May 21, 2025 Oil, Gas & Chemicals

Highly Hazardous Reactive Materials Demand Safe Design Principles

Designing reactive processes for highly hazardous reactive materials (HHRMs) presents a complex set of challenges that go well beyond typical process engineering. At the core of these challenges is the inherent instability and high reactivity of HHRMs, which can lead to violent runaway reactions, explosions, toxic releases or fires if not rigorously controlled.