Murtaza I. Gandhi
Manager of Qualitative Risk and Sustainability, BakerRisk
Speaker Biography:
Mr. Murtaza I. Gandhi is a Principal Engineer for the BakerRisk office in Houston, TX. He manages qualitative services including PHA/LOPA, fire and gas detection mapping and hazardous area classification. He has been with BakerRisk for the past 13 years, prior to that he worked at the Jacobs Alliance Group (ExxonMobil, Baton Rouge) as controls and instrumentation engineer on various projects. He has performed numerous safety systems analysis, verification and installations throughout his 20+ years career. Since 2020, Mr. Gandhi leads BakerRisk’s Low Carbon Energy risk management initiative and leads a group focusing on hydrogen and hydrogen carriers, biofuels, battery energy storage and carbon capture. Mr. Gandhi has been with ISA since 2001 and has served the organization in many different roles. He sits on the NFPA 715 committee and is active on ISA TR84.00.05 and TR84.00.05.
Abstract:
All the nations in world are in a race towards saving our planet from climate change, by finding ways to diversify our energy needs through no carbon and low carbon sources. USA is in this same journey and is spending substantial government and private funding to achieve the carbon reduction goals. While a lot of focus goes on different technologies to produce these sources, relatively less attention is given to producing, transporting and using them safely. This not only results in safety incidents, but also erodes public confidence in these energy sources. One bad incident can impact the whole industry. This presentation aims to share lessons learned from various projects in the US where process safety has been incorporated successfully in the project life cycle, while meeting the schedule and budgetary requirements of the project. By incorporating process safety early and with proper due diligence, the project implementation goes much smoother both from compliance and safety perspective, but also increases employee and public confidence in the project thereby allowing for a quicker adoption of the technology. The presentation will share a case study of various studies for a hydrogen facility and it’s overall impact.
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