Organization and Projects of the Center for Chemical Process Safety

Thomas W. Carmody, Director CCPS AIChE, 345 East 47th St., New York, N.Y. 10017

Text of speech given at the Conference on Preventing Major Chemical and Related Process Accidents May 10-12, 1988 at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London, UK. The conference was organized by the UK Institution of Chemical Engi- neers in Association with the Center for Chemical Process Safety of the AIChE.

It is a pleasure to be here for this second international meeting focusing on the subject of Preventing Major Chemical Process Accidents. As I think most of you know, this meeting and the first meeting of this nature, which took place in February 1987 in Washington, DC, were jointly sponsored by IChemE, the Center for Chemical Process Safety, and the World Bank and this time also, the European Federation of Chemical Engineers.

We at CCPS are pleased to participate in these International type technical meetings. We feel there is much benefit to all. As we continue to get further into specific technical subjects relative to Prevention of Major Chemical Accidents, it becomes clear that the approaches in technical areas are sometimes different in different parts of the world and knowledge of these differences can be most useful and can prevent wasteful duplication.

Thus, CCPS is supportive of future international technical meetings related to Prevention of Major Chemical Accidents. We recognize that organizations in Europe and the US have for some time been having meetings relating to Major Chemical Accidents. We respect the traditional scheduling of these meetings and are anxious to support them where appropriate.

the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in March of 1986 formed the Center for Chemical Process Safety as a Directorate of the AIChE.

Organization and Projects of the Center for Chemical Process Safety.

60,000 members which represents and serves the chemical engineering profession. CCPS was organized and staffed to provide technical information and conduct research on issues relating to prevention of major chemical accidents. In particular, CCPS will assemble and publish process safety procedures that are currently in use. Frequently, people state that we are producing standards. This is not true. We issue “Guidelines”, representing the latest technology and current industry practices which offer alternative approaches to the chemical process safety. On some occasions, our “Guidelines” have been listed for reference in state and Federal regulations and studies.

CCPS under its Charter is required to maintain an open dialogue with trade and professional organizations, governments, and other interested organizations to communicate objectives, avoid duplications, and provide technical input as appropriate. On the other hand, it is clearly stated in our Charter that CCPS will not lobby either the legislative or regulative arms of the State or Federal Governments. In the US, lobbying is usually carried out by trade organizations. We do keep contact with the American Petroleum Institute, the Chemical Manufacturers’ Association, the Chemical Specially Manufacturers’ Association, the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers’ Association, the Federal EPA and to some extent, the State EPA organizations. All of these organizations we hope will support and possibly promote the sale of the CCPS “Guideline” series to their members and employees.

Board, The Technical Steering Committee and its Project Committees, and the CCPS staff.

organizations-25 chemical, such as DuPont, Dow, and Monsanto; 6 oil, such as ARCO, Exxon, and Shell; 5 contractors, 2 insurance companies, and 11 other diverse organizations, such as AT&T, Goodyear Tire and Rubber, General Electric, IBM, and Procter and Gamble. Sponsors contribute from $5,000 to $25,000 per year to CCPS in accordance with the value of chemicals produced or used, or in accordance with services sold to those who produce or use chemicals.

This session is entitled Case History I-Bhopal. In response to the Bhopal tragedy in December 1985,

Thus, the organizers of this meeting felt it appropriate at this time to bring you up-to-date on the

I think most of you recognize AIChE is a non-profit educational scientific organization of approximately

The CCPS organization consists of five main entities: Sponsors, The Managing Board, the Advisory

CCPS is supported by a diverse group of Sponsors made up of 49 different companies and

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The Managing Board consists of nine members who are the officers of AIChE plus the Director of

The Advisory Board consists of ten to twenty five members and is peopled by officers or other CCPS.

management people from Sponsor organizations, members of the government, members of public interest groups, and members of academia. The purpose of the Advisory Board is to provide broad input and advice to the Managing Board and to the Technical Steering Committee.

