment case histories and the lessons learned from these failure investigations are presented to encourage investigation of what may initially appear as insignificant failures, for their value in pre-vention of major incidents.
As the biofuels industry continues to expand in support of global decarbonization mandates and objectives, facility owners and developers are being challenged to balance production efficiency, operational reliability, and personnel safety.
As high hazard facilities, biofuels sites should focus on developing a fire protections strategy informed by performance-based analysis so strategies implemented meet the unique challenges found at each facility.
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