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The company has ten years providing analysis and assessment of technological risks to multiple industry sectors

TIPs, the necessary technical support for the chemical companies

Drafting QU01/04/2006

TIPs offers a suite of professional services adapted to the most demanding analysis and technological risk assessment demands to the processing industry, the natural gas sector, the energy sector and all kinds of activities that handle chemical substances or dangerous goods,from the phase of environmental IPPC handling the project up to the stage in March, deposed when they should be available and implemented the SEVESO and ATEX documents.

Juan a. Vílchez, Dr. engineer Industrial Director of procedures, reports and projects, S.L. (S.L. TIPs)

TIPs operates from Barcelona (Head Office, with own corporate building) for all Spain, with a staff of 19 people (2 doctors engineers, 12 graduates, two technical engineers, 2 FP and 1 Assistant). For reasons of market and professional requirements (strong presence in the region of Murcia, providing services to chemical, energy companies and refining), TIPs also has own and fully equipped office in Murcia city, served by 3 graduates.

A typical activity of consulting is related to the preparation of all documentation required by the legislation on major accidents SEVESO II and its adaptations, which involves the preparation of the following documents in the case of higher demand:

Notification
WOULD (basic information)
Analysis of risk (AR)
Plan of self-protection (PAU), also known as Plan of internal emergency (PEI)
Security policy of serious accidents (PPAG) and system of management of safety (SGS)
Quantitative analysis of risks (ACR).

The development of the activity of consulting SEVESO, TIPs provides the most effective tools and to ensure the identification of hazards, the calculation of impact and the quantification of risks (PHA-Works, EFFECTS, and RISK-CUR-VES), all essential éllas to meet the demands of evaluation and control imposed by the legislation in force.

Curves for individual risk which should include an ACR. A 10-6, according to the case value, usually performed with threshold of reference for the establishment of policies of acceptability of risk. The concrete interpretation depends on the criteria used by each autonomous community.

Another strategic sector in activities TIPs is the natural gas sector. TIPs is involved in the main of regasification of country projects and industrial projects directly associated with the infrastructure (pipelines, satellite plants, road transport, parking lots of tanks, stations of measurement and measuring ERM design, etc.). This sector requires a highly specialized, because that calculation models commonly used for flammable liquids are not suitable for the simulation of consequences, because of the dry ice condition of natural gas in many parts of the process and its transport. The high power outbound from the flames in case of fire for spill (far above the usual values found in hydrocarbons), their behavior as gas heavy leakage at low temperature and the changing conditions of issuance, make that the modelling should be carried out in transitional period and with specific consideration of the geometry of the event (circular, rectangular, in basin, rafting, high, etc.).

General outline of all the documents that can be generated in a file SEVESO II.

Other consultancy activities representative of the mode of operation TIPs and undergoing expansion, is related to the preparation of the document of explosion protection required by the RD 681/2003 (with ATEX rules). Many industries have only the document's classification of areas, without realizing that we need a very specific evaluation of the risk associated with all exhaust sources identified in this document and we should verify compliance with the annexes of the aforementioned Royal Decree, certain provisions referenced in the same (especially RD 1215 / 1997).

Flammable plume generated by the unloading of a safety valve in a cross wind field. This type of calculations, where the TIPs is specialist, identifies potential ignition points in the history of the plume. They may be required in an AR.

For the rest of consultancy services listed in the table attached summary (industrial safety, plans of self-protection, contingency plans and contingency plans, as well as environmental consultancy), the technical team of TIPs provides the industrial:

Experience in the approach to the solution of consulting pèrmita to get the best route of administration or technical processing of the industrial project.
Solid technical training, maximum training and total availability to share the problems of the company in the development of the work.
Software tools of first level when you require quantification of parameters (probabilistic, of vulnerability, environmental or technical).
Direct contact with the competent authorities or bodies of control when the documents is subject to processing of official registration or project management.

The main quality of TIPs as a company lies in the willingness to adapt to the particular needs of each client, providing the support necessary and continuous technician that is required to solve the problems that today there is chemical industry, with quality of service and obtaining the best results.

Serious accidents:

Complete technical assistance in the preparation and processing of the documents required by the existing legislation on major accidents SEVESO II and later adaptations (948/2005 RD, RD 1196 / 2003 and RD 1254 / 1999).
Application of techniques: HAZOP, SIL, 'what-if', FMEA, ACR, fault trees, trees of events, historical analysis and risk indices.
Implementation of all the generated documentation (System Management, interventional procedures, drills).

The natural gas sector:

Studies of implementation on the application of the standards UNE in 1473, NFPA 59 A and AP15.
Records of risk analysis for all types of facilities and activities (berths of LNG regasification plants, torches, vents, rafts of collection, pipelines, distribution networks, transport cryogenic tanks, satellite plants, compressor stations, stations of MRE measurement and regulation).
Rigorous modelling of accidental leakage of gas, with results validated in field: evaporation, fires, Tufts, flammable dispersion of heavy gas, thermal radiation of torch.

Industrial safety:

Elaboration of studies classified areas and full-text documents of protection against explosions, in application of the regulations of ATEX (RD 681/2003)
Rigorous simulation of explosive atmospheres and ventilation using CFD modeling systems
Technical reports of risk analysis for facilities not SEVESO
Industrial legalizations. Specialists in APQ.

Self protection plans, contingency plans and contingency plans for: