Fauske & Associates uses a data-backed approach to solve complex process safety problems and prevent or mitigate accidents in the chemical and nuclear industries. We provide custom solutions including site assessments, full service testing, engineering, simulation, consulting, and training to nearly every industry from food processing to power generation.
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A site evaluation brings our safety experts to your facility to collaborate with your team in reviewing existing practices, equipment, and procedures. We determine your risk level and suggest ways to quantify or reduce risk, which often requires data on plant specific materials such as accumulated dust or reactive chemicals.
Our state-of-the-art process safety laboratory provides critical data on combustible dust, gas, or vapors, or on any reactive chemical hazards identified during a site evaluation. We perform experimental simulation of credible "worst case scenarios" and can demonstrate the efficacy of proposed process improvements.
Based on the results of lab testing, we prepare a detailed report including our recommendations for process improvement, employee training, documentation, etc. If new safety systems are required, we work with you and vendors to develop an effective solution.
The innovative design of the Vent Sizing Package 2 (VSP2TM) was developed by FAI in the 1980’s under the DIERS research program to address the need for an adiabatic calorimeter with low thermal-inertia and a well-mixed sample (~80 ml).
The VSP2 is suitable for directly scalable simulation of process upsets and runaway chemical reactions, functioning as a mini thin-wall chemical reactor enclosed in a protective containment vessel. Continuous pressure-temperature data during a chemical runaway facilitates parametric variation of relief set pressure when analyzing the adequacy of an existing pressure relief vent.
The Advanced Reactive System Screening Tool (ARSSTTM) is a low thermal-inertia screening calorimeter, developed as a simplified alternative to the VSP2.
The ARSST quickly provides pseudo-adiabatic and directly scalable data for characterizing thermal and decomposition hazards using a smaller but still well-mixed sample (~10 ml) in a vented spherical glass test cell. It is ideal for energetic and gas generating reactions, and the data are amenable to simplified vent sizing methods.
The Fauske Emergency Relief Sizing Tool (FERST) powered by CHEMCAD is practical software designed to help you ensure that your chemical processes are adequately protected against overpressure from process upsets and runaway chemical reactions.
FERST is the complete package combining a practical and easy-to-use interface, straightforward calculation methods, the direct use of temperature and pressure rise rates from low ф-factor calorimetry data, industry standard DIERS two-phase flow models, and the material property, thermodynamic, and software development expertise from ChemstationsTM.
