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Do You Feel Lucky? or Do You Want to Identify and Manage Safety - Critical Equipment?

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 13, 2016
Today’s process safety practices are invariably the result of hard lessons learned by industry from major accidents. Process safety management...

Successfully Managing a Changing Workforce - Application to Process Safety Management

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
Companies worldwide are faced with the difficult challenge of managing workforce change in a time when budgets are tight, pressures to decrease costs...

Dust Explosions - the Nature of the Problem and Practical Measures for Its Control - Including the Requirements of the New NFPA 652 for Dust Hazard Assessment

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
Many powders will burn slowly or with difficulty as a layer on a surface, but can explode if dispersed as a cloud. In fact, the vast majority of...

Improving Combustion Efficiency, Reliability, and Safety in Large Fired Heaters Utilizing Multiplexed Laser Based Monitoring and Diagnostic Systems

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
Operators are often challenged to maintain well-balanced, uniform combustion across a large fired heater in order to optimize efficiency, reliability...

Inherently Safety Quenching of HCN Polymerization with Phosphoric Acid

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
Hydrogen Cyanide (HCN) product is stored in tanks at many production facilities. It is capable of self-reaction that could end in explosive...

Safety Practice for Refinery and Petrochemical Plants - During the Major T&I (Turnaround & Inspection)

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
Safety Practice for Refinery and Petrochemical in the Major T&I Rabigh Refinery and Petrochemical Company (Petro Rabigh), is an integrated...

Case Study on Inspection of Radiant Heater Ethylene Cracker Tubes

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
A tube crawler has been developed to quantify the carburization in 25%Cr-35%Ni alloy tubes used in furnaces for ethylene production. Eddy current...

An early lesson and a late night: how I learned the real design expert is the user

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
During my first few weeks as a full-time engineer, safety truly hit home. My co-worker and I had been tasked with