Publications

Odorization has been used for many years in fuel gases and its success as a warning indicator is linked to the fact that its presence in air is always an indication of a hazardous situation. Fuel gases can only be admitted safely to the atmosphere if it is a component in a combustion process, and this process destroys the odorant. Following serious incidents in nitrogen atmosphere in confined spaces or burn injuries in an oxygen enriched atmosphere, odorization of atmospheric gases is considered by some users. In response to this, EIGA has developed this Position Paper. The Position Paper makes a number of recommendations for those users who could be considering the odorization of atmospheric gases.

Keeping employees and contractors motivated and involved with environmental activities has significant benefits. Engaged employees generate ideas, are motivated to work to procedures and standards, and suggest practical modifications to work practices that may minimise environmental impact and improve business processes by using less resources. This Environmental Newsletter shares learnings and best practices for increased employee involvement in environmental activities and aspects.

According to the European Environment Agency, transport accounts for around a third of the final energy consumption in the EEA member countries and for more than a fifth of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Road transport represents 82% of transport energy use. Transport emissions are coming under increasing attention of policy makers in the EU. Emissions of air pollutants from transport have generally declined over the past two decades. However, around 90% of city dwellers in the EU are still exposed to air pollutants at levels deemed harmful to health by the World Health Organization (WHO), and transport is a large contributor to this. Transport also causes noise impacts. Road traffic exposes more people to harmful levels of noise than any other source. This Environmental Newsletter is intended to help assist people how they can improve the environmental impact related to transport operations.

Human factors play a significant role in environmental incidents and in maintaining legal compliance. As with safety incidents, eliminating or minimising human factor causes can be achieved by design and by using behavioural techniques. This newsletter provides examples and guidance for the gas industry on the use of human factors tools and their application to environmental issues. It provides some examples of where these tools can be applied in addressing conditions with human factors causes, for example during deliveries of materials, loading unloading, filling.

The EIGA Environmental Award recognizes EIGA Members for environmental excellence and nominations can be received for sites, teams, or individuals. The Environmental Award aims to promote best environmental practices and recognise employees in the Industrial and Medical Gas industry who have been involved in these. It also enables EIGA to share these best practices and to promote environmental awareness and improvements within companies and across the industry. For the 2015 Awards, presented at our 2016 Annual General Meeting, EIGA received applications from a range of projects that merited recognition for improving the environment. In this Newsletter is a selection of the projects that were judged to have met the criteria and should be seen as best practice in the Industrial and Medical Gas industry.

Water Footprints and Water Footprinting methodologies are an emerging topic for regulators and non-government organisations. EIGA has produced this newsletter to provide information to EIGA members on what is meant by Water Footprint, what it means to the industrial and medical gas industry, and what actions should be taken. Additional sources of information are also provided.

Installation and removal of equipment on or from a customer’s site as part of engineering industrial and medical gas installations is a frequent activity for EIGA members. This newsletter highlights a number of key environmental hazards and some methods of control that are relevant to commissioning and decommissioning of small installations on customer sites such as tanks, pipework, vessels , compressors, pumps, filling stations, PSAs rather than larger on site gas plants. These equipment installations are generally small scale activities and the hazards can be overlooked and not identified and controlled.

This publication covers cryogenic reciprocating pumps and pump installations for hydrogen and LNG service.

High Temperature Hydrogen Attack (HTHA) is a mechanism that can significantly weaken and damage a variety of steel materials that are used in the construction of hydrogen plants, including carbon steel and various low alloy steels. Recently HTHA limits have been changed. This publication provides guidance, heuristics, and some examples of methodologies for the review of existing HYCO plant assets to determine their potential for HTHA-initiated cumulative damage. It will also provide guidelines for risk categorisation, inspection strategies, and recommendations on risk mitigation.

The purpose of this publication is to provide a summary of operating risks, recommendations and guidelines for the safe design and operations of various hydrogen (H2), carbon monoxide (CO) and syngas (H2 & CO) production facilities including carbon (CO2) capture, sometimes known as HyCO plants.