Environment, Health, Safety & Security
New Technologies Promote Improved Combustion
Innovative burner and combustion systems optimize combustion, improving safety, effectiveness and efficiency while lowering emissions In burner and combustion operations, chemical processors must balance emissions and safety requirements with achieving optimal system performance in a cost-effective way. Further, many chemical…
Managing Safety Across Development Stages
For novel process technologies, each development stage brings new safety obligations. This guide provides a practical framework for navigating safety responsibilities from early R&D to commercialization Developing new process technologies — especially those involving hazardous materials or operations at high…
Barrier Management: Driving Process Safety Improvement
The barrier-management approach to process safety can help organizations better understand and proactively address the risk inherent in their operations Facilities in the chemical process industries (CPI) have many barriers in place to prevent or limit the effects of a…
U.S. CSB releases second update on 2024 explosion in Kentucky
The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB; Washington, D.C.; www.csb.gov) has released a second update on the agency’s ongoing investigation of the November 12, 2024, explosion at the Givaudan Sense Colour facility in Louisville, Kentucky. The explosion fatally…
Optimizing Chemical Transport: Strategies for Enhancing Efficiency and Safety
Key technologies and approaches can help chemical transport operations meet regulations, while also reducing risk and expenditure The chemical process industries have felt the pressure of global economic shifts more than most in recent years, forcing many to look for…
Carbon Clean and MODEC collaborate to accelerate scaleup of carbon-capture technology for FPSO vessels
Carbon Clean (London, U.K.; www.carbonclean.com), a global leader in carbon capture solutions, and MODEC (Tokyo, Japan; www.modec.com), a leading provider of offshore floating platforms, have signed a landmark agreement to jointly develop and scale Carbon Clean’s CycloneCC carbon capture technology…
CSB issues final report on 2024 explosion at liquid nitriding facility in Tennessee
The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB; Washington, D.C.; www.csb.gov) today released its final report into the fatal explosion and eruption at the Techniques Surfaces USA liquid nitriding facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee, that fatally injured an employee on…
Sustainability maintains momentum
The past several years have seen rapid growth in technologies designed to mitigate the effects of climate change. Advances have been made in decarbonization efforts, such as alternatives to petroleum-based fuel sources including biofuels, hydrogen, solar, wind and other renewables;…
This single-pot reaction scheme could open the path to recycling used tires
Recycling vehicle tires is complicated because the rubbers used (including butadiene and polyisoprene) are highly cross-linked, and because pyrolysis-based recycling of the rubbers generates environmentally hazardous compounds like benzene and dioxins. Now, researchers at the University of North Carolina at…
This MOF selectively adsorbs CO2 from biogas and can be regenerated under mild conditions
Biogas — produced from anaerobic digestion of organic matter — contains a mixture of gases, with methane and carbon dioxide as the predominant components. To use biogas as a fuel source, purification of the gas is typically needed to remove…