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The Newly Developed High Pressure Ratio Compressor for the Olefins Market

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 11, 2016
The current pressure on cost calls for new technologies that can simplify and reduce the number of compressor bodies installed as well as saving...

Reforzamiento De Componentes No-Estructurales En Edificios Sometidos a Explosiones

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 11, 2016
Estructuras en instalaciones químicas y petroquímicas a menudo se encuentran en zonas que pueden ser sometidos a explosiones. Los edificios en esas...

Why Detonation Is the Only Way to Explain Some Vapour Cloud Explosions

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 11, 2016
The possibility that Deflagration to Detonation Transition (DDT) occurs in vapour cloud explosions (VCEs) in industrial accidents has generally only...

40 Years of Worst Practices - Don't Do This!

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 11, 2016
ABSTRACT Having worked in the chemical and PSM industries since 1976, on this, the 40 th anniversary, I'd like to share with you some of the worst...

One Company's Observations on the Implementation of LOPA

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 11, 2016
Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) is gaining popularity as a risk assessment tool, but often unexpected difficulties are encountered when rolling...

Compressor for Ethylene Plants - 101 Tutorial Session

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 11, 2016
Selection and application of large compressors in Ethylene Plant service will be presented. Details will include: Machine overview, operation,...

Human Factors and Their Impact on Plant Safety

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 11, 2016
History is full of technology breakthroughs, all striving to increase productivity and efficiency, from the steam engine and the telegraph; we’...

The Use of Familiar Tool to Diffuse the Feeling of Unease Relating to the Possible Non-Dependability of Barriers of Protection

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 11, 2016
Despite the efforts that many organizations have put into the implementation of Process Safety Management system, there are still opportunities for...

Implementacion De Ventanas Operativas (IOW) En Refineria Latina

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 11, 2016
Implementación de ventanas operativas (IOW) en Refinería Latina: Introducción El siguiente trabajo describe el camino recorrido por una refinería...

Identify SIF and Specify Necessary Sil, and Other IPLs, As Part of PHA/HAZOP, or Why It Is Not Necessary to "Boldly Go Beyond HAZOP and LOPA"

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 11, 2016
This paper shows how to apply the qualitative definition of IPLs within the setting of a process hazard analysis (PHA) to get most of the gain from...

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