Technical Presentations | AIChE

Other Sites & Tools

Technical Groups

You are here

Technical Presentations

Safer and Smarter Sulfiding of Hydrotreating Catalysts

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
Catalyst sulfiding (aka "presulfiding") is a critical step to ensure that hydrotreating catalysts perform as designed after startup. In order to...

Managing Alarms to Support Operational Discipline

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
Process alarms are frequently cited as a safeguard in a Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) and an Independent Protection Layers (IPL) in a Layer of...

Is a Two-Inch Hole Adequate for a Siting Study?

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
For several decades now, many consequence-based siting assessments (e.g., API RP 752) have relied upon a two-inch hole to represent what is termed a...

Practical Risk Based Approach to Pressure Relief and Effluent Handling System Design

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
Recent updates to pressure relief system design RAGAGEP include provision for risk based overpressure protection. Although risk based approaches are...

Process Safety: The Culture of Management System Design, Implementation, and Sustainability

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
With promulgation of the PSM Standard 29 CFR 1910.119, OSHA mandated that a management system comprised of several well-defined elements be...

Fault Propagation Analysis and Causal Fault Diagnosis for Petrochemical Plant Based on Granger Causality Test

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
Abstract: Petrochemical plants have becoming increasingly large and automatic. There exist strong interdependencies between various units. Once any...

Catastrophic Domino Effect from Projection of Fragments Associated with Spherical Vessel Explosions

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 11, 2016
The domino effect related to the projection of fragments in an industrial environment occurs when an element of a system, such as a chemical vessel,...

Shelter-in-place Design Considerations - How Safe is Safe Enough?

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 11, 2016
Facilities with potentially significant toxic and/or flammable hazards often establish shelter-in-place locations (SIPs) in order to mitigate risks...

Sustainable Productivity and Zero Harm in Practice

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 11, 2016
With each passing generation, the world seems to become a better place to live in. What seemed to be an unimaginable goal/impossible task yesterday,...

La Educacion EN Seguridad De Procesos

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 11, 2016
LA EDUCACION EN SEGURIDAD DE PROCESOS Karina Isabel Peñaflor 1 , 1 Pan American Energy LLC Alem 1180 - Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires Buenos Aires...

Pages

You may also be looking for...