A company wanted to develop a book that would have the chemical properties and handling requirements for over 5,000 chemicals. Much of this data had to be searched and extracted from pubic sources. The data was in varying formats and quality. I wrote extraction routines to extract the data. Once the data was extracted, it had to be verified and transferred to a database. I created a database to compile the data from all the sources, which allowed the tracking of missing data.
Category: Process Safety
Pressure Relief Valve
An equipment manufacturing company was designing a high-pressure gas test facility in an area that had noise sensitivity issues. This test facility required air pressure relief valves to protect the equipment. Due to the high pressure of the system the calculated relief velocities exceeded the sound barrier and therefore had to be sent through a silencer that did not impede the flow of the relief stream. Calculations were performed that met both the relief requirements and the noise requirements.