Optimize Your Safety Instrumented System

Before marketing a new chemical, the manufacturer/importer, in order to meet the various national and international legal requirements, has to submit information in the form of a notification or registration (e.g. phys-chem, toxicological, ecotoxicological data) to support each Government’s risk assessment to determine whether the substance poses an unreasonable risk to the environment and/or human health. Some countries require pre-manufacture/import notification while for many jurisdictions, the chemical notification process is a tiered system requiring subsequent notifications as the annual amount of the imported or manufactured substance increases. Further, there are expanding global initiatives to assess chemicals already in the marketplace and subsequently take action on any chemicals found to be harmful to human health and/or the environment.

Learn from our 3 experts about emission sources originating from binder systems in large serial casting productions. Get to know potentials to reduce or even avoid emissions along the process chain by both chemical and technical product solutions.

Optimisation of the development cycle for new products is a challenge in the chemical industry. Steel, which in many ways is analogous to chemicals, is produced using a long chain of interdependent process steps. Consequently, large volumes of experiments are required to fully explore process parameter relations. This is more critical for new, highly differentiated products for which understanding of the underlying physical principles is incomplete and thus a-priori exclusion of factors not possible. In this context, the use of statistical Design of Experiments (DOE) to shorten development timescale, maximize the output of experimental capacity and minimize material consumption is essential.

China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) issued the draft Regulation on Chemical Substance Environmental Risk Assessment and Control on 8 Jan. The new regulation represents a complete overhaul of China’s chemical regulatory framework and will have a huge impact on the industry in terms of their compliance obligations. The deadline for public comment is 20 Feb 2019.