Process Safety Engineering Fundamentals - PSF - eLearning Course

Program Overview

It targets engineers involved in facility integrity and operations, enhancing their ability to prevent or mitigate safety risks in an oil and gas environment.

Program Outline

The applications provide an opportunity to integrate the concepts and methods in an oil and gas environment. Each module includes two 90-minute interactive sessions with the instructor, in which the applications and any concerns the participants may have will be discussed in detail. Frequent references will be made to historical incidents and common areas of process safety concern. By the end of the program, participants should be ready to apply their learning on the job. There is also an instructor-led version of this course.

Target Audience:

Facilities and/or process engineers, as well as engineers and operations staff involved in process safety and asset integrity.

You Will Learn:

• Risk analysis and Inherently Safer Design (ISD): Select and apply common methods of risk analysis.
• Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) techniques and Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA): Select appropriate PHA methods, including HAZOP and API 14C.
Identify suitable applications for LOPA.
• Leakage and dispersion, combustion behavior, sources of ignition: Estimation of hydrocarbon behavior on loss containment.
Identification of common ignition sources. Estimation of hydrocarbon behavior following ignition. Application of learnings to an exercise that will run throughout this series of skill modules.
• Historical Incident Databases (HID), metrics, and specific facilities (bad actors): Applications of HID.
Identify potential process safety incidents at the example facility by considering specific systems and equipment (bad actors).
• Relief, flare, and depressurization: Size a relief valve for vapor service.
Size a relief valve for liquid service. Describe how to calculate the relief load due to full bore failure of a heat exchanger tube. Calculate inbreathing and outbreathing for atmospheric tanks. Identify the key sizing parameters for flare headers and depressuring systems. Explain the advantages, disadvantages, and typical applications of commonly used instrumentation. Explain the application of commonly-used process control techniques. Explain how a SIS (Emergency Shutdown System) is applied in facility design. Apply the learning to the example facility.
• Spacing and layout, fire prevention: Identify the tradeoffs inherent in spacing and layout decisions, with regard for their process safety implications.
Explain the logic behind decisions regarding fire prevention philosophy, selection and location of fire and gas detectors, and firefighting equipment. Apply learnings to the example facility.

Teaching:

• Teaching Methods: The course utilizes a blended learning approach, combining self-paced online modules with interactive instructor-led sessions.
• Faculty: Peter Williams is the instructor for the On-Demand format.

Other:

• Course Content: Risk analysis and Inherently Safer Design (ISD), Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) techniques and Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA), Leakage and dispersion, combustion behavior, sources of ignition, Historical Incident Databases (HID), metrics, and specific facilities (bad actors), Relief, flare, and depressurization, Controls and Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS), Spacing and layout, fire prevention.
• Product Details:
• Categories:
Midstream
• Disciplines:
Process Facilities, Health, Safety, Environment
• Levels:
Foundation
• Product Type:
Course
• Formats Available:
On-Demand, Virtual
• Instructors:
Peter Williams
• On-Demand Format: Available Immediately
• Course Price: $3,990.00
• Public Session Request: Available
• In-House Training: Available upon request as a private, on-site seminar.