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CCPS Project 246 - 2nd Edition Guidelines for Siting and Layout of Facilities

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 29, 2017
The new second edition of CCPS's Guidelines for Siting and Layout of Facilities has been written to address the many developments in the last decade...

Dust Explosion Hazards: Housekeeping Quantified

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 29, 2017
DUST-EXPLOSION HAZARDS: HOUSEKEEPING QUANTIFIED Richard W. Prugh, PE, CSP Principal Process Safety Engineer Chilworth Technology, Inc., a Dekra...

Fracture Toughness and Brittle Failure – a Pressure Vessel Case Study

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 29, 2017
That low fracture toughness can cause brittle failure in steel has been documented in well-known studies. These include failure of Liberty Ships...

Don't Do What We Did - Stupidity, Luck, and Making Good Choices

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 29, 2017
Abstract - Fortunately, the focus on safe behaviors, hazard recognition, and risk management has greatly improved over the past few decades. However...

Are Your Safeguards Fast Enough to Be Effective?

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 29, 2017
A number of design pitfalls must be avoided when allocating the process safety time during the specification of instrumented safeguards. A key...

Beyond Being Proactively Reactive

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 29, 2017
In the last 20 years, Industry has made great strides in utilizing tools to manage the day-to-day business of equipment failure in order to minimize...

Cyber Incident Exercise for Safety Protection in Critical Infrastructure

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 29, 2017
The companies, especially owners of critical infrastructures (CIs), must build a correspondence process to cope with a serious incident beforehand...

Natural Calamities and Challenges in Preventing and Mitigating Impacts in Japanese Refineries and Petrochemical Plants

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 29, 2017
On March 11, 2011, Japan suffered the Great East Japan Earthquake of magnitude 9.0. It was the most powerful known earthquake to have hit Japan in...

Ten Years of Living Risk Based Process Safety

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 29, 2017
Ten Years of Living Risk Based Process Safety CCPS published Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety in March 20007. We were the primary authors of...

Proven Approaches to Ensuring Operators Can Respond to Critical Process Deviations in Time (Human Response IPL)

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 29, 2017
Humans can be the cause on an accident scenario (the Initiating Event [IE]) or humans can serve or participate as an independent protection layer (...

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