High Hazard Process Conceptualisation and BEP Development
We develop the Basic Engineering Package for high hazard greenfield processes so safety is designed in before EPC commitments are made
High Hazard Process Conceptualisation
and BEP Development
The Basic Engineering Package is the stage at which a high hazard process is still cheap to make safe, because concept, technology route and major equipment philosophy are being fixed, and every inherent safety opportunity not taken here becomes an added safeguard, or an accepted risk, for the life of the plant. It is also the most dangerous handover in a project, the point where laboratory and pilot chemistry must become FEED quality engineering without losing the reasons behind each safety critical choice. Our team develops the package as that bridge. We screen technology and select the concept on inherent risk as well as cost and yield, we define the process to ISO 10628 quality, we run preliminary hazard analysis and embed a basis of safety from the outset, and we carry forward a traceable safety basis so that detailed engineering inherits intent and not just deliverables. The package gives your project a defensible foundation before the expensive commitments of EPC are made.
High Hazard Process Conceptualisation and BEP Development workflow
Define Basic Engineering Package scope per OSHA PSM / SEVESO III tier, Tier 1 (highly hazardous, >threshold quantity), Tier 2 (moderate hazard), Tier 3 (low hazard), align with CCPS Guidelines for Engineering Design for Process Safety.
Compile process definition, block flow diagram, process description, reaction stoichiometry, kinetics, thermodynamics, MTSR, gas evolution, byproducts, align with cGMP / FDA / EMA for pharmaceutical / API manufacturing.
Author Process Flow Diagrams with stream summary, Heat & Mass Balance per operating case, P&IDs per ISA 5.1 with full instrumentation / SIS / safeguards, align with detail engineering handover requirements.
Specify major equipment (reactors, distillation, dryers, storage) with material / capacity / design conditions, specify instrumentation per ISA 5.1 with SIL allocation per IEC 61511, align with HAZOP / SIL allocation outputs.
Define control philosophy, BPCS architecture (DCS / PLC), regulatory control loop strategy, advanced control (cascade, ratio, MPC), define SIS with SRS reference, integrate with HAZOP / LOPA / SIL allocation.
Conduct BEP review with operations, HSE, engineering, and corporate technology, baseline BEP for detailed engineering, specify MOC procedure for BEP modification during detailed engineering / construction.
Every deliverable from basis to handover
Complete High Hazard Process Conceptualisation and BEP Development scope covering every calculation, drawing, specification, and construction support activity.
Outcomes of High Hazard Process Conceptualisation and BEP Development
- We embed safety at the concept stage where it is cheapest to engineer
- We drive adoption of inherent safer design choices
- We strengthen design with early HAZID findings
- We support informed technology selection on risk as well as economics
- We work to IChemE and CCPS guidance throughout
- We document the design basis your regulator will ask to see
- We support what your licensor and lender need to proceed
- We produce a package that withstands FEED stage audit
- We raise FEED quality and speed by handing over a complete package
- We sharpen cross function design dialogue early
- We support licensor evaluation with clear technical definition
- We build a traceable design history your team can rely on
- We help you avoid costly rework at FEED stage
- We improve capital efficiency through sound early choices
- We support lender and investor diligence with defensible documentation
- We optimise technology selection before commitments harden
Codes & standards we work to
Triggers that signal the need
Where High Hazard Process Conceptualisation and BEP Development applies
Wellheads, separators, gas compression, FPSO topsides, produced water systems.
Distillation columns, reactors, heat exchangers, storage spheres, LPG handling.
Cryogenic exchangers, liquefaction trains, BOG compressors, storage and sendout.
Reactive systems, batch reactors, solvent handling, runaway reaction scenarios.
Boilers, HRSGs, steam headers, hydrogen systems, ammonia SCR units.
Sterile vessels, CIP/SIP, pressure fermenters, solvent recovery, spray dryers.
Tangible deliverables
- Basic Engineering Package report
- Technology screening and concept selection
- Process flow diagrams with stream summary
- Heat and mass balance
- Major equipment list
- Safety basis document
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