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SAFETY IN MITSUBISHI POWER PLANT PRODUCTS / PROCESS

R Jayakumar
Senior General Manager – Engineering

Need for Safety in our product offering?

Mitsubishi Power is well positioned as a global power generation technology provider involved
primarily in supply and services of thermal power plants based on Coal, GTCC, IGCC, Geothermal and
AQCS mainly for power generation. MHI group is additionally involved in providing nuclear power
technology.

All these product offerings are critical equipment for the end-customer be it utilities, oil and gas,
refineries/petrochemicals, fertilizers, steel plants, etc. and RELIABILITY is a crucial criterion from the
customer's perspective.

Any major incident or significant unplanned outage endangers humans, environment as well as
profitability of the customer and in some cases reputation. Therefore, safety and reliability of our
product offerings is paramount to all stakeholders from design engineers to commissioning engineers,
EPC Contractors and end-users for mutual prosperity and trust above all.

Process Safety & Personal safety

Process safety management aims to prevent large scale disasters like explosions. Occupational or
personal safety management on the other hand aims to prevent individual level safety incidents such
as slips, falls, etc.

Process safety requires higher level solutions whereas personal safety can often be addressed by
smaller interventions.

The overall objective of the process safety requirements during design is to ensure that equipment is
designed, operated, and maintained throughout its life to attain an appropriate level of safety for its
intended application. To achieve this, the following are the major actions considered in the design
stage.
- Design, engineering, manufacturing, inspection and testing of the components as per
international codes and standards like ISO, API, ASME, NFPA etc.,
- Selection and use of right materials to avoid mechanical failure of equipment
- Structural design to withstand a reasonably foreseeable combination of loads caused by site
winds, snow, ice and seismic without causing structural collapse or other dangerous situations.
- Risk assessments to determine causes for injury to people or pose a threat to people's lives, or
to the environment, or can cause significant collateral damage.

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