The Technical Steering Committee consists of some twenty members from Sponsor organizations. The membership in the Technical Steering Committee is rotated each year such that all Sponsors may participate. The Technical Steering Committee develops the overall CCPS programs, scopes specific projects, and provides the Project Committees with volunteer members. The Project Committees, of which there are eleven at this time, are Subcommittees of the Technical Steering Committee and report progress at each of the three Technical Steering Committee meetings each year.

individuals with extensive past experience in industry.

to ten experts from Sponsor manufacturers or users of chemicals. Usually, contractors and consultants are not included as members of Project Committees to avoid any possible conflict of interest. A CCPS staff member is assigned to each Project Committee.

the project. If the project is a Guideline or Research project, a detail outline is developed and then a Request For Proposal is developed. Contractors are identified; bidding takes place; and a contractor is selected. The Director of CCPS participates in contractor selection to assure that projects fit into the long range CCPS financial plan. The Project Committee and staff follow the contractor work quality and progress to completion.

The work of the Project Committee is acknowledged in each Guideline. Members of the Project Committee and their organization affiliation are named. Since these individuals are among the outstanding experts in the U. S. relative to the area covered by the “Guideline” project, the comprehensiveness and integrity of the work is assured.

published four Guidelines and two Proceedings of CCPS meetings. They are listed with publication dates as follows:

The staff of CCPS consists of six full and part-time employees. At this time, all of the staff are retired

The Project Committees are made up of a Chairman from a Sponsor organization and peopled by seven

Usually all Project Committees work in the same fashion. First they reconfirm that there is a need for

What are the CCPS completed projects to date and what is planned for the future? To date, CCPS has

1. The Guideline for Hazard Evaluation: Published October 1985. This is a comprehensive summary of hazard evaluation techniques that has been well received with sales to date of over 2,500 copies.

2. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Preventing Major Chemical Accidents, sponsored by CCPS, EPA, and the World Bank: February 1987. This meeting had an attendance of over 300.

sponsored by CCPS, EPA, IChemE.: November 1987. For a specialty area, all were pleased with an attendance in excess of 300.

4. Guidelines for Use of Vapor Cloud Dispersion Models: Published April 1987. This is a review of some 40 models describing how models are constructed and how they can be used.

5. Guidelines for Safe Storage and Handling of High Toxic Hazard Materials: Published March 1988. This book touches on all aspects of this issue from siting and layout to design of tanks and piping, loading and unloading systems, instrumentation systems, and maintenance and inspection.

This book covers mitigation in the broadest sense and includes sections on detection, treatment and isolation of releases, using stacks, scrubbers, flares, and incinerators.

3. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Vapor Cloud Modeling, Cambridge Massachusetts,

6. Guidelines for Vapor Release Mitigation: Published April 1988.

Each year, a Planning Committee is appointed to suggest CCPS projects for a year hence. Input is broadly sought and the Planning Committee recommendations are presented to the Technical Steering Committee. Each year to date, ten projects have been approved for the future year. The Advisory and Managing Boards approve the projects as appropriate and the CCPS staff develops a multi-year financial- project plan which adjusts project work to financial expectations. This plan is reviewed and approved as appropriate in mid-year by the Technical Steering Committee and the two Boards.

to be started are listed with projected publication dates as follows: At this time, we have essentially agreed on our 1988 plans. The current projects under way and those

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RISK ASSESSMENT AND RELIABILITY DATA Guidelines for Chzmical Process Quantitative Risk Assessment Procedures Guidelines for Obtaining Process Equipment Reliability Data, With Available Data

TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT An Overview of Technical Management for Process Safety Guidelines for Technical Management for Process Safety Guidelines for Technical Management of Process Safety in Chemical Plants Middle Management Seminars on Technical Management of Process Safety Co-Sponsored

Research on Measuring the Effectiveness of Technical Management of Process Safety with the American Management Association

VAPOR CLOUD MODELING Workbook of Test Cases for Vapor Cloud Dispersion Models Research to Develop Two-Phase High Momentum Release Aerosol Discharge Model Guidelines for Use of Unconfined Vapor Cloud Explosion Models

REACTIVE CHEMICALS International Symposium on Reactive Chemicals, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Guidelines for Handling Reactive Chemicals CCPS, IChemE

OTHER Guidelines for Process Control Safety Research on the Design of Systems to Handle Foamy and Viscous Emergency

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UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION Homework Problems for Undergraduate Education in Chemical Process Safety

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CONTINUING EDUCATION Twelve Safety and Health-CCPS Series Courses Offered two to four times a year New Courses Included

Atmospheric Diffusion Modeling Risk Assessment in the Chemical Industry DIERS Technology

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As noted above, we now have four Guideline books available for sale. CCPS has scheduled an additional four books for the end of 1988 so by early 1989 we will have eight books on the market in the Guideline series. With this volume of new publications, the

