Pilot Plants

Palluzi, Richard P.

doi:10.1002/14356007.c19_c01

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“…Thus, if the doors are opened too far, the total exhaust will not drop and no alarm will sound, but the face velocity will decrease and personnel may be at risk. See Figures and as well as refs − .…”

Section: Hood Doors Opened Past Their Design Limitsmentioning

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The Ten Most Common Laboratory Safety Issues

Palluzi¹

2021

ACS Chem. Health Saf.

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Section: Hood Doors Opened Past Their Design Limitsmentioning

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“…Using ventilation on these cabinets to reduce odors may be desirable, but unless it is done very carefully, and hence more expensively, it can compromise safety. For more information on this topic, see refs − .…”

Section: Ventilating Flammable Storage Cabinetsmentioning

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The Ten Most Common Laboratory Safety Issues

Palluzi¹

2021

ACS Chem. Health Saf.

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“…For free-standing pilot plants (i.e., those out on the laboratory floor versus inside a hood or ventilated enclosure), putting them in a separate area adjacent to the laboratory but separated by a fire wall may be a safer long-term solution. For pilot plants installed in large custom ventilated enclosures, careful attention needs to be paid to the ventilation design as these type of enclosures often perform much less effectively then envisioned. , …”

Section: Area Electrical Classificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some define it in terms of scale and others in terms of purpose . In my view, it is one of those things easy to recognize but difficult to define exactly. For purposes of this Commentary, I will use the NFPA-45 definition, “An experimental assembly of equipment for exploring process variables or for producing semicommercial quantities of materials.” Please see the references for a more detailed discussion …”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Code Considerations for the Design of Laboratories Which Will Also House Pilot Plants

Palluzi¹

2020

ACS Chem. Health Saf.

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With the increased cost of research and the improvements in instrumentation and analytical devices, the size of pilot plants has decreased significantly over the past several decades. The smaller the pilot plant, the less costly it is to construct and operate, and the faster it is to build, start up, and commission reducing the lead time to productive results. It is now common to have pilot plants small enough to fit in a standard laboratory, even in a fume hood. This is desirable as it often reduces staffing requirements, shrinks the building footprint, and reduces facility operating costs. Shared equipment and resources are more feasible. Staffing often is more flexible. Overall, it seems to be a very good idea particularly for a newer organization without the deep pockets to afford a larger and more expensive facility. Placing pilot plants inside a research laboratory, however, creates some issues unfamiliar to many laboratory designers and raises issues that pilot plant designers may not recognize exist. First and foremost is code compliance without which you cannot get a permit to construct the lab. This paper will try and discuss some of the implications of designing a laboratory which will have pilot plants incorporated in its use to meet these code requirements. The paper will try to address the issues that need to be evaluated and addressed in the overall design of the laboratory to ensure that installing pilot plants is done safely and in compliance with the code. While this is very feasible, it does require the laboratory designer to address several aspects of the codes that can significantly affect either the design of the laboratory or how to best design the pilot plants to fit safely into an existing laboratory.

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“…No matter the news feed or conversation thread that you may be following, the conversation has inevitably been associated with how to handle something or get more information in the midst of the response to the various federal, state, local, and institutional requirements. Institutions and businesses have been implementing and modifying various plans, such as the research continuity plan shared by Yale University and a comment by Richard Palluzi, and individual practitioners and researchers have been scrambling to get accurate and up-to-date recommendations.…”

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