September 2017
Environment and Safety
Safety in design during I&C engineering
After process engineers complete their preliminary documents—process flow diagrams; material and energy balances; piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs); process control philosophy; identification of the hazardous nature of raw materials, chemicals, byproducts and final products; process equipment layout drawings (plan and elevation); and unit plot plans—those documents are issued to engineers of other disciplines.
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.
Sunil P. Agarwal is Senior General Manager (Instrumentation and Controls) at Tata Consulting Engineers Ltd. (TCE) in Mumbai, India. Sunil holds a BEng degree in electronics engineering from Amravati in Maharashtra, India. He has 30 yr of experience, and has been with TCE for more than 25 yr. He has worked in various capacities, including project engineer, specialist engineer, project manager and discipline head (Instrumentation and controls). He has extensive experience in basic and detailed design engineering, operation and maintenance of various oil and gas, petrochemicals, infrastructure, industrial and other chemicals projects. His areas of interest include safety studies, safety integrated systems and basic engineering.
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