Hazards Analysis, Code Compliance & Procedure Development

Services to identify process safety hazards and facilitate compliance with established standards and codes.

Combustible Dust Testing

Laboratory testing to quantify dust explosion and reactivity hazards

Flammable Gas & Vapor Testing

Laboratory testing to quantify explosion hazards for vapor and gas mixtures

Chemical Reactivity Testing

Laboratory testing to quantify reactive chemical hazards, including the possibility of material incompatibility, instability, and runaway chemical reactions

ISO Accreditation and Scope
Fauske & Associates fulfills the requirements of ISO/IEC 17025:2017 in the field of Testing
DIERS Methodology

Design emergency pressure relief systems to mitigate the consequences of unwanted chemical reactivity and account for two-phase flow using the right tools and methods

Deflagrations (Dust/Vapor/Gas)

Properly size pressure relief vents to protect your processes from dust, vapor, and gas explosions

Effluent Handling

Pressure relief sizing is just the first step and it is critical to safety handle the effluent discharge from an overpressure event

Thermal Stability

Safe storage or processing requires an understanding of the possible hazards associated with sensitivity to variations in temperature

UN-DOT

Classification of hazardous materials subject to shipping and storage regulations

Safety Data Sheets

Develop critical safety data for inclusion in SDS documents

Biological

Model transport of airborne virus aerosols to guide safe operations and ventilation upgrades

Radioactive

Model transport of contamination for source term and leak path factor analysis

Fire Analysis

Model transport of heat and smoke for fire analysis

Flammable or Toxic Gas

transport of flammable or toxic gas during a process upset

OSS consulting, adiabatic & reaction calorimetry and consulting

Onsite safety studies can help identify explosibility and chemical reaction hazards so that appropriate testing, simulations, or calculations are identified to support safe scale up

Mechanical, Piping, and Electrical

Engineering and testing to support safe plant operations and develop solutions to problems in heat transfer, fluid flow, electric power systems

Battery Safety

Testing to support safe design of batteries and electrical power backup facilities particularly to satisfy UL9540a ed.4

Hydrogen Safety

Testing and consulting on the explosion risks associated with devices and processes which use or produce hydrogen

Spent Fuel

Safety analysis for packaging, transport, and storage of spent nuclear fuel

Decommissioning, Decontamination and Remediation (DD&R)

Safety analysis to underpin decommissioning process at facilities which have produced or used radioactive nuclear materials

Laboratory Testing & Software Capabilities

Bespoke testing and modeling services to validate analysis of DD&R processes

Nuclear Overview

Our Nuclear Services Group is recognized for comprehensive evaluations to help commercial nuclear power plants operate efficiently and stay compliant.

Severe Accident Analysis and Risk Assessment

Expert analysis of possible risk and consequences from nuclear plant accidents

Thermal Hydraulics

Testing and analysis to ensure that critical equipment will operate under adverse environmental conditions

Environmental Qualification (EQ) and Equipment Survivability (ES)

Testing and analysis to ensure that critical equipment will operate under adverse environmental conditions

Laboratory Testing & Software Capabilities

Testing and modeling services to support resolution of emergent safety issues at a power plant

Adiabatic Safety Calorimeters (ARSST and VSP2)

Low thermal inertial adiabatic calorimeters specially designed to provide directly scalable data that are critical to safe process design

Other Lab Equipment and Parts for the DSC/ARC/ARSST/VSP2 Calorimeters

Products and equipment for the process safety or process development laboratory

FERST

Software for emergency relief system design to ensure safe processing of reactive chemicals, including consideration of two-phase flow and runaway chemical reactions

FATE

Facility modeling software mechanistically tracks transport of heat, gasses, vapors, and aerosols for safety analysis of multi-room facilities

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Recent Posts

Einstein's Original 1905 E=mc2 Paper

Posted by Chris Henry, PhD on 02.11.19

 Christopher E. Henry, PhD, Senior Consulting Engineer, Fauske & Associates, LLC

Einstein Nuclear HeadshotLong ago, colleague Dr. Michael Epstein told me that Einstein’s E=mc2 theory was merely a 3-page technical note published in the back of a technical journal in 1905. I stumbled upon what I believe to be this paper, translated to English and compiled by Princeton University with other works of that era (his works and possibly others). I thought it might be of interest to those that may put their toe in this pond occasionally. Indeed, it is brief. Einstein makes it look easy, as it is for a master of his craft. The simple functional form of the equation reveals the true nature of the behavior. Mass is the “rest” energy of matter at rest. The functional form is merely part of the more familiar kinetic energy, as demonstrated in the paper. Some people view the behavior in terms of mass as a property of energy. Owing to my engineering roots, I prefer the rest energy depiction, with matter as a “condensed” or “bound” form of energy that appeared in the aftermath of the Big Bang. Ironically, most people (myself included until recently, I never bothered to look) are not familiar with these more fundamental, yet relatively simple, concepts. They know it in the applied sense for the opposite process of the fission mass defect conversion back into energy.

By the way, on the topic of fission, Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn pioneered fission, but Leo Szilard pioneered the concept of the chain reaction, without which the harnessing of fission would be impractical. Szilard’s contribution is a historical milestone that I had overlooked also.

Einstein Nuclear TextFauske & Associates, LLC is the world leader in nuclear waste processing and other nuclear testing and engineering services in addition to chemical process safety. Stay up-to-date on the latest news and insight within the nuclear industry by subscribing to our nuclear technical bulletin. 

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Dr. Henry is a Senior Engineering Consultant at Fauske & Associates, LLC currently working on consequence analysis for pipe failure.

Topics: chemical process safety, nuclear

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