& Assurance Center P2SAC Davidson School of Chemical - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Purdue Process Safety & Assurance Center ’P2SAC’

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering Purdue University

Bhopal, India – 1984; +2,000 fatalities

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Texas Tech University; Chem Lab – 2010 Imperial Sugar, Georgia – 2008; 14 fatalities BP Texas City, 2005; 15 fatalities

P2SAC Formed in 2014

• A challenging quantitative / technical discipline;

scope not widely recognized

• Conduct process safety related research focusing on fundamental

science

• Teach process safety courses and instill Process Safety Management

(PSM) considerations in core capstone design projects (~190 UG and Grad students enrolled Fall ‘17)

• Engage UG & Prof MS students in process safety research
• Source of expertise for industry and other stakeholders regarding

process safety related standards & best practices

• Focus on oil & gas industry, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, agriculture,

and technology including consumer products and manufacturing

• Research projects solicited from industry sponsors, as well as other

stakeholders such as academia & government labs

• Enhance education experience of all Purdue Chem Eng graduates

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P2SAC ‘17 Research Program

PhD

• Re-examine current basis for gas and

fire detector placement

• Optimal placement of gas detectors in

process facilities: bringing optimization- based gas detector placement into practice

• Prevention through catalyst design for

applications in the petrochemical industry

• Robust model-based control for safe

pharmaceutical manufacturing

• Advanced separation techniques for

producing rare earth elements and

• ther chemicals from coal fly ash
• Computational analysis of drop

coalescence in emulsions to reduce retention times in oil-water separators MS Projects

• Compilation of thermal hazard safety data

for amide coupling reagents - COMPLETE

• Validate large scale consequence modeling

with Middle East propane release - COMPLETE UG Research

• Conduct a process safety related

benchmarking survey of the pharmaceutical industry, including data base of incidents

• Frequency & cause of LNG metallurgy

failures

• Risk & Reliability of Aged Natural Gas &

Product Pipelines

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Multiple Chemical Engineering Faculty Engaged in Process Safety Related Research

PhD

• Re-examine current basis for gas and

fire detector placement

• Optimal placement of gas detectors in

process facilities: bringing optimization- based gas detector placement into practice

• Prevention through catalyst design for

applications in the petrochemical industry

• Robust model-based control for safe

pharmaceutical manufacturing

• Advanced separation techniques for

producing rare earth elements and

• ther chemicals from coal fly ash
• Computational analysis of drop

coalescence in emulsions to reduce retention times in oil-water separators

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CHEN 420 / 597- Chemical Process Safety – core UG course

Personnel vs. Process Safety & Metrics Applicable regulations: OSHA PSM, EPA RMP, etc Source Term Modeling Toxicants & Industrial Hygiene Toxic/Flammable Gas Release Dispersion Modeling Fire & Explosion Protection Chemical Reactivity Relief System Design Hazards Identification (HAZOP, ..) Risk Assessment (Matrix, QRA, ..) Accident Investigations

6 T-2 Laboratories, FL – ’09; 4 fatalities

P2SAC Fall Conference - Dec 5, 2017

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8:00‐8:15 Prof Osman Basaran: Welcome, status of P2SAC and agenda 8:15‐8:45 Prof Ray Mentzer: P2SAC vision, UG & MS research, core process safety course 8:45‐9:25 Prof Carl Laird: Systems engineering and optimization techniques for improved safety and security

• f critical infrastructure; b) Gas detector placement in petrochemical and chemical facilities

9:25‐10:05 Prof Raj Gounder: Prevention through catalyst design for applications in the petrochem industry 10:05‐10:20 Refreshment break 10:20‐10:50 Prof Kingsly Ambrose (Ag Eng): Dust Explosions: preventive precautions 10:50–11:30 George Harriott (Air Products): Leak detection on gas pipelines 11:30‐12:00 Prof Brett Savoie: Using high throughput simulations to predict safety figures of merit for

• rganic compounds

12:00‐12:50 Catered lunch 12:50–1:30 Prof Zoltan Nagy: Robust fault-tolerant control for continuous direct compaction & runaway reactions and overview of research in pharma engineering 1:30-2:00 Stan Kolis (Eli Lilly): Early phase thermal hazard assessments in the pharma industry 2:00‐2:40 Prasad Goteti (Honeywell): SIL rated communication protocols 2:40‐3:10 Jonathan Bach (NIOSH): Prevention through Design 3:10‐3:25 Refreshment break 3:25–3:55 Marabeth Holsinger (Dow): Calorimetric determination of the oxidation of solids and organics adsorbed on solids 3:55-4:25 Prof Linda Wang: Economical & environmentally sound technology for producing rare earth elements and others from coal fly ash 4:25‐4:55 Prof Letian Dou: Lead-containing halide perovskites nonmaterial for energy harvesting and related safety issues 4:55 – 5:25 Prof Osman Basaran: Drop and bubble coalescence, thin films, and flow assurance 5:25 – 5:35 Short Break 5:35‐6:15 Open discussion, industry needs and future center projects; followed by dinner at 7:00

Current Sponsors

Advisory Board also includes Air Products & National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health (NIOSH) Typical Sponsor agreement is $25k / year for 3 years Room for More … long list of potential research projects & open to suggested projects from Sponsors

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