Session: Process Safety in a Climate-Friendly Future World

With many saying a climate catastrophe is in the world’s future, new ideas to slow down the pace of climate change have been introduced and developed. Some of these include carbon capture, carbon storage/sequestration, lithium-ion battery manufacturing and usage, hydrogen generation, blue (insert chemical here), green (insert chemical here), Power-to-X (P2X), and bio-based materials or energy. With these new processes will come process safety needs. Will they be classical needs? Or will they be different in some way? Many of the responses will initially involve small startup companies operating without support from a corporate process safety management (PSM) organization. Often these companies will have many of the typical PSM hazards and risks. Implementing PSM at these sites is and has been a challenge that will continue to grow in the near future. This session is seeking papers to link new technologies in a climate-friendly future world to the need for process safety concepts and techniques. Will process safety professionals be forced to adjust? Or are they right sized for the global future?