NIOSH Supply Chain Project: Chemical Plant Upgrade – Industrial Accelerated

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• Corporate Authors:
  Virginia Tech. Center for Innovation in Construction Safety, Health, and Well-being
• Description:
  Overview: The project involved in this case study was the installation of a hot oil economizer onto a unit in a chemical plant to improve the plant's operational efficiency. Context: The owner of the chemical plant decided to install an economizer on one of the plant's units to increase operating efficiency. The plant would have to be shut down in order to tie-in the new economizer. One of the biggest problems that the project team faced was carrying out the installation as quickly as possible to minimize the plant's downtime. The plant loses a considerable amount of money each time it is shut down. This meant that the team had to plan the project schedule well in advance. Objectives: The economizer installation was coordinated to take place during the plant's turnaround period, which is a period once every 3 to 5 years where the plant goes offline for 20 days so that workers can perform inspections, preventative maintenance, and cleaning. Since the plant is already shut off during this time, any impact the construction would have on the plant's daily operations was minimal. Much of the construction was pre-fabricated in advance in order to save time during the turnaround. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Case Reports Construction Industry Engineering Hazardous Substances Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Case Studies Construction Industry Engineering Controls Hazard Controls Industrial Design
• Publisher:
  Innovation Center for Construction Safety and Health at Virginia Tech
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Case Studies
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-15
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20062017
• Citation:
  Blacksburg, VA: Innovation Center for Construction Safety and Health at Virginia Tech, 2015 May; :1-15
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• Performing Organization:
  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20090901
• Source Full Name:
  NIOSH supply chain project: chemical plant upgrade - industrial accelerated
• End Date:
  20150131
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:6435cd2467afd0e9de6346c735933430432d4bd78a127e64e4e6a90ab92e36b6797f671ccd4ef2bead16d0e1b60e452ab5e23101cd1980a533d75ee75263d652
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/225343/cdc_225343_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 327.43 KB ]