Running a urea plant involves various potential hazards, from high-pressure equipment and extreme temperatures to corrosive ammonium carbamate.
Even the smallest leak in the high-pressure synthesis section can release toxic ammonia, creating serious risks for people, the plant, and the environment. That’s why strong Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) measures are essential.
With ADVANCE HSE™ Products and Services, Stamicarbon provides practical solutions to make your plant safer, more reliable, and more sustainable, while keeping product quality high and protecting the environment.
Health
- Advance Coat™; Safe, Effective Urea Coating
A urea coating for prills, or pastilles enhances the shelf life and prevents caking, maintains product strength and protects urea from moisture. Our harmless coating can be an excellent replacement for formaldehyde and during handling hardly any dust is produced.
Safety
- Life-Time Assessment (LTA) for High-Pressure Piping
Since regular inspections of high-pressure piping are often neglected, a Life-Time Assessment (LTA) by means of risk-based Inspection (RBI) is essential to help avoid catastrophic failures.
All the components will be ranked criticality from both the process and the atmospheric point of view, using our in-depth knowledge of corrosion and process knowledge in urea plants.
- Urea Design Safety Training
This training helps people to understand our approach to process safety and to broaden the understanding of the typical design solutions to safeguard the most relevant risk scenarios in urea plants. Herewith, we improve your hazard recognition skills and capability of identifying and controlling potential hazards.
- Process Safety Plant Review
We conduct a focused technical review of your plant’s design, comparing it with international engineering standards. We evaluate whether your safety measures meet best-practice requirements using a detailed checklist, on-site verification, and interviews.
- Radar Level Measurement (RMD)
This is a proven and improved substitute for the commonly used radioactive level measurement. The RMD has many advantages compared to radioactive level measurements:
- Accurate measurement (+/- 10mm)
- Made of E-type material
- Absolutely safe in use/handling (no radioactive sources)
- Replacement of the existing radioactive device with a radar is possible
- Leak Detection Monitoring System
To ensure safe operation of lined HP equipment in a urea plant, a reliable leak detection monitor system providing a short response time between the start of a leak and its detection is of the utmost importance. It can be used for both new and existing HP equipment. The benefits are:
- Potential leaks are continuously monitored and leaks activates an alarm in the control room.
- The location of the leak can be identified easily.
- It accurately detects and measures in ppm range.
- E-type Material
E-type material, formerly known as Safurex®, was developed by Stamicarbon and its partner, as a super duplex stainless steel with superior corrosion resistance properties. This material has expanded into a family of long-lasting solutions in not only materials but also products and services. These solutions have optimized urea production and safety because no active corrosion takes place.
- Ammonia Storage Tank Inspections
We are one of few companies who can assist you with ammonia storage tank inspection within a reasonable shutdown time. As an ammonia tank inspection is only required once every 15-20 years, special preparation and expertise is required to provide you with valuable advice based on the results of the inspection report.
We offer the following benefits:
- Total inspection, including de-commissioning and commissioning
- Short shutdown time because there is no need for scaffolding
- Safety Services
HAZOP support (management of change and/or projects), HSE management system assessment (OSHA/PSM) and major incident investigation. In addition to the presented safety services, we have a long experience in the following:
- HAZOP support (management of change and/or projects)
- HSE management system assessment (OSHA/PSM)
- Major incident investigation
Environment
Plant performance assessment
A study on safe working limits of each critical process equipment item and the plant's actual performance related to maximizing efficiency of safety, energy, effluents/emissions, product quality, bottlenecks/capacity.
