Process containment is the main target for any Process Hazard Analysis to keep the industrial pant safe to operate, and protect people and society from hazardous industrial chemical releases, in order to attain this, continuous monitoring with vigilant actions is mandated thereafter. As a LOPA, gas detection plays a vital role as a protection layer, proper design of gas detection is obligatory for a safe operating plant, but how can you meet the following: 1. LOPA studies, with defined targets 2. HAZOP SILs targets 3. Selecting the right technology Key factors: · Gas mapping · Potential leaking sources · Cost-effectiveness · Reliability & Maintainability · Regulatory Compliance · Challenges Alternative technologies in the market · Gas Detection Camera · Drones You can’t control what you can’t monitor, hence the reliability of area coverage detection is the key factor for a safe operating plant.

Hamad AlOthman (Author/Presenter)

Lead Analyzer Engineer

Al Jubail Petrochemical Company (KEMYA)

Hamad Al-Othman is a Lead Process Analyzer Engineer with 20 years of total experience in the Automation, Instrumentation & Analyzer field. He is a certified project management professional engineer who contributed to 3 Mega Projects in the Aramco Refinery ULSD project, Re-instrumentation I & II Mega Projects & SABIC- Elastomers Mega Project. He is a certified Reliability Engineer & involved in the associated project's technical support, improving asset reliability post-project start-ups till full optimizations. He has an extensive contribution to KEMYA assets improvements & supporting SABIC in best practices sharing & developments. He is involved globally with Exxon, SABIC and in multiple Technical Exchange Meetings. He has a Bachelor's degree in Instrumentation & Control with 2nd honor & has a post-graduation certificate in AIML.

Process Hazards Analysis (PHA) is a well-understood necessity for understanding the hazards posed by plants and ensuring the appropriate degree of safeguards are available to ensure that risk is tolerable. PHA started in the 1970s and is now ubiquitous. Documentation of PHA started with pencil and paper worksheets, but quickly moved to desktop PC programs. Unfortunately, there has not been much progress since that time. The current state of PHA documentation is a collection of desktop computer files that are distributed on multiple file servers and laptops of employees, contractors, and vendors. The files are usually inconsistent with each other because each facilitator or each company site utilizes different file structures and different nomenclature, making a comparison of documents, benchmarking, and dashboarding impossible. Also, the fact that so many documents have been generated with no mechanism to export data leaves customers locked into obsolete software that has continually increased maintenance costs along with decreases and flexibility in terms of service. Attempts to improve the situation using large central database systems have also failed due to these systems being slow, inflexible, and lacking the ability to perform remote work where internet access is not available. This presentation discusses how to improve PHA quality while reducing effort and cost by changing and standardizing the technology that underpins how PHA data is stored and accessed. Instead of proprietary desktop formats or heavy, monolithic SQL databases, the modern language of the internet can be used to store, move, and manipulate data. By defining and standardizing a data “schema” in the internet standard JavaScript Object Notation (“JSON”) format, data can be effortlessly shared among multiple different applications and multiple files can be “rolled up” for dashboarding and comparison of data. All this can be done without sacrificing the ability to work offline and remotely and then synchronize with the overall database. Sophisticated cloud-based tools can then be developed which will allow for the use of templates and libraries to ensure the highest quality standardized analysis for consistent results while providing a global enterprise platform that not only makes data accessible but also secure.

Edward Marszal (Author/Presenter)

President and CEO

Kenexis

Edward Marszal is an ISA84 Expert and the President and CEO of Kenexis. Edward has over twenty years of experience in risk analysis and the design and implementation of engineered safeguards, such as safety instrumented systems, relief systems, alarm systems, and fire and gas systems for the oil & gas industry globally.

Edward began his career with UOP, a licensor of process units to the petroleum and petrochemical industries, where he performed field verification of control and safety instrumented systems at customer sites, and designed and managed the development of custom control and SIS projects. After leaving UOP, Mr. Marszal led a number of risk analysis / engineered safeguard consulting teams culminating in the establishment of Kenexis. Edward is committed to providing education on chemical process loss prevention. He is a prolific teacher, author, and lecturer.

Edward is a Senior Member of the ISA and serves on the SP84, SP18, and SP91 committees. Edward is a past Director of the ISA Safety & Security Division. Also he's a senior Member of the AIChE and a guest alumni lecturer at The Ohio State University.
Edward holds a B.S., in Chemical Engineering from The Ohio State University. He is a 1992 Registered Professional Engineer (Control Systems), in the State of Illinois, and the State of Ohio. Ed is a Certified Functional Safety Expert, TÜV, and an ISA84 Expert.