SERVICES/RELIEF AND FLARE SYSTEMS DESIGN
RELIEF AND FLARE
SYSTEMS DESIGN
Feel confident in your relief system design and operation.
Relief and Flare Systems Design (RFSD) is a critical part of the process design and safe operations of a facility. A poorly designed relief and flare system could severely handicap plant operations and potentially lead to unintended consequences. Understanding nuances of RFSD and applying inherently safer design principles early in the life cycle of the process design can greatly simplify the design and can significantly reduce the overall risk and lead to lower lifecycle costs. We approach every evaluation with this understanding in mind. Our experts ensure adherence to relief system industry codes, standards, and practices, as well as client specific guidelines.
Our Services
- System Design for Preliminary and Detailed Engineering SME Support
- Existing Relief System Design Revalidation
- Third-party Audits of relief system design
- Represent your company in API Subcommittee for Overpressure Protection.
Why Hari Attal Process Safety Consulting?
Our experts have been
- active contributing members of API Subcommittee on Overpressure Protection Standards for over18 years (API 520, 521,526/527 and 2000); representing the interests of industry players like Foster Wheeler, BP and Chevron. Supported numerous task force items to improve the API standard and supported making necessary updates to represented companies’ Engineering Standards.
- Led a 15 member API Task Force responding to 2 CSBs recommendations to enhance API 521 guidance post Williams Olefin Plant BLEVE incident in 2013– 2 fatalities and 160 injured. Proposed revisions incorporated in the new 7th edition released in June 2020.
- Presented at Industry meetings:
- Demystifying Existing Plants Relief System Studies: CCPS DIERS Users group meeting, October 2009, Houston
- Segregation in Relief System Design: CCPS DIERS Users group meeting, April 2010, Houston
- Relief System: Learning from incidents to avoid blockage: Permian Basin GPA Annual Meeting Midland, May 2010
- Are you releasing hydrocarbons from Relief Devices to Atmosphere? Is the location Safe? CCPS DIERS US and European Users Joint group meeting, 16 June 2011, Hamburg, Germany