1. MCPHAIL SCHOOL OF ENERGY
BACHELOR OF APPLIED PETROLEUM ENGINEERING
A TECHNICAL REPORT
(PRAC 410)
ON
ATMOSPHERIC AIR MONITORING AND COKE BREATHING
HAZARD
PRESENTED BY
Akin Fadare
3. INTRODUCTION
~ Leading Safety Company
~ Safety Job Roles
* Safety Watch
* Area Watch
* Fire Watch
* Spark Watch
* Bottle Watch
* Confined Space Entry Monitor
~ Job Locations
UNITED SAFETY
4. SPACE MONITORING
ATMOSPHERIC
AIR MONITORING
Tubular Management
CONFINED SPACE
ENTRY MONITORING
UNRESTRICTED
SPACE MONITORING
C
AECOM Tubular management
services has tubing and drill
pipe inspection facilities
throughout Western Canada.
Each of our
Examples Of An Unrestricted Space Monitoring
~Area Watch
~Spark Watch
~Fire Watch
5. CONFINED SPACE
A confined space is a restricted space partially or
completely enclosed which may be hazardous to
worker entering it
Common Hazards In A Confined Space
~ Chemical Exposure & Presence of Combustible
~ Radiation Exposure & Extreme Temperature
~ Poor Air Quality
~ Noise, Uncontrolled Energy & Collapse of Material
7. AIR QUALITY TESTING IN CONFINED SPACE
Why most confined spaces have a dangerous atmosphere?
~Lack of oxygen
~Toxic or flammable gases
Common Gases Tested in Confined Space
~ Oxygen
~ Hydrogen Sulphide
~ Carbon Monoxide
~ Lower Explosive Limit (LEL)
9. CONFINED SPACE ATMOSPHERIC AIR QUALITY MONITORS
Multi Gas Clip
~ Use by all workers at all time
~ To test the quality of air in their immediate environment
~ It does not require battery change
~ Bump tested
The VentisMX4The VentisMX4
~ Use for detecting up to four different gases within a one~ Use for detecting up to four different gases within a one
hundred feet rangehundred feet range
~ It has both audio and visual alarm systems~ It has both audio and visual alarm systems
10. DESCRIPTION OF horizon COKER PLANT
~ The CNRL horizon coker plant is 610 feet high
~ Mess Deck, Cutting Deck, Horse Shoe & Switch Deck
~ Maximum capacity of 40 workers at a time
~ Three trains with a pair of fractionating drums each
Causes Of Pollution
~ Cutting/Cracking Operation
~ Venting Operation
~ Gas Flaring Operation
13. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE REFINING PROCESS AT CNRL
COKER PLANT
~ Bitumen mining
~ Bitumen Handling
~ Bitumen Cracking
~ Refining Bye-Product of Bitumen Cracking
Health Hazard Of Breathing Petroleum Coke Particles In Polluted Environment
~ Respiratory & cardiovascular effect in human health
~ Cancer & pulmonary inflammation
14. PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED AT THE COKER PLANT
~ Cutting operations
~ Exhaust fume
~ Wind direction
~ Platforms flooded by exhaust fumes
Health Symptoms Caused By Polluted Environment
~ Persistent Cough
~ Crack Voice
~ Chest Pains
~ Throat Discomfort
~ Feeling Sick & Headache
15. CONCLUSIONS
.
~ Corporations need to continue monitoring their operational activities and
regularly access the consequences of lack or inadequate hazard control measures
on the life & health of the workers
~ Significant attention needs to be given to pollution at the coker plant and its
environs in order to avoid putting the health of the employee working at this site at
risk and to minimize or eliminate completely
16. RECOMMENDATIONS
~ The use of full face mask respirator by the confine space entry monitor and a half
face mask by other safety watch employees regardless of their work location
~ I recommended to the supervisor that the safety crew most especially the CSE
monitor should remain in the trailer until work is about to commence in the plant to
avoid being expose to hazardous atmosphere
~ Whenever a worker is at close proximity to the coker plant while venting and cutting
operations is being carried out, such employee should use his or her personal full face
mask respirator
~ I recommended more hands-on approach with lot of video presentation than just
listening to the instructor and filling the papers which is boring
