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Process Safety Engineering – Relief & Blowdown Study

DURATION: 3 Days

INSTRUCTOR: Mr. Abdulmalik Ahmad

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Pressure relief can be caused by a number of events including fire, reaction runaway, thermal expansion and process abnormality. Incorrect design of pressure relief systems continues to result in major safety and environmental incidents with resultant business consequences. Incidents can occur because of failure to provide relief, inadequate relief capacity, disposal system failure or incorrect design and installation. A structured approach to pressure relief design is vital to ensure protection of the plant from excessive over and under pressure. This 3-day course is based on our extensive experience of design installation and maintenance of relief and blowdown systems, and covers a state-of-the-art methodology, based on a life cycle approach to pressure relief.

This course is for engineers, technicians, and others responsible for the selection, sizing, and application of safety relief valves and blowdown systems.

At the end of this course, you should be able to know:

  • Purposes of relief and flare systems, and their importance in safe operations.
  • Relief study code requirements.
  • Causes of overpressure and the ways to control or mitigate it (relief study).
  • Layers of protection.
  • Types of overpressure protection devices.
  • Safety instrument systems.
  • How to define relief cases considering operations, upset/abnormal
  • conditions, and emergency situations (such as fire).
  • Commonly used pressure-relieving devices and how to select and size these devices.
  • How to determine set/relieving pressures to meet operational and requirements.
  • How to define the de-pressuring calculation requirements, sizing basis and design basis.
  • Operational considerations of maintenance, testing, certification, and disposal of fluids.

Mr. Abdulmalik Ahmed is a process engineer, with extensive experience in engineering design. He has experience in engineering projects executed within the oil and gas industry which include conceptual studies, Front End Engineering Design (FEED), Detailed Engineering Design (DED), facility de-bottle necking and information management in onshore, offshore, and floating facilities. He has also engaged in several field exercises for information gathering and technical problems supports

He is proficient in the use of Hysys for process simulations and blowdown analysis, Pipesim for steady state flow assurance studies, Flaresim for flare radiation studies, PHAST for Flare/Vent dispersion studies, Flarenet for flare system network analysis as well as IPRSM (Intelligent Pressure Relief System Management), AutoCAD, Navisworks and Microsoft Visio.

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