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Rakesh Patel, P.E., PMP, and Kurt Orndorff recently held a live webinar discussing the applications and benefits of modular process skid packages. If you were unable to attend, you can watch the replay below. This webinar is a must-see for understanding how to successfully evaluate if Modular Process Skids are the right choice for your plant. https://lnkd.in/g-UyATkp

The upcoming Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) 2024 Hazards Australasia Process Safety Conference will bring together chemical and process safety engineers from across the globe. Attendees will hear from industry experts on best practice, latest developments and lessons learned in process safety. The theme of this year’s conference, ‘Lead the Change’, is about focusing on the global grand challenges and working together to lead the planet through the necessary transitions ahead. Adrian MacHunter, MWS Risk Director and Process Safety and Fire Engineering expert will present at Hazards Australasia on the topic of ‘Mitigating Risks in Battery Energy Storage Systems: An Industry-Wide Perspective on Fire Hazards, Chemical Spills and Emergency Response’. Adrian will explore the complex risk scenarios challenging today’s energy sector in the face of the growing reliance on and rapidly changing, BESS technologies. Adrian will also discuss the importance of adopting a holistic approach and combining standard compliance with best practice to develop safer, more reliable and environmentally responsible energy storage solutions. #fireengineering #riskmanagement #bess #energystorage #conference #engineering

Across our six manufacturing locations around the world, we have 11 plants which run 24/7 while producing methanol. To ensure that they continue to operate efficiently and safely, for our employees, for the environment, and for our communities, we need to run regular maintenance. While some activities can be completed at any time, there are a few critical activities that require us to take a plant offline. Each plant comes down for about a month every four to five years so that we can complete turnarounds. Turnarounds are major maintenance events that allow us to complete maintenance, inspection, testing and upgrades on equipment and systems, as well as to change catalysts and execute capital projects, including those that enhance reliability and reduce process safety risk. Since hundreds of workers are involved and hundreds of thousands of work hours go into these maintenance events, safety is of the utmost importance. In 2023, Methanex continued to drive strong safety performance through three major turnaround projects around the globe. All three turnarounds achieved solid safety performance by focusing on proactive and consistent safety behaviours. We’re grateful to our team of employees and contractors who work together with a strong focus on zero harm. Learn more in our latest Sustainability Report here: https://bit.ly/3PcAxTs

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Check out this webinar, where a panel of engineering professionals and water treatment specialists explore how the latest Qdos CWT chemical metering equipment from Watson-Marlow have demonstrated significantly longer lifespan. https://bit.ly/3uStSXq

Reflecting on my past intervention, six years ago, following the successful construction and start-up of one of the mega projects completed in 2019 : A sulfuric acid plant with a daily capacity of 4,200 T. A challenging project successfully delivered , under an EPCM mode. #ProjectManagement #SulfuricAcid #EngineeringSuccess #MegaProjects #ChemicalEngineering #Collaboration #Leadership #ProcessEngineering #Construction #EnergyEfficiency #Sustainability #TeamAchievement #commissioning #chemicalmanufacturing

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Refineries are highly complex processing plants with significant interconnections, a range of products that can be produced and feedstocks available. Identifying processing options that have economic improvement potential requires chemical engineering talent but defining executable projects requires a range of Engineering and Design disciplines. An excellent and current example that I am excited to talk about is a project that Primoris Engineering recently studied for a North American Refinery exploring increasing gasoline production. The result was a project with a payback of less than two years. Two key features of the work was the optimization of the flow scheme and plant layout to reduce costs. 

Process safety management in the project life cycle   Managing process safety through a project life cycle in high hazard industry is vital. But at what stage of your project should you start to think about it? We believe that the initial stages of the project life cycle are where most of your preparation should be done. To find out why, take a look at our article in the latest issue (Spring 2024) of Chemicals Northwest Elements magazine.   #processsafety #riskassessment #hydrogen

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