The Tank farm upgrade installation is now well underway. A planning meeting was held on site on the 11^th June hosted by Reynolds attended by, Honeywell, Swinton, Townsend, AGL Engineering, SHP and CATCH.

With a key focus on the components being installed and how we optimise the installation aspect to ensure a trouble free commissioning process, and meeting a commissioning deadline date of 15^th August 2020.

This is truly a world class facility and will be unique not only in this area but within the UK. It gives us the ability to be able to operate up to three different control rooms at the same time. This could be three different areas of a large plant or even different sites. It is using new state of the art equipment and interfacing to existing control systems to again replicate the real world. The new upgrade will be able to replicate loading and unloading of Road, Ship, Tank to Tank, Rail and external pipelines in either batch mode, continuous mode metered or unmetered and with the added functionality to be able to insert additives into the line. It can be used for instrumentation training and maintenance routines. As well as a host of other courses. The courses available to run and the potential possibilities of this facility are virtually limitless.

The facility is largely being funded by Reynolds training with support from LEP skills funding.

Further project work being funded by the LEP

• The barrier system is now in place and working. The system operates by recognising Number plates ANPR. Only authorised plates are allowed on site all others will have to stop be identified before gaining entry.
• The new site signage is now also in place
• The Air conditioning to the training centre and the conference centre
• The extension to the dining room.
• The increased and upgrade to the CCTV around the site

CATCH CEO and Humber Branch Chairman, David Talbot FEI was recently interviewed by Net Zero Carbon.

The Humber Cluster is the UK’s largest CO2 emitting industrial cluster. To achieve Net Zero by 2050 such interconnected regional networks must make a concerted effort to decarbonise.

In this interview, Talbot sets out how this can be achieved through a revolution in green economic development, including the necessity of negative emissions and industrial scale hydrogen production alongside carbon capture and storage.

https://netzerocarbon.com/net-zero-tv/industrial-decarbonisation-plans-to-deliver-negative-emissions/

The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS), in collaboration with Innovate UK and Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN), will be hosting competition briefing webinars on 14 and 20 July to share details of the new funding programme, Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (IETF).

The Phase 1 funding for England, Wales and Northern Ireland opens on the 20th July and is worth up to £30m. It will be available in the form of a grant scheme and will fund:

• Deployment of mature energy efficiency technologies that improve industrial process energy efficiency and reduce energy demand
• Feasibility and engineering studies for projects deploying mature energy efficiency technologies or deep decarbonisation technologies. These technical and economic assessments of potential projects reduce risks and provide more accurate cost estimates, enabling decision-makers to make informed investment choice.

Further details and to register can be found here

Decarbonisation Roadmap (HIDR) to establish a pathway for the Humber industrial cluster’s carbon emissions to be net zero by 2040, and significantly reduced by 2030.

The HIDR is supported with a grant of £96,000 from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) administered by innovate UK and focuses on the Humber industrial cluster, which is concentrated in locations around the Humber Estuary: around Immingham, Saltend Chemicals Park and the Scunthorpe-Selby corridor.  Each has substantial concentrations of industry and power generation, offering the potential to test different approaches and phase interventions, whilst capturing synergies from bringing the UK’s largest cluster together.

Read more here: https://www.humberlep.org/project/humber-industrial-decarbonisation-roadmap-hidr-phase-1/

Throughout the pandemic the facilities team have continued to work though our site upgrade and improvement plans. They held a meeting on site on the 11^th June with all parties to kick off the installation of the Tank Farm upgrade and agreed a plan to completion – Installation will resume next week which will give  an overall completion date of 10^th August. The facility will then be available for use by the 17th August.

In other areas,  Air Conditioning unit installation is underway and is now completed in the training centre. The conference centre will have Air Conditioning by next week and has had new blinds fitted.

On the 15th June, the new  barrier and site signage work is due to start.

We will keep you updated!

If you have any questions in regards to the site changes, please contact Paul Snowden – paul.snowden@catchuk.org

Paulo Oliveira of CATCH Technical Partner ESC Ltd, delivered an insightful webinar to industry on the 10^th June, entitled Safety in Numbers, is target risk really just a number? Paulo explained – we all make decisions on a daily basis based on our perception of risk. But how does this change when the decision is formalised and does it reflect reality? Paulo covered in his presentation, techniques to quantify and define boundaries but also how to understand them, make clear decisions to implement risk targets. Of great interest to the companies in attendance, were the major hazard case studies that outlined incidents in BP Texas, Buncefield Storage, Flixborough and Boeing 737max – all incident reports identified key causes not involving numerical analysis , but recommended good practices (E.g Human Factors, Management of change etc). Paulo concluded his talk of how to incorporate numbers into your safety standard including planning, verification, and testing.

Jill Mooney, Head of CATCH Technical said “We were really pleased to hear from Paulo, as he has a wealth of experience in this area, he gave us a really informative and good insight into target risk”

CATCH Technical are offering companies access to a free (not exceeding) half hour telephone consultation on the use of IEC61508/61511 to manage risk

If you would like further information on Functional Safety Standards IEC61508/61511 or CATCH Technical please contact Jill – jill.mooney@catchuk.org you can also view a recording of the webinar here.

Special thanks to Rachael Cowin for producing the Sketchnote

Shirley has worked for CATCH for nearly 10 years, and seen many site changes and expansions throughout her career. This summer Shirley retires and we will be extremely sorry to see her go.  Shirley is a complete professional in everything she does supporting all those working within our Technical Training Centre. David Talbot, CEO said “Shirley will leave a big gap in the team when she retires, and everyone at CATCH and all those on site will miss her very much, in particular her total dedication in everything she did. We all wish her a long and happy retirement”.