(55aq) Process Safety Implementation for Mothball Facilities

Mothballing is the deactivation and preservation of equipment or a production facility for possible future use. It can also mean the setting aside of an object or idea for possible reuse or revisiting in the future. Mothballing is common with expensive capital goods, machinery, other assets that are costly to create, have long useful lives. Mothballing may lead to assets being put back into use, their updating and refurbishment, disassembly for reuse of their parts.

In our company, we have successfully implemented and ramped up plant during CoVid time. These plants were shutoff since long and posed danger to life and health. This was also implemented in newer plants which company took over and which were closed for more than a year. Safe startup and rampup was a challenge. This methodology helped us a lot in safe startup of the plant.