Technical Presentations

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Critical P&ID Reviews Using HAZOP/LOPA Methodology ? Overkill or Underrated? Mr. John T. Perez, P.E. Mr. Andrew Madewell Cognascents Consulting Group, Inc. 11777-A Katy Fwy Ste 438 Houston, TX 77079 john.perez@cognascents.com Keywords: Process Safety Management (PSM), HAZOP, LOPA, Process and...

The most cost effective time for implementing process safety design elements is during the planning stages of the project management process. Gap: Facilities are designed with less than adequate process safety considerations and the gap is discovered after the facilities are constructed. Addressing...

The LNG industry, if not the entire energy industry, may be at a crossroad. Expectation of large shale gas supplies in the United States, with a backdrop of international economies in precarious states, makes more uncertain the promise of major investments in LNG import facilities. Already, a...

Increasing the safety and security within the chemical supply chain has been a concern of the US government for several years. Both the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have active efforts to reduce societal risk of a toxic industrial chemical...

Natural gas has been a co-feedstock to the reformers in the Sasol CTL complex since 2004. A more beneficial way is to re-route natural gas to the cryogenic separation unit and thus only reform the separated methane in the natural gas feed. However, introducing NO x into the cryogenic separation...