Case Histories of Process Plant Disasters

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tuan
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Case Histories of Process Plant Disasters

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Recommend some of the good books /resources to study and share the case histories of process plant disasters during safety meetings.
mechcolor
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Check out the attachment, may help you.
A compilation of process safety incidents which were case studied with some useful details.
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tuan
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Thank you for this.
Any book recommendation would help.
mechcolor wrote: 14 Jun 2025, 15:24 Check out the attachment, may help you.
A compilation of process safety incidents which were case studied with some useful details.
novice123
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"What Went Wrong?: Case Histories of Process Plant Disasters and How They Could Have Been Avoided" by Trevor Kletz
tuan
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One of the best.
And then, Still Going Wrong.
What a contribution made.
novice123 wrote: 17 Jun 2025, 15:15 "What Went Wrong?: Case Histories of Process Plant Disasters and How They Could Have Been Avoided" by Trevor Kletz
ivani1
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Re: Case Histories of Process Plant Disasters

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Thanks for sharing this.
Many useful learnings.

Going through the incident happened at Kuraray during 2018.
And thinking about the open discharge of emergency relief systems...
Kuraray America Incident -.jpg
mechcolor wrote: 14 Jun 2025, 15:24 Check out the attachment, may help you.
A compilation of process safety incidents which were case studied with some useful details.
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ivani1
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5 minutes short video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dlP8xgU1T8
ivani1 wrote: 01 Jul 2025, 14:38 Thanks for sharing this.
Many useful learnings.

Going through the incident happened at Kuraray during 2018.
And thinking about the open discharge of emergency relief systems...

Kuraray America Incident -.jpg
mechcolor wrote: 14 Jun 2025, 15:24 Check out the attachment, may help you.
A compilation of process safety incidents which were case studied with some useful details.
mechcolor
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Some process inputs needed on relief system venting directly to the atmosphere and that too horizontally.
ivani1 wrote: 01 Jul 2025, 14:38 Thanks for sharing this.
Many useful learnings.

Going through the incident happened at Kuraray during 2018.
And thinking about the open discharge of emergency relief systems...

Kuraray America Incident -.jpg
mechcolor wrote: 14 Jun 2025, 15:24 Check out the attachment, may help you.
A compilation of process safety incidents which were case studied with some useful details.
ivani1
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Area of interest: Mechanical Engineering

Re: Case Histories of Process Plant Disasters

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Sincere thanks to @tuan creating this post and then to @mechcolor for the calendar.
Next is th eincident happened in Shell, Netherlands. A bunch of learning from there as well.
Alarm management being the key here if someone asks me and then the bypassing of safety critical trips, which should not be done while performing some planned preventive maintenance activities. Another pointer for me was the adequate manning.
Shell_Netherlands_.jpg
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