All of us are aware of portable gas monitors, those instruments with the built in sensors that give out an alarm in case they detect the presence of a gas (or fail to detect a sufficient level of a gas like Oxygen). We all know how to use them. We use portable LEL meters, before … Read more
Modern chemical and hydrocarbon processing plants, oil & gas production facilities, power plants and other similar process plants all have some instrumented systems that ensure functional safety. These are known as Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS for short). This post is about SIS and how you can avoid certain pitfalls while designing them. To those of … Read more
As if we did not have enough of welding related fire accidents in conventional plants (read my last post on the issue here ), now we have a report of a similar accident in a Japanese nuclear plant. Here is the incident reported by various agencies: A fire broke out at a nuclear power plant … Read more
It is now almost three years since the Buncefield oil storage depot explosion took place and finally the authorities have declared, that they will be pressing criminal charges against five companies, ostensibly who have been found guilty of acts of omission. For those of you who do not remember the case, here is a short … Read more
