What Every Energy Engineer Needs to Know About Liquefied Natural Gas Safety

In What Every Energy Engineer Needs to Know About Liquefied Natural Gas Safety, you'll learn ...

• Basic technical knowledge needed to make informed planning, maintenance, and operating decisions to ensure plant safety and reliability
• Operational hazards associated with storing and transporting LNG
• Vessel purging, LNG stratification and subsequent rollover
• Safety integrated systems and hazard detection systems used in LNG plants

Overview

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Credit: 7 PDH

Length: 100 pages

LNG plants and other petrochemical plants are built to bring a return on investment to their investors through their safe operation. Their designers and engineer-led operators require technical knowledge to ensure that these facilities are safe and reliable. This course gives you that knowledge.

The most well-designed facilities are only as safe and reliable as the human resources that make the decisions on operating these facilities. These human resources require training and technical knowledge on how the safety systems work, to recognize anomalies, how to react to such anomalies, and most importantly, how to prevent such anomalies. Remember the Challenger Space Shuttle – extensive safety systems, but poor operator judgment rendered it a disaster.

A paraphrase of the Chemical Safety Board’s statement is, “if you think safety is expensive, try an accident.” Plant accidents injure or kill plant staff, threaten the public, and ruin the reputation and economic prosperity of the company that owns that plant. Unsafe plants promote fear in the public, resulting in plant shutdowns like the LNG import terminal in Staten Island – that plant was completely built. As the first LNG shipload was en route to the plant, the plant’s operating permit was revoked due to fear of the plant’s safety. The same thing happened to the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant. It was brought up to 5% operating power and then shut down and decommissioned. As a result, the Long Island Lighting Company, Shoreham’s owner, was economically crushed and had to be sold for a fraction of its value.

This course covers LNG safety technologies at both a technical and human resource development level. This training is needed to help you design, operate or maintain an LNG facility; however, many of the specialized materials covered pertain to all petrochemical plants.

This training is intended to present technical materials to help develop a culture of safety and reliability in your thought processes. It is intended to give the learner the basic technical knowledge needed to make informed planning, maintenance, and operating decisions to ensure plant safety and reliability. The most crucial intention of this training is to give you the technical knowledge on how to continue to make the Liquid Natural Gas Industry “Safe and Reliable.”

In the follow-on lessons in separate courses, more detail will be given on the operation of an LNG plant, refrigeration systems for liquefying, and the thermodynamics involved in producing, storing, transporting, and re-vaporizing LNG.

Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• The profound importance of putting safety first when dealing with petrochemicals, particularly LNG
• The characteristics and properties of LNG
• The hazards associated with LNG and natural gas
• The safety measures used in the design and operation of LNG facilities
• The methods of hazard detection
• The methods of preventing hazards from escalating to accidents
• Some of the safety measures and devices needed to manage an LNG facility
• The significant need to train human resources and develop a culture of safety and reliability

Certificate of Completion

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 45 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.