Dr. Dirk Schmidt (left) and Stefan Seifert at the inspection route for flame arrestors in gas pipelines.
Source: BAM
Process plants are characterized by a high degree of complexity and a considerable risk potential. Process and plant safety offers solutions for the safe, efficient, and economical operation of such production plants. Plant safety essentially depends on the four areas of material properties, process design, plant design and organizational implementation, whereby the various underlying parameters influence each other. A holistic and systematic approach, as pursued at BAM, is therefore necessary for the safe and efficient operation of a process plant.
One focus of our work in the area of plant safety is on numerical and experimental investigations (up to large technical scale) to derive safety concepts and measures. In addition, we evaluate the effects of material and energy releases such as explosions and fires.
Process simulation plays a particularly important role in the development and optimization of process engineering systems. With the help of dynamic simulation, strategies can be developed to increase the safety of the system and at the same time increase sustainability and efficiency.