Facilities Siting
Predictive Modeling for Safety
In a world of unpredictable risks and hazards, Equity Engineering’s Facility Siting studies are vital in predicting the impact of toxicity, fire, and explosions on facility personnel, buildings, and equipment. Based on API 752 and API 753 standards, our facility siting analysis determine various risk scenarios affecting people, buildings, and equipment in their current location. In addition, these studies assist clients in establishing safe and optimal locations in which to place new process equipment and buildings.
A sensitivity analysis is performed to evaluate and model possible hazard scenarios such as toxic releases, heat radiation, and pressure waves from explosions. This predictive model helps determine the effect different hazards have on nearby occupied buildings (e.g., control rooms, administrative buildings), and process equipment.
Equity’s facility siting analysis provides clients with information that can be used for the following:
- Consequence analysis based upon various accident scenarios affecting facility personnel and equipment
- Safely locating new equipment and buildings, and determining the material of construction
- Determining if current buildings are adequately built to withstand blast waves to protect personnel
- Mapping process areas affected by the hazard, as noted in the consequence analysis
- Reviewing current evacuation and egress procedures
- Checking adequacy of the existing fire protection system, and recommending mitigation, if required
Mr. Andreani performs Fitness-For-Service evaluations, engineering specification and design support, engineering training, and project consulting on a wide variety of refinery and chemical plant equipment. A pressure-containment and structural specialist, Mr. Andreani has worked in various refinery technical service groups providing engineering support to refineries and chemical plants worldwide.
Mr. Johnson is responsible for engineering services in the areas of Pressure Relief engineering, as well as technical and chemical process engineering. He is also proficient in various technical engineering softwares and UCC programs and has performed software implementation for numerous non-US UCC locations in North America. Mr. Johnson is currently assisting E2G with Quality Assurance for a Relief Valve Integrity Program. 
