Chemical processing data to make smarter, faster decisions
Understand and evaluate the data behind your potentially hazardous materials, without delay.
Integrating chemical reaction hazard data into your process project shouldn’t be difficult. We understand that waiting weeks to receive a quote and then even longer lead times for your results isn’t sustainable for you, your project or your business.
Sigma-HSE’s CPE laboratory provides actionable test data within weeks, not months. Allowing you to focus on what really matters.
Accelerate your journey from laboratory-scale synthesis to large-scale production
Build your chemical process flows from inception and utilise our thermal screening tools at any point during the exploration of your synthetic routes.
- Screen: from product identification through to route optimisation, understand and screen for highly energetic materials, decomposition limits, and pressure generation.
- Guide: receive and implement preliminary data collected during the screening stage to guide your teams in their process development journey.
- Optimise: integrate reaction calorimetry data with low-phi factor adiabatic calorimetry information to provide data sets that are representative of your process at scale. Gather detailed enthalpic information to gain insight into optimisation opportunities.
For any product or process journey, Sigma-HSE can develop a supporting Chemical Process Evaluation (CPE) testing strategy.
Design and maintain safe processes with reproducible datasets, tailored to you
Utilise time, temperature, pressure, concentration, and explosive data to design, build and implement plant, process, and transport control parameters.
- Verify: identify and verify questionable data, literature calculations, and materials that may have evolved due to manufacturing changes in plant design, raw material grade or supplier changes.
- Control & Calibrate: use appropriate data, adequate control alarms and instrumentation to detect the early signs of onset of thermal runaway, and ensure your process control systems have been calibrated and maintained to deal with this scenario.
- Create: bespoke testing packages from our suite of chemical reaction hazard testing methods to suite your project goals, with the ability to extend beyond basic thermal stability analysis and offer insight into reagent accumulation, gas flow, time-to-maximum rate, and vent-sizing data.
Sigma-HSE can provide CPE data to a support the safe design and maintenance of your chemical processes.
Improve your Management of Change systems with validated data
Systematically implement and manage organisational and process change throughout your operations.
- Assess: understand your operating envelope, P&IDs and equipment specifications so you can properly assess whether your proposed change management is acceptable, or an increasing risk factor.
- Modify: guarantee that your valid data supports formal process modifications. Change, no matter how minor can lead to undesired events.
- Execute: valid and tailored testing data of your chemical process provides the best foundation on which to execute risk assessments, appropriate staff training or QA/QC documentation practices.
Sigma-HSE can support your change management processes by providing and validating your chemical processes and organisational change strategy.
Chemical Process Evaluation Tests
Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)
Accelerating Rate Calorimetry (ARC)
Reaction Calorimetry (RC)
Carius Tube
Advanced Reactive System Screening Tool (ARSST)
Vent Sizing Package 2 (VSP2)
Fast, reliable, reproducible Chemical Process Evaluation data you can count on
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