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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Thermal Hazards Testing 3-Step Flow Chart

Posted by The Fauske Team on 06.21.18

Do you know how to conduct cost effective, precise and comprehensive process safety or thermal hazards testing and consulting when needed? What are your process safety management (PSM) standards when it comes to thermal hazards?

Let's focus on a 3-step process:

1. Prevent - Understand and eliminate undesired reactions

2. Mitigate - Understand and accommodate process upset scenarios

3. Operate - Understand and design your desired process chemistry

Thermal Hazards-Testing and ConsultingPrevent

First, in understanding and eliminating undesired reactions, determine critical safety parameters to avoid undesired reactions. Heat flow and adiabatic calorimetry can be determined by using lab equipment such as Vent Sizing Package 2 (VSP2 TM), Advanced Reactive Systems Screening Tool (ARSST TM), Advanced Reactive Systems Screening Tool (ARSST TM), Thermal Activity Monitor (TAM), Seteram C80, Accelerating Rate Calorimeter (ARC), Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC), Thermal Gravimetric Analysis (TGA), AKTS Software as key tools. These tests can determine:

- Onset Temperature

- Time to Maximum Rate (TMR)

- 24 Hour Adiabatic Decomposition Temperature (ADT24)

Mitigate

Design relief systems (rupture disks and relief valves) and effluent handling systems for single and two-phase flow. Low-phi factor (directly scalable) adiabatic calorimetry using VSP2 TM and ARSST TM used to determine:

- Adiabatic Temperature Rise Rates

- Adiabatic Pressure Rise Rates

- Pressure-Temperature Profile

- Design Vessel Relief Systems

Operate

Reaction Calorimetry using Mettler-Toledo RC1, ChemiSens CPA 202, THT-uRC used to determine:

- Heat of Production Rates

- Heat of Reaction

- Heat of Mixing

- Heat of Dissolution

- Adiabatic Temperature Rise (due to desired process chemistry)

- Heat Capacity of Reaction Mass

Here's another look in a graphic:

 Reaction Calorimetry

If you enjoyed learning about thermal hazards testing, check out our case study on low thermal inertia adiabatic calorimetry.  In this case study, FAI performs tests to determine what is the self accelerating decomposition temperature of a 50 kg package of azodicarbonamide. Download the case study now to to learn more about AKTS software, self accelerating decomposition temperature, the United States SADT test, and much more.
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Topics: process safety, thermal stability, reaction calorimetry, thermal hazard, adiabatic calorimeter, chemical

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