Facility Design Issues

The facility design must consider decommissioning issues, as discussed in Section 4.6. 

California Steel Industries, Inc., located in Fontana, CA, reclaimed wastes to increase profits and address water use issues. The facility, a steel mill, is situated in an area that does not have a ready supply of process water. Also, the offsite recycling facility used to dispose of spent process pickle liquor was soon to become unavailable. As a result of these concerns, the company constructed an onsite recycling facility designed to recover ferrous chloride for resale and to reuse water and hydrogen chloride for use in steel processing operations. Environmental benefits include the recovery and resale of 20 to 25 t/d of ferrous chloride, 13,440 L/d of hydrogen chloride, and 49,200 L/d of water. In addition, corporate liability was minimized because spent liquor was no longer sent to a disposal facility. 

DuPont carried out and supported research and development by others focused on conceptual design studies for an NRC licensed fuel recycle complex based on its successful reprocessing experience and lessons learned from that experience and the experience of others. The design studies were completed and reports issued in November 1978. Costs for the 3000 ton/ycar integrated fuel reprocessing/fabrication facility were estimated at 3.7 billion (1978 dollars). Special features ofthis facility design include ... 

Improvement Item Development of a recovery checklist may be beneficial for future incidents to address issues such as CIS debriefings, vehicle recovery, and temporary department facilities. Designated individual should be identified to coordinate donations and volunteers. 

It is not the intent of this Guideline to deal in depth with facility security issues. However, effective fire prevention in a processing facility depends on people in addition to systems to detect developing fires and other incidents and to detect unauthorized intrusion into the facility. Intruder-caused vandalism, damage, spills, releases, or fires are not common, but are a credible threat. The potential fire prevention and protection requirements to manage the risk of security events from terrorism need to be considered in the overall fire protection system design. 

CLEAN-FACILITY DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, AND MAINTENANCE ISSUES... 

Front-end planning typically utilizes the expertise of client process people to convey the requirements of the pharmaceutical facility to the design team. With this information in hand the design team begins the facility design incorporating process needs, code requirements, safety issues, material and personnel flow, work-in-process storage, utility needs, and so on, into a first-cut approach. 

Raymond K. Schneider, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, Clean-Facility Design, Construction, and Maintenance Issues... 

In 1989, the OECD Council adopted an Act on Compliance with Principles of GLP. This Act contains a Decision that member countries shall (1) establish national procedures for monitoring compliance with GLP Principles, based on laboratory inspections and study audits (2) designate national compliance monitoring authorities ( CLP inspectors ) and (3) require the management of test facilities to issue a... 

As noted above, the structure for definition of cases for analysis by MEPAS starts with the facility. A facility may have one or more environmental issues (ranking units). The environmental issues may be composed of one or more releases into the environment (release units). These releases may then travel and impact people in one or more ways (scenarios). To start the sequence of defining environmental problems, the user positions the selector bar on the FACILITY designation, and presses RETURN. In the next screens that appear, the user either defines a new facility or selects a previously defined facility. For a new facility, a duplicate of the entire database for a previously defined facility may be used. The definition of a facility involves facility location descriptors and relevant users and reviewers names. 

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