Webinar
The "Anatomy of a Runaway" Approach: A Case Study on Deconstructing Runaway Reaction Risks in a Hazardous Process
How confident are you that your protocols for identifying, assessing and mitigating chemical reaction and decomposition hazards are adequately addressing your risks?
Gaps can exist in legacy processes where assessments have not kept pace with evolving good practice. The same weaknesses can also be carried into process modifications, scale-up and new process development.
In this technical, case-study-led webinar, DEKRA’s process safety specialists will explore a real vegetable oil epoxidation process involving hydrogen peroxide and performic acid.
Following an HSE Improvement Notice, the operating company needed to demonstrate that its runaway reaction risks were properly understood and adequately controlled.
Key learnings
By attending, you’ll gain practical insight into:
- How to identify credible runaway reaction scenarios
- How to assess whether existing safeguards are genuinely effective
- Why reactive chemistry requires a different approach to conventional hazard studies
- The complexities involved in emergency relief system design
- How Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) can be used to assess residual risk
Whether you are reviewing an existing process, supporting scale-up or developing a new one, this session will help you challenge assumptions, identify potential gaps and strengthen confidence in your approach to runaway reaction risk.