Chemical Safety Evaluation & Testing

It is the work that translates laboratory measurement into engineering decisions you can act on. We generate data on thermal stability, calorimetric runaway profiles, dust explosibility, flammability limits, reactivity and vent sizing, then interpret it into safe operating windows, MTSR limits and DIERS sized vent areas. The aim is that the real behaviour of your materials is understood before it ever reaches the plant.

We use Differential Scanning Calorimetry and adiabatic calorimetry through ARC, VSP2 and Phi Tec, the 20 L sphere for dust and the ASTM and CEFIC protocols, working to standards including ASTM E537, E1226, E1981, E2079, D93 and E659, the AIChE DIERS vent sizing methodology, NFPA 660 for dust hazard analysis and the UN Manual of Tests and Criteria. Testing runs through accredited ISO IEC 17025 laboratory partners.

Runaway reactions, dust explosions and thermal instability are only credible once the measured behaviour of your chemistry is known, and literature values rarely capture your exact formulation or process conditions. Generating the data early gives you a defensible thermal stability and runaway envelope, correctly sized emergency vents and a scale up safety basis that holds up under FDA and EMA inspection, rather than discovering the hazard on the plant.

You receive raw calorimetric and explosibility data, a Stoessel classification of the reaction hazard, calculated MTSR, TMR24 and SADT values, a defined safe operating window, DIERS vent sizing inputs and a control and inerting philosophy. We compile it into a Process Safety Information dossier that feeds directly into your HAZOP, LOPA and inherent safer design reviews.

We serve specialty and fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals and API, polymers and resins, food, feed and powder handling, energetic materials and explosives, and battery and energy storage. Any process with reactive chemistry, combustible dust or thermally sensitive materials benefits from measured data rather than assumption.