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Storage and transport of chemicals and other hazardous materials can inevitably carry potential risks. Moreover, history has shown that any accident can not only have economic impacts, but also irreparable consequences on human lives and the natural world. Mitigating such risks through rigorous safety management whilst simultaneously ensuring efficiency and availability is a major challenge for today’s worldwide chemical industry.
Key facts
1,500
hazardous transport operations/year
avoided, by using our expertise and portfolio reduces risk significantly and creates a major contribution to safety.
Process overview
What you can do
Click through these process maps and learn in detail how you can increase safety for chemical containers in storage areas.
Insights
Tank level measurement
Overfilling a tank can not only prove costly, it can compromise trust and reputation. Accurate control of tank levels is vital, and yet requires highly sophisticated measuring technologies.
Our expertise in the field
Designed for accurate and reliable level control, our measurement portfolio enables complete control of hazardous substances and reduces risk of spillage:
- Prevent overfill and ensure accurate fluid-level measurement with the
Insights
Tank overfill protection
A faulty level gauge can fail to alert storage depot operators when a storage tank fills to a dangerously high level. An independent, automated overfill prevention system can reliably detect, indicate and prevent hazardous overflow of chemical or petrochemical storage systems.
Our expertise in the field
Endress+Hauser offers intelligent and reliable systems for the monitoring of storage tanks and containers:
- Save time with safe, simultaneous filling operations for multiple tanks
- Increase tank capacity with reduced reaction times to shutdown
- Reduce time and effort required for simultaneous fills using remote automated proof testing (16 tanks in less than 5 minutes)
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Loading and unloading
The loading and unloading of petroleum, methanol and other hazardous materials is a complex and potentially dangerous operation, presenting fire and explosion risks in the immediate area.
Our expertise in the field
Our Coriolis measurement principle enables the safe loading of hazardous materials, providing more accurate and safer measurement when compared to volume flowmeters.
- Guarantee compliance with legislation on trading transactions using our loading metering skids (LMS), designed and certified by the Measurement Instrument Directive (MID)
- Reduce billing errors with high-performance Coriolis Promass meters
- Lower pressure loss than with volume flowmeters
Benefits
Plant safety and productivity are critical topics that require a partner you can trust; one not interested in short-term profits but in developing sustainable relationships. With our 60+ years of experience, including a long history of industry firsts, we have grown with your sector. Our instruments and solutions are developed according to relevant safety standards, ensuring safe storage and transport of chemicals.
Key facts
17+ years
of functional safety standard IEC 61508 (quality, safety and reliability) applied.
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>90%
of your time saved when proof testing the safety instrumented system with an automated overfill prevention system. Considering 4 hrs per tank using the conventional way.
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>4.8 Mio.
Vibronic point level switches installed in liquids world wide.
Takeaway
How we can help
From processing to storage of hazardous substances, the comprehensive Endress+Hauser portfolio will support you at every stage in the safety loop system in overcoming the dichotomy between plant efficiency and human and environmental safety.
- Certified safety engineers and management systems
- Conformant to internationally recognized standards and recommendations: NAMUR, WHG, IP, ASME, NACE, API, IEC 17025, MID, OIML
- Internationally accepted Hazardous Area approvals: ATEX, IECEx, FM/CSA, NEPSI, TIIS, INMETRO
- State-of-the-art technology featuring functional safety according to IEC 61508 (up to SIL 3)
- Uniform operating safety by design concepts for simple and safe operations
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