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“Closing the Holes in the Swiss Cheese Model” – Maximizing the Reliability of Operator Response to Alarms

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 29, 2017
Layers of protection for abnormal event management can be modeled as barriers of swiss cheese according to James Reason. An operatorâ€...

Increasing Refining Margins with More Flexibility in Use of High Tan Crudes

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 29, 2017
High TAN crudes offer significant opportunities for margin improvement. Historically, refiners have preferred to use metallurgy as the primary...

Temporary Management of Change: A Problem or a Necessary Part of Managing Process Safety

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 29, 2017
Temporary Management of Change (MoC) projects seem to be the boogeyman of Process Safety Management (PSM). These temporary changes are frequently...

Adapting Cause and Effects Methodology to Your Safety Instrumente System (SIS) to Reduce Human Errors from Engineering, Operations and Beyond

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 29, 2017
Title: Adapting cause and effects methodology to your Safety instrumented system (SIS) to reduce human errors from...

Oxide Formed in High Temperature Corrosion By Model Naphthenic Acids

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 28, 2017
Naphthenic acid (NAP) refers to the indigenous carboxylic acid in the crude oil. High-temperature NAP corrosion of steel is one of major concerns for...

Up-to-Date Engineering Solutions to Estimate and Minimize Thermal Breathing Losses from Storage Tanks

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 28, 2017
This paper investigates engineering solutions to estimate and minimize thermal breathing losses from atmospheric and low-pressure storage tanks. In...

RMP and ORA: A New Paradigm for Environmental Safety Management of Chemical Industry in Korea

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 28, 2017
Korea experienced a massive chemical dispersion disaster on September 27, 2012, which occurred at the Gumi National Industrial complex in the...

Limiting Oxygen Concentration of Hybrid Mixtures

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 28, 2017
An investigation into the limiting oxygen concentration (LOC) of fifteen combustible dusts, one gas, two solvents and their mixtures in the standard...

Ignitability of Combustible Dust Fueled Flash Fires with Industrial Ignition Sources

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 28, 2017
Combustible dust flash fires can represent a serious hazard in industrial settings and can require significant mitigation efforts. Increasingly,...

How Small of a Cloud We Want to Detect on Our Gas Detectors?

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 28, 2017
There is a crucial question that has room for a lot discussions. How small is really small? The idea of this paper is to cover a series of cloud...

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