Ensuring Thermal Process Safety in Chemical Manufacturing
In my industrial career as a PhD organic/organometallic chemist I was kept busy for about 10 years with in-house Reaction Calorimetry (RC), Accelerating Rate Calorimetry (ARC), Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) as well as Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA) for validating thermal process safety. To institutionalize this I was asked to start a process safety department and began standardizing experimental protocols and a database for the results. I was able to scour the internet for thermochemical papers...