Advisory Board and the Managing Board have been encouraging increase marketing efforts with the main objective of obtaining broad distribution of the CCPS Guideline series at all levels of chemical manufacture and use with special emphasis on the medium and smaller sized organizations. To accomplish this, the CCPS Guidelines are promoted through the usual channels of catalogues, book shows, and advertising. Several special new programs are under development are follows:

1. Sponsors are being encouraged to broadly disseminate the Guideline series to their plant and engineering locations. Sponsors may buy as many copies of the Guidelines as they wish at approximately 50% of the market price.

customers and other organizations with whom they deal that handle high toxic materials as a service to those organizations. Recently, published US regulations for organizations to reveal quantities of high toxic materials located at their plants are designed to encourage organizations to develop adequate plant process safety programs. Thus, Sponsors may well wish to assist their customers and others by widely distributing the Guideline series.

3. All large organizations are encouraged to buy the Guideline series by the CCPS volume discount schedule. Purchases of more than 100 titles of a Guideline series may be made at a 50% discount.

4. We have just engaged Clarke Associates Ltd. of Bristol, England to handle all AIChE and CCPS publications in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

2. Sponsors are being encouraged to purchase and then give copies of the Guideline series to their

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There is one other activity that CCPS is engaged in that will be of interest. In early 1989, as the CCPS Vapor Cloud Modeling Project Committee work progressed, the EPA requested CCPS to develop a multi-year research plan for the US on improving dense gas models. This has been done and EPA is now considering funding some of the proposed work. This work leads the CCPS Vapor Cloud Committee to call a meeting of all those in the world that were known to be carrying out research on improving dense gas vapor cloud models. This group met in Cambridge, Massachusetts on November 5, 1987 and reviewed all on-going and projected projects. The group plans to meet again on May 13, 1988 and will consider plans to regularly do the following:

1. share and more rapidly disseminate program proposals and results 2. share plans regarding on-going and future programs to improve awareness of potentially duplicate

In the interest of efficiency, CCPS will support this type of international cooperative research work as appropriate in the Vapor Cloud area or any other area related to prevention of Major Chemical Accidents.

For the foreseeable future, CCPS projects will probably continue with about the same mix of activities as we now have-the Guideline series, International meetings, Undergraduate and Continuing Education and Research all directed towards disseminating technical engineering information for the Prevention of Major Chemical Accidents. In the long range the CCPS emphasis may well shift primarily to research.

If you wish other information on CCPS, please write to Director's office, Center for Chemical Process Safety, AIChE, 345 East 47th Street, New York, New York 10017 or call USA (212) 705-7319.

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Guidelines for Safe Storage and Handling of High Toxic Hazard Materials Prepared by Arthur D. Little, lnc. & Richard LeVine These guidelines, published by AIChEs Center for Chemical Process Safety, are designed for engineers and technical personnel concerned with the safe manufacture and use of chemicals. The material has been carefully prepared and reviewed by experts in the field. This information is important to safe design and management in existing facilities and to the design of new plants. Information is based on existing regulations, codes and standards in use worldwide as well as safety requirements developed by individual companies. Contents include: Assessment of Potential Risks. Desian Considerations for a New Facility. Design of Storage & Piping $stems. Loading &Unloading Facilities. lnstrumentation/Controls & Detection. Isolation & Containment. Preventive Maintenance E Inspection. Operation Procedure & Training. Emergency Preparedness Planning. Tables & Figures. Glossary. Bibliography. Chemical Exposure Index. Hardcover.

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Guidelines for Vapor Release Mitigation Richard u! Prugh AIChE's Center for Chemical Process Safety's guidelines provide information to further the development and communication of improved safety methods, practices, designs and procedures in the chemical process industry. Contents: Introduction. Mitigation Through Inherently Safer Plants. Engineering Design Approaches to Mitigation. Process Safety Management Approaches to Mitigation. Mitigation Through Early Vapor Detection & Warning. Mitigation Through Countermeasures. On-Site Emergency Response. Alerting Local Authorities & the Public. Selection of Mitigation Measures. Loss-of-Containment Causes in the Chemical Industry. Properties of Some Hazardous Materials. Derivation of Fog Correlations. Catchtank Design. Capacity of Havens. Sources to Vapor-Mitigation Equipment Vendors. Figures, charts, bibliographies. Hardcover.

1988 141pp. ISBN 0-8169-0401-4 LC87-26987 Pub G-4 AlChE Members $40 Others $75

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