February 2018
Environment and Safety
Safety in design during piping engineering
A process engineer must complete the preliminary preparations of process flow diagrams, material and energy balances, piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs), process control philosophy, and identification of the hazardous nature of raw materials, chemicals, byproducts and final products.
The Authors
Vasant A. Kunte is senior general manager (chemical) at Tata Consulting Engineers Ltd. (TCE) in Mumbai, India. Mr. Vasant holds an MTech degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Mumbai. He has been with TCE for over 35 years, and has worked as a project engineer, specialist engineer, project manager, HAZOP study team leader, discipline head (chemical), quality coordinator and training manager. He has extensive experience in basic and detailed engineering of various refinery, petrochemicals and chemical projects. He has received training in conducting and leading HAZOP studies in a “HAZOP Study Leader’s Course” conducted by ICI UK and ICI India, and has led many HAZOP studies for more than 23 years in India and other countries. His areas of interest are safety and risk management, HAZID, HAZOP, SIL, QRA and other safety-related topics.
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