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Papers by Konstantinos Mitropetros

Chemical engineering transactions, 2016

A look on loss statistics of reportable incidents reveals that fire is the most important cause o... more A look on loss statistics of reportable incidents reveals that fire is the most important cause of major losses in the chemical industry. Therefore it pays off to think about how advanced fire precautions may help to minimize the risk of such damages. This is the topic of the ProcessNet working group “Fire Protection in the Chemical Industry”. Experts from different chemical companies, consultant agencies, insurers and universities, who may contribute to the subject of fire precautions, cooperate and exchange experiences. It aims to establish a still more efficient risk fire management at chemical plants. Important working areas are: knowledge transfer between process safety and fire protection, evaluation and assessing the application of new technologies and learning from experiences. One risk management methodology for the prevention of fire incidents describing protection measures in dependency of combustible components and of financial and social interests is described.

Chemical engineering transactions, 2016

The value of learning from process safety accidents and incidents is unquestionable. Databases ca... more The value of learning from process safety accidents and incidents is unquestionable. Databases can accumulate these lessons and function as a source of collective memory on what can go wrong in safety. Although there has been a number of other incident related databases established around the world during the last decades, the DECHEMA Incident Database differs significantly from them. This is true mainly in terms of: procedures for guaranteeing standardized, high quality, usable information in the database; measures for guaranteeing anonymity to the companies that submit their internal incident reports for consideration to the database and dissemination activities, in particular within the chemical industries. The paper describes how a database can support process industries to learn from the mistakes of others by providing them a relatively low amount of high quality high relevance information. The paper then discusses how the DECHEMA Incident Database meets those requirements, its structure and its functions.

IN ENGLISH.......................................................................................... more IN ENGLISH.................................................................................................................. II ABSTRACT IN GERMAN.................................................................................................................IIIIN GERMAN.................................................................................................................III ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS................................................................................................................ IV NOMENCLATURE .........................................................................................................................VIII

The invention relates to a method and apparatus for determining the ignition conditions for a gas... more The invention relates to a method and apparatus for determining the ignition conditions for a gas or gas mixture. It is an object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus for determining the ignition conditions for a gas or gas mixture with which the ignition conditions of the gas or gas mixture can be determined very accurately at a low cost for a wide pressure and temperature range. For this purpose a defined volume (V

Keeping and Improving Process and Plant Safety Competence – What is Needed, What Should be Done? ... more Keeping and Improving Process and Plant Safety Competence – What is Needed, What Should be Done? Norbert Pfeil*, Christian Jochum, Konstantinos Mitropetros, Peter G. Schmelzer BAM Bundesanstalt fur Materialforschung und -prufung, 12200 Berlin, Germany Robert-Stolz-Str. 54, 65812 Bad Soden DECHEMA e.V., Theodor-Heuss-Allee 25, 60486 Frankfurt am Main, Germany Bayer HealthCare AG, 51368 Leverkusen, Germany norbert.pfeil@bam.de

Chemical engineering transactions, 2016

A look on loss statistics of reportable incidents reveals that fire is the most important cause o... more A look on loss statistics of reportable incidents reveals that fire is the most important cause of major losses in the chemical industry. Therefore it pays off to think about how advanced fire precautions may help to minimize the risk of such damages. This is the topic of the ProcessNet working group “Fire Protection in the Chemical Industry”. Experts from different chemical companies, consultant agencies, insurers and universities, who may contribute to the subject of fire precautions, cooperate and exchange experiences. It aims to establish a still more efficient risk fire management at chemical plants. Important working areas are: knowledge transfer between process safety and fire protection, evaluation and assessing the application of new technologies and learning from experiences. One risk management methodology for the prevention of fire incidents describing protection measures in dependency of combustible components and of financial and social interests is described.

Chemical engineering transactions, 2016

The value of learning from process safety accidents and incidents is unquestionable. Databases ca... more The value of learning from process safety accidents and incidents is unquestionable. Databases can accumulate these lessons and function as a source of collective memory on what can go wrong in safety. Although there has been a number of other incident related databases established around the world during the last decades, the DECHEMA Incident Database differs significantly from them. This is true mainly in terms of: procedures for guaranteeing standardized, high quality, usable information in the database; measures for guaranteeing anonymity to the companies that submit their internal incident reports for consideration to the database and dissemination activities, in particular within the chemical industries. The paper describes how a database can support process industries to learn from the mistakes of others by providing them a relatively low amount of high quality high relevance information. The paper then discusses how the DECHEMA Incident Database meets those requirements, its structure and its functions.

IN ENGLISH.......................................................................................... more IN ENGLISH.................................................................................................................. II ABSTRACT IN GERMAN.................................................................................................................IIIIN GERMAN.................................................................................................................III ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS................................................................................................................ IV NOMENCLATURE .........................................................................................................................VIII

The invention relates to a method and apparatus for determining the ignition conditions for a gas... more The invention relates to a method and apparatus for determining the ignition conditions for a gas or gas mixture. It is an object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus for determining the ignition conditions for a gas or gas mixture with which the ignition conditions of the gas or gas mixture can be determined very accurately at a low cost for a wide pressure and temperature range. For this purpose a defined volume (V

Keeping and Improving Process and Plant Safety Competence – What is Needed, What Should be Done? ... more Keeping and Improving Process and Plant Safety Competence – What is Needed, What Should be Done? Norbert Pfeil*, Christian Jochum, Konstantinos Mitropetros, Peter G. Schmelzer BAM Bundesanstalt fur Materialforschung und -prufung, 12200 Berlin, Germany Robert-Stolz-Str. 54, 65812 Bad Soden DECHEMA e.V., Theodor-Heuss-Allee 25, 60486 Frankfurt am Main, Germany Bayer HealthCare AG, 51368 Leverkusen, Germany norbert.pfeil@bam.de