Technical Presentations

During the past decade, research and development in ionic liquids has grown tremendously. Targeted applications for ionic liquids include replacement of volatile organic solvents in separation processes, organic chemistry, microelectronics, and many more. Ionic liquids are simply low melting...

The catastrophic incident which occurred at Bhopal is often referenced with respect to inherent safety issues. Did intermediate chemicals need to be present? Should the neighboring community start at the fence line? Although likely not as important as the above fundamental considerations, the...

Process Safety Management (PSM) is defined as the application of management systems and controls (programs, procedures, audits, evaluations) to a manufacturing or chemical process in a way that process hazards are identified, understood, and controlled so that process-related injuries and incidents...

Many facilities have now implemented and maintained PSM programs for 20 years or more, but these facilities continue to have sometimes serious incidents and injuries suggesting a continuing need to improve their PSM performance. Of course, new requirements are often added to upgrade PSM programs,...

Consider the risk mitigation and management challenges facing a small, consumer-product-oriented facility. This site may have fewer than 100 employees with a safety manager trained in personnel safety only. There may be one mechanical engineer running the maintenance department. The raw materials...

Introduction Maintenance of process safety in the industry several tools are used such as Risk Analysis, Failure mode and events Analysis (FMEA), a Hazard operability analysis (HAZOP), Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA), and Mapping Risk. Each tool or technique, if used at the right time can prevent...