Services to identify process safety hazards and facilitate compliance with established standards and codes.

Laboratory testing to quantify dust explosion and reactivity hazards

Laboratory testing to quantify explosion hazards for vapor and gas mixtures

Laboratory testing to quantify reactive chemical hazards, including the possibility of material incompatibility, instability, and runaway chemical reactions

Design emergency pressure relief systems to mitigate the consequences of unwanted chemical reactivity and account for two-phase flow using the right tools and methods

Properly size pressure relief vents to protect your processes from dust, vapor, and gas explosions

Pressure relief sizing is just the first step and it is critical to safety handle the effluent discharge from an overpressure event

Safe storage or processing requires an understanding of the possible hazards associated with sensitivity to variations in temperature

Classification of hazardous materials subject to shipping and storage regulations

Develop critical safety data for inclusion in SDS documents

Model transport of airborne virus aerosols to guide safe operations and ventilation upgrades

Model transport of contamination for source term and leak path factor analysis

Model transport of heat and smoke for fire analysis

transport of flammable or toxic gas during a process upset

Onsite safety studies can help identify explosibility and chemical reaction hazards so that appropriate testing, simulations, or calculations are identified to support safe scale up

Engineering and testing to support safe plant operations and develop solutions to problems in heat transfer, fluid flow, electric power systems

Testing to support safe design of batteries and electrical power backup facilities particularly to satisfy UL9540a ed.4

Testing and consulting on the explosion risks associated with devices and processes which use or produce hydrogen

Safety analysis for packaging, transport, and storage of spent nuclear fuel

Safety analysis to underpin decommissioning process at facilities which have produced or used radioactive nuclear materials

Bespoke testing and modeling services to validate analysis of DD&R processes

Our Nuclear Services Group is recognized for comprehensive evaluations to help commercial nuclear power plants operate efficiently and stay compliant.

Expert analysis of possible risk and consequences from nuclear plant accidents

Testing and analysis to ensure that critical equipment will operate under adverse environmental conditions

Testing and analysis to ensure that critical equipment will operate under adverse environmental conditions

Testing and modeling services to support resolution of emergent safety issues at a power plant

Low thermal inertial adiabatic calorimeters specially designed to provide directly scalable data that are critical to safe process design

Products and equipment for the process safety or process development laboratory

Software for emergency relief system design to ensure safe processing of reactive chemicals, including consideration of two-phase flow and runaway chemical reactions

Facility modeling software mechanistically tracks transport of heat, gasses, vapors, and aerosols for safety analysis of multi-room facilities

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