Supervision of Plant Operations

Regular monitoring of condition of equipments so that plant stoppages due to break downs are minimised and production mns of the plant are not interrupted—since frequent stopping and restarting the plant can disturb the operational settings of valves and product quality may suffer as a result. 

Plant shall be ran at as near the optimum capacity where the performance is best possible rather than overloading it (which can increase amount of impurities in final product). 

Running it much below capacity can make it very difficult to maintain optimum process temperatures/flow rates in process units such as converters, heat exchangers, and evaporators, and adversely affect running of these equipments and hence the product quality. 

There can be heat losses from the ducts and shells of process units, and the temperatures can get disturbed when the plant is run at too low rate. 

At very low temperatures, the reaction rates may get disturbed, and at very low gas velocity, the heat transfer will be affected. 

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There should be one or more senior operatives who are knowledgeable and well trained in precautionary and protective measures and also compliance with pesticide regulations. They should be responsible for the day-to-day supervision of plant operations, applications in the field, etc. No person should work alone while handling or likely to be exposed to anti-ChEs. There should always be an additional person nearby, designated as safety officer, who can view the operation at a distance sufficient, if necessary, to raise an alarm, to allow protective clothing and equipment CO be donned, and to undertake the initial rescue and possible first aid and resuscitation measures. Thus, ideally this person should be trained in the emergency mea.sures for an anti-ChE leak, spill, and exposure, and it is desirable for him or her to be trained in first aid measures to treat OP and CM poisoning. 

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