Reactive chemical hazards must be assessed in order to minimize risk to a chemical process. Pressure is the greatest threat to process vessel integrity, as it is rare that temperature alone will cause a vessel to fail. Therefore, it is critical to identify, characterize (by testing), and then mitigate or prevent the hazardous potential for overpressurization of your vessels.
- Heat from the desired reaction leading to a secondary reaction or decomposition reaction at elevated temperatures (generating non-condensable gas and/or vapor)
- Upset conditions (e.g. loss of cooling, excess catalyst, incorrect raw material added etc.) lead to greater or uncontrollable rates of reaction or alternative reactions (generating non-condensable gas and/or vapor)
- Self-heating or self-reactive substances during shipping or storage that over time can accumulate heat (generating non-condensable gas and/or vapor)
