Carbon Dioxide (CO₂) Safety

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  Course Summary

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  CO2 safety training is a specialised program designed to educate individuals who work with or around carbon dioxide (CO2) on the proper handling, storage, and emergency procedures related to this gas. The training covers the following key areas:

  Properties, common uses, health hazards, safety measures, emergency procedures, regulatory compliance and handling/storage.
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  Course Objectives

  •    Understand the physical and hazardous properties of carbon dioxide.  
  •    Review carbon dioxide sources and environmental impact.  
  •    Review carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) including capture technologies, separation processes, storage and transportation.  
  •    Recognise and understand the physiological effects of carbon dioxide exposure.  
  •    Understand the hazards associated with every stage of the CCUS process. 
  •    Review process safety incidents involving carbon dioxide and the learnings that have been derived from past accidents.  
  •    Develop an awareness of the life cycle of process safety, from concept development to project execution. 
  •    Awareness of relevant regulations, and the regulatory expectations. 
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  Course Outline

  ·    Introduction: why CO2 safety training.
  ·    Physical and chemical properties of CO2 (gaseous, liquid and solid).
  ·    Introduction to CCUS: capture and separation technologies.
  ·    Effects of CO2 on materials used in CCUS including CO2 pipeline corrosion.
  ·    Introduction to consequence modelling of CO2 releases
  ·    Physiological effects of exposure to CO2
  ·    Hazards associated with the different stages of CCUS.
  ·    Examples of CO2 release control and mitigation methods and inherent safety.
  ·    Review process safety incidents involving carbon dioxide and the learnings that have been derived from past accidents.
  ·    General overview of risk assessment.
  ·    Awareness of the life cycle of process safety, from concept development to project execution. Overview of the types of study that should be considered.
  ·    Regulations, codes and standards applicable to CO2 projects and the regulatory expectations
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  Target Group

  Process engineers, process safety engineers, HSE professionals, project engineers, plant managers and others involved in the design, operation, modification or maintenance of carbon dioxide equipment and processes. 
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  Prerequisites

  In general, no special prerequisites are required. However, knowledge in process safety and experience in plant operation will be helpful.
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