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About the webinar
Throughout the history of the process industries, there have been a number of incidents where accidental releases of flammable materials have led to fires and/or explosions—resulting in multiple injuries and fatalities, both onsite and offsite. Regardless of regulatory requirements, facility managers carry the responsibility to not only identify hazards but also to understand the potential consequences of unintentional releases.
Leveraging guidance from regulatory bodies and industry best practices, safety stakeholders perform siting studies to help prevent and mitigate the potential impact of accidental toxic and flammable releases to those onsite and offsite. These studies can ensure the appropriate layout of process equipment to avoid or minimize the consequences of releases, such as congested areas and ignition sources, as well as to minimize the risk to personnel onsite in control rooms, admin and maintenance buildings.
While many of these analyses can be performed in a more qualitative manner by considering “maximum credible” events, at times it is necessary to conduct more advanced quantitative studies to understand the potential risks to the plant and public—and to identify mitigation measures to help minimize such risk.
This session talks about advanced approaches for modelling hazards in LNG facilities (e.g. toxic and flammable releases, jet and pool fires, and vapour cloud explosions). The discussion covers when it is appropriate to use analytical 2D tools or when it is appropriate to apply more advanced 3D CFD modelling tools.
About the speaker
Drew Botwinick
Managing Risk Engineer @ Gexcon US
Drew Botwinick has been performing quantitative safety studies for the past 10 years. He has broad experience working with quantifying the consequences of major hazards in various types of Oil and Gas facilities across the world in different regulatory contexts. Drew has published and presented several papers on process safety. More recently, his work has focused on LNG siting studies and QRAs in the US domestic market.
