EPSC 2018 award honours process safety designer

Each year the EPSC (European Process Safety Centre) awards a prize to an individual, team or organization working in the process safety field for making an exceptional contribution to the advancement of process safety.

This year the 2018 EPSC Process Safety Award was presented during ACHEMA to Dr. Hans-Peter Schildberg of BASF SE, for his outstanding work on detonation resistant process design. (Schildberg is shown right, above receiving the award from Piet Knijff, chair of the EPSC Board.)

Click or tap to see his presentation given at ACHEMA on Gas Phase Detonations: Effective Pressures Acting on the Walls of the Enclosures and Probability of Deflagration-to-Detonation Transition in Pipes, Vessels and Packings.