1. Proactive Asset
Management
Process flow to avoid facility liabilities
Mark J. Sydlowski
Director of Cylinder Remediation
& Asset Management Services
SET Environmental, Inc.
508-789-3798

2. Facility Liabilities -Cylinders
Unknown Cylinders
Non-DOT shippable cylinders
Excessive Idle Inventory

3. Unknown Gas Cylinders
 Unknown gas cylinders with no indicators
 Lecture Bottles / 110 valves, rust, no markings or labels
 Unknown gas cylinders with indicators
 Cylinders with various identifiable CGA valves
 Cylinders with identifiable PRD’s
 Cylinders with a DOT label on the shoulder
 Cylinders with other indicators, stenciling.

4. Unknown Cylinder Liabilities
 Is it an inert gas or a Zone A toxic
 If known, can we have it on the property?
 If known, does it comply with our permit?
 Identifying the gas requires analytical.
 Can we perform analytical on site?
 Unknowns are monetarily costly.
 Unknowns can be permit costly.

5. Non-DOT Cylinders
Valve Corrosion
Dents, evidence of fire or heat damage
Cylinders used incorrectly (drug lab)
Cylinders without DOT or ICC stamping
Cylinders with valves that do not meet
DOT Specification (old Zone A gases)
Cylinders not meeting DOT specifications
for transportation in commerce

6. Managing Non-DOT Cylinders
 Require salvage vessels to be moved, or they
need to be managed on site such as acetylene.
 High pressure gases in high pressure vessels
 Low pressure gases in any salvage vessel
 Lecture Bottles can be shipped in Lecture Packs
 Each scenario above has an added cost
 Each scenario represents a facility liability.

7. Salvage Vessel Example

8. Non-DOT Transportable Cylinders

9. Excessive Idle Inventory
 Accumulation of returns that can be drained
using on-site equipment.
 Accumulation of returns that can not be drained
on site.
 Inventories that can not be sold.
 Cylinders where packaging specifications have
changed.
 Cylinders that have inoperable valves.
 Cylinders with gases that can create a hazard
over time (Hydrogen Fluoride / Hydrogen Bromide)

10. An Asset Should not remain Idle
Idle assets can:
 Accumulate quickly.
 Become unnoticed in the facility.
 Start to physically deteriorate.
 Start to have labels and markings fade.
 Develop slow leaks without being noticed.
 Start to rust which can deteriorate markings.

11. Proactive Asset Management
An asset should:
 Not remain idle.
 Have a direction
 Have a timeline to its destiny
 Be of known contents
 Have a future status
 Not be allowed to accumulate.

12. Customer Returns
Client Returns
(route immediately)
Drain using internal
capabilities
Drain using future
Internal
capabilities
Drain using external
remediation
contractors
Monthly, Quarterly
or bi-annually?
Asset to be returned?
Asset to be scrapped?
When will internal
Capabilities be
implemented
Date set for internal
Draining?
Asset to be scrapped?
Asset to be re-used?

13. Existing On-Site Inventory
Idle
On-Site Inventory
Does it require
Draining?
Can it be sold or
Recycled?
Is it off spec or in a
package no longer
usable?
Can it be transferred
to a usable package?
If it can, when can
that step be taken?
If yes, internally or
Externally?
Asset to be scrapped?
Asset to be re-used?

14. Points to consider
Client returns need a defined route
Idle assets on site need to be defined
Idle assets need to be a priority
Timelines should be set for all activity
Being Pro-Active will:
Allow one to know what is “actually on site”
reducing the chance for on site liabilities.

15. An Idle Asset is a Liability
It is not generating revenue
It could become an unknown
It could become non-DOT
It could leak
It needs Proactive Direction to minimize
its negative potential.