Project Synopsis

Perform process safety and risk management Process Hazards Analysis (PHA) meetings to mitigate the possibility of accidents or releases.

Project Summary

PROCESS HAZARD ANALYSES (PHAs)

Typical Project Description

On numerous occasions Process Engineering Associates, LLC (PROCESS) has provided engineers experienced in process safety and risk management who have been part of PHA teams for the clients.  The teams performed PHAs of petroleum refining, petrochemical, NGL, and chemical processes to help the clients satisfy the PHA requirements as stated in paragraph (e) of OSHA’s process safety management (PSM) regulation, 29 CFR 1910.119, and part 68.67 of EPA’s risk management program (RMP) regulation, 40 CFR 68.  The objective of the PHAs was to discover potential accidents (i.e., toxic/flammable material releases, explosions, fires) that could directly impact employees, the public, and/or the environment.  PROCESS documented the PHAs to reasonably fulfill all pertinent regulatory requirements.

PROCESS has performed PHAs on the following specific units or processes:

  • Amine Units
  • Ammonium Thiosulfate (Thiosolv) Unit
  • Aromax Unit
  • Atmospheric Residual Desulfurization (ARDS) Unit
  • Benzene Hydrogenation Unit
  • Boilers for Steam Production
  • Butamer Unit
  • Catalytic Polymerization Unit
  • Catalytic Gas Hydrotreating Units
  • Catalytic Reforming Units including Continuous Catalytic Reforming (CCR)
  • Cavern Storage Units
  • Cooling Towers
  • Crude/Vacuum Units
  • Cyclohexane Concentrator Unit
  • Delayed Coker Unit
  • Demex (Liquid-Liquid Extraction) Unit
  • Distillate Hydrotreating Units
  • Ethane Recovery Unit
  • FCCU/Gas Concentration Units
  • Field Gas Gathering/Recovery Unit
  • Flare System
  • Fluidized Catalytic Cracking (FCC) Units
  • Fuel Gas Hydrotreating Unit
  • Gas Oil Hydrotreating Unit
  • Gasoline Rerun Unit
  • Heavy Alkylate Treating (HAT) Unit
  • Hexane Isomerization Unit
  • HF Alkylation Units
  • High Volatile Liquids Systems
  • Hydrogen Plants (Hydrogen Reformer Units)
  • Kerosene Hydrotreating Unit
  • Light Distillate Hydrotreating Unit
  • Light Ends Fractionation Units
  • Liquid Hydrogen Unloading System
  • Loading Racks (Railcar and Tank Truck)
  • Low Pressure Vapor Recovery Unit
  • LPG Cavern Storage
  • LPG Terminal Storage and Transfer Unit
  • Merox Units
  • Methyl Mercaptan Unit
  • Mid-Distillate Hydrotreating Unit
  • Naphtha Hydrotreating Unit
  • Natural Gas Compressor Stations
  • NGL Front End (Ethane Recovery) Unit
  • NGL Hydrotreating Unit
  • NGL Recovery Unit
  • NGL Storage Unit
  • NGL Tank Car and Tank Truck Loading and Unloading Unit
  • Offgas Treating Unit
  • Pentane Isomerization Units
  • Phthalic Anhydride Unit
  • Polymer Processes
  • Product Loading Rack Vapor Recovery Incineration System
  • Propane Deasphalting (PDA) Unit
  • Propylene Fractionation Unit
  • Refined Products Terminal Storage and Transfer
  • Saturate Liquids Units
  • SCOT Units
  • Scrubber Systems
  • Sodium Hydrosulfide (NaSH) Unit
  • Sour Water Stripping Unit
  • Sulferox Unit
  • Sulfolane/Benzene, Toluene, Xylene (BTX) Unit
  • Sulfur Recovery Units
  • Sulfuric Alkylation Unit
  • Tank Farm
  • Terminal Facility
  • Terminal Fractionation Process
  • Ultra Low Sulfur Gasoline (ULSG) Unit
  • Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel (ULSD) Units
  • Vaious Continuous and Batch Chemical Processes
  • Waste Water Treatment Unit.

Industry Type

  • Petroleum Refining
  • Petrochemicals
  • Natural Gas Liquids
  • Terminals
  • Pipelines

Utilized Skills

  • Performance and coordination of PHA meetings
  • Documentation of PHA results

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