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About the presentation
There are few available relevant guidance documents/standards for the design of these areas in terms of safety during an ignited event (e.g. COP CP 33). Based on a case study on a real facility undertaken by Gexcon, it is felt that the safety distances outlined in the code of practice could be under-predicted in some circumstances, which could lead to inadequate separation distances, resulting in non-conservative designs, higher risks, non-ALARP designs, etc.
This presentation aims to investigate the discrepancies between the currently available guidance with the results from our case study.
About the speakers
Graham Morrison
UK Director of Consulting & Shell Software Product Manager @ Gexcon
Graham is the Consulting Director of Gexcon UK and the Product Manager of Shell software. He has ten years of process safety consulting experience, including various hydrogen projects. As part of his role as Product Manager for the Shell software products, FRED, Shepherd, and PIPA, he has been involved in testing the application of the modelling tools to hydrogen problems. He also holds an MBA (Global Energy) from Warwick Business School, which is heavily focused on the energy transition.
Pablo Giacopinelli
Pablo has more than 10 years of experience in conducting CFD studies in various industries, including O&G, nuclear, biomass, and civil and aerospace engineering, with a primary focus on modelling the consequences of explosion and fire phenomena, and dispersion hazards such as flammable vapours and toxic exposures. He is an Aeronautical Engineer who graduated from the National University of La Plata (Argentina) with postgraduate studies at the University of Manchester (UK).
