CSE-Engineering Center of Safety Excellence GmbH

2023 Joint US and European DiERS User Group Conference

September 4 – 7, 2023, Braunschweig, Germany

Programme

Preliminary version, status: 08/28/2023

Conference Venue: Steigenberger Parkhotel, Nimes-Straße 2, D-38100 Braunschweig, Germany

Monday, September 4, 2023

08:00

Registration

Session I

Welcome

08:30

Welcome to Joint DIERS User Group Meeting

Georges Melhem, ioMOSAIC
Jürgen Schmidt, CSE Center of Safety Excellence

08:45

Introducing Braunschschweiger Flammenfilter & PROTEGO

Michael Davies, Braunschweiger Flammenfilter

Session II

Low-Pressure Vents & Flame Arresters

09:00

Experimental Investigation and CFD Modelling of Storage Tank Breathing

Natalie Schmidt, CSE Center of Safety Excellence

09:45

DIERS Guideline on Flame Arrester

Davide Moncalvo, Braunschweiger Flammenfilter

10:30

Coffee Break

11:00

A new Approach based on the Safety Life Cycle Analysis to increase the Reliability of Pressure-Vacuum Valves

Josep Basco, Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

11:45

Mechanical failure during PSV release in relation to auto-refrigeration and chattering

Tijs Koerts, EPSC

12:30

Lunch

Session III

Risk Management | Reaction Calorimetry

13:30

Latent Heat Considerations for Pressure Relief Design

Georges Melhem, ioMOSAIC

14:15

Reactive Hazards in Biomass Processing

Carine Huizenga, Shell Global Solution International B.V.

15:00

Coffee Break

15:30

ARC Study of an Exothermic Decomposition in an MSA-mediated Fluorination Reaction

Brittany Armstrong, Merck

16:00

Low Vapor Pressure Chemicals – Trying to avoid Runaways

Jerome Ferreira, DuPont Speciality Products

16:30

Limitations of Stossel Classification Method as a Reactivity Hazard Assessment Standard of Chemical Plants

Min Sheng, East China University

17:00

End of Meeting

19:15

Meeting point: Steigenberger Parkhotel

19:30

Dinner

Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Session IV

Pressure Relief & Sizing

08:30

A Review of Relief Sizing Methodologies for Vapor Breakthrough Scenarios

Dan Wilkes, ioMOSAIC

09:00

SmOP: Intelligent “zero emission” Pressure Relief Device

Carsten Schmidt, CSE Center of Safety Excellence

09:45

Considerations on tank header design to achieve zero emission and stable valve performance

Michael Davies (Speaker), Davide Moncalvo | Braunschweiger Flammenfilter

10:30

Coffee Break

11:00

Effect of Lift Restriction and Multicomponent Flow on PRV Stability

Csaba Hos, Budapest University of Technology and Economics

11:30

Evaluation of one-dimensional models to predict chatter in spring-loaded pressure relief valves for gas service

Gergely Keszthelyi, CSE Center of Safety Excellence

12:00

Lunch

 

Session V

AI Supported Safety | Pressure Relief & Sizing

13:00

Use of Computer Vision Algorithms to automate the early Scoping of new Projects

John Barker, ioMOSAIC

13:45

Automated HAZOPs – State of the Art and future Development?

Jens Denecke, CSE Center of Safety Excellence

14:15

Modelling Battery Energy Storage System Explosions Using Deflagration Dynamics

James Close, ioMOSAIC

15:00

Coffee Break

Session VI

Explosion Prevention & Lessons learnt

15:30

It’s not only the SIZE that matters! – Practical Points to consider when specifying a Rupture Disc

Saskia Schrewe | Corc Bahcecioglu, REMBE® GmbH Safety+Control

16:00

Lessons Learned – Preventing Early Relief in LPG Storage

Brad Luckman (Speaker) PROTEGO UK | Michael Davies Braunschweiger Flammenfilter

16:30

DIERS (US) Round-Robin Testing Update

Benjamin Doup, Fauske & Associates

17:00

End of Meeting

 

Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Session VII

Valve Instability | Pressure Relief & Sizing

09:00

Bridging the 3 % Rule Gap

Georges Melhem, ioMOSAIC

09:45

Of belts and braces (Design of new and existing emergency relief systems)

Ingo Ludwig, REMBE® GmbH Safety+Control

10:30

Coffee Break

11:00

Two dimensional Interpolation of Multiphase Fluid Properties and its Usage in Fluid Flow Analysis

Leonid Korelstein, Maria Skripachenko, PSRE Co

11:45

Live presentation at the courtyard

REMBE® GmbH Safety+Control

12:30

Lunch

 

Session VIII

Pressure Relief & Sizing | Functional Safety

13:30

Pressure Relief Valve Orifice Sizing Using Numerical Integration

Freeman Self, Bechtel Schlumberger

14:00

You have “safeguard(s)” in place; Sounds promising, but have you tested it? Act before it is too late

Harigopal Attal, HariAttal Process Safety

14:30

Coffee Break

15:00

Closing Remarks & Discussion

16:00

End of Meeting

 

Thursday, September 7, 2023

EVENT

Visit at PROTEGO Sites (draft)

07:30

08:00

Bus transfer group1 to PROTEGO Test Center in Lehre

Bus transfer group 2 to PROTEGO to Production Site

08:30

Group 1: Large Scale Explosion Experiments at the Test Center in Lehre
Group 2: Current State of Manufacturing at PROTEGO Production Site

Bus transfers to other locations until 12:30.

10:30

Bus transfers to other locations until 12:30.

13:30

Lunch

14:30

Final Discussion

16:00

Bus transfer back to Steigenberger Parkhotel

16:30

Arrival Steigenberger Parkhotel