Using BakerRisk staff’s wide range of knowledge and unique skillsets, we have assisted clients just like you in determining the consequences and risks associated with transporting their hazardous materials. We have also worked with clients to develop and evaluate mitigation options, assisted in post-incident investigations, and performed mechanical integrity testing when necessary. We have the expertise, experience, and computational tools required to quantify the consequences and transportation risks when moving hazardous materials via pipelines, truck, rail, ship, etc.
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At BakerRisk, we combine our experience from incident investigations with risk analysis results using our proprietary SafeSite3G© and QRATool© software to identify potential solutions, reduce risk exposures, and evaluate all possible benefits. Regardless of the transportation methods in question, our detailed assessments allow our professionals to go beyond simply quantifying the risk exposures and identify practical, feasible, and actionable risk mitigation measures.
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Understanding the consequences from pipeline loss-of-containment events is crucial to pipeline safety management. The methodology presented in this paper for determining consequences leverages BakerRisk’s expertise in dispersion and fire modeling for the refining and pipeline industries, supported and verified against field tests and benchmarked with findings from BakerRisk’s work with incident investigations. Once consequences are known and better understood, emergency response plans can be enhanced to help mitigate vulnerabilities and exposures to such events. Using pipeline-specific information for dispersion and fire modeling, consequences can be represented by distances to thresholds of concern such as flammable concentration and thermal radiation endpoints of interest. In addition, modeling can be used to assess endpoints for other hazards such as toxic exposure and explosion impacts; however, this paper focuses only on flammable and thermal consequences.
Numerous fatalities and serious health effects have occurred in the process industries through personnel exposure to toxic chemicals and materials. A Toxic Inhalation Hazard (TIH) chemical can be particularly hazardous as a release of some chemicals cannot be detected through sight or smell. TIH chemicals are widely handled in process units and also transported by road, rail, marine, and pipeline. Fatal incidents involving chlorine (Graniteville, SC, 2005), hydrofluoric acid (South Korea, 2012), and methyl mercaptan (MeSH) (La Porte, TX, 2014) (Ref.1) emphasize the risks of TIH chemicals if they are not handled with a sense of vulnerability and proper care. Most elements of CCPS Risk Based Process Safety (RBPS)(Ref. 2), plus some engineering design considerations, are important for the proper handling of TIH chemicals.
The release of API’s Recommended Practice 1172 has brought with it questions from the pipeline industry on how to implement and execute the practice
In September, 1997 an LPG release occurred at the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation, Ltd refinery in Vishakhpatnam, India. The resulting explosion and fire destroyed most of the facility's administrative buildings, numerous LPG storage vessels, processing units, and an adjacent petroleum liquid storage terminal. Fifty-six people were declared dead, but the fatality number could have been as high as 3 times the official estimate. Property damage was estimated at US $15 million.
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