Johnston, J. E.
Jim Johnston is the Principal Engineer and Business Director for Bath Group Process Safety Management. He is nationally recognized as an expert on the topic of process electrical safety in hazardous locations. He earned a BSEE degree from the University of Houston and is registered as a professional engineer in Texas. Mr. Johnston has more than 40 yr of experience in the petrochemical and petroleum industries. He has designed process safety shutdown systems, performed electrical safety reviews, implemented compliance design solutions, participated in process safety reviews and installed field instrumentation application and control system designs. He has also been published in several trade journals.
Determining the proper hazardous area classification
Here's a common-sense approach using a basic four-part process
- 1
- ... 1 pages
- Consortium launches study to create a consolidated hub for recycled plastics 5/22
- Eni strengthens its global LNG strategy with long-term supply agreements in Indonesia 5/22
- Breakthrough shows how electricity could replace heat to turn CO₂ into useful chemicals 5/22
- bp's Whiting Refinery offers revised proposal to union in ongoing talks 5/22
- Plains oil pipeline partly shut down after rupture in East Los Angeles (U.S.), could disrupt supplies to refineries 5/22
- Vitol moves to open Mexico fuel terminal years after bribery scandal 5/22
