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Our services comprise
- fire and explosion protection laboratory testing,
- determination of safety indicators of hazardous materials,
- risk analysis and assessment of the consequences of incidents,
- fluid dynamics and heat engineering computations with modern simulation software,
- courses, seminars and advanced trainings.
Fire and explosion protection laboratory testing
The hazard potential inherent to a substance or mixture is characterised by its properties, by experience or by risk analysis. However it is often not possible to determine sufficiently accurately if the potential comes into effect under the predominant process and storage conditions. The consequence of this lack of knowledge can on the one hand be unnecessarily high costs by overly conservative interpretation and on the other hand enormous damage by underestimation of the hazard. Safety indicators are available from literature, e.g. minimum ignition temperature of a substance, decomposition temperature, maximum explosion pressure etc. However, the experimental conditions at which these safety indicators are usually tested like pressure, temperature, humidity or concentration mostly differ from the real-life process or storage conditions. Hence, the testing conditions have to be adapted to the real process conditions.
We offer the experimental testing of
- minimum ignition temperatures of gases, vapours, dusts (dust layer and dust cloud) and hybrid mixtures,
- explosion pressure and rate of pressure rise
- flash point of flammable liquids,
- explosion limits.
Risk analysis and consequence assessment
In a risk analysis installations and processes are usually split into manageable parts Each separate unit is systematically analysed by an expert team. By this possible sources of malfunctions are identified and their consequences are assessed. Further effective countermeasures can be proposed. Quantitative and qualitative methods of risk analysis can be applied.
We offer complete risk studies including detailed documentation, e.g.
- Hazard and operability (HAZOP) studies
- Layer of protection analysis (LOPA)
- Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA) studies
Fluid dynamics and heat engineering simulations
Our services comprise computational fluid dynamics and heat engineering simulations with advanced software tools. We focus on
- optimisation of processes and reaction output,
- optimum design of safety-related installations, e.g. relief valves, explosion venting devices etc.
Courses, seminars and training
Besides our laboratory and simulation services we offer a comprehensive training in the various fields of our activities.