July 2024
Special Focus: Catalysts
Catalyst safety assessment: Making catalyst and adsorbent startups safer
An unease around potential high temperature and pressures during fresh catalyst and adsorbent startups—which can lead to situations where designed pressures and temperatures are exceeded—led the authors’ company to create the Catalyst Safety Assessment (CSA) methodology.
The Authors
Willem Groendijk is the Global Catalyst Safety Assessment Lead, based in Shell Projects & Technology. He leads the CSA team and is responsible for activities such as ensuring good quality CSAs, enhancing CSA tools and sharing learnings, both within Shell and externally. Groendijk has a background in downstream technology support for chemicals and refining, having worked at both the Pernis refinery and chemicals complex, and at Shell Projects & Technology.
André Buijs is the Principal Technologist for carbonates technologies. He has 38 yr of experience with Shell Chemicals in various roles. As part of multiple Shell process safety groups, he is one of the initiators of the CSA concept.
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