Hydrogen Safety Webinar
Otto Simon • July 6, 2021
Last week, our Process safety Consultant, Clare Dunkerley, spoke at the IChemE Safety & Loss Prevention Webinar on Hydrogen.
Hydrogen is a key area of growth within the energy industry. This webinar is part of a series which aims to raise awareness, and prompt debate, focusing on process safety management as a key area of concern for all projects, particularly when they are in growth areas and involve new technology and processes.
The discussions in this webinar focussed on industrial application of H2 both today as well as future application and the use of liquid H2 including organic carriers such as ammonia.
Clare co-presented with Dr Andrew Keeley from NSG, and discussed the Industrial Fuel Switching project OSL is developing with NSG as part of the HyNet Project, as well as the HyDeploy project OSL delivered at Keele University. You can read more about these projects on our Project References page.
Clare is a Process Safety Consultant with over 12 years’ experience in Process Safety Consultancy. Clare has worked with clients within the onshore gas, petrochemicals, polymers and energy sectors, as well as offshore oil and gas. She has a background in process design engineering and has specialised knowledge in process control and automation and functional safety. Since joining OSL, Clare has provided compliance support to clients in the Energy sector and Innovation businesses. Clare is an experienced HAZOP and LOPA facilitator, and has experience with quantitative risk assessment techniques, including consequence analysis and Fault Tree Analysis.
The webinar was recorded and can be viewed on the IChemE event archive. (‘Register to attend’ and you’ll be taken to the recording).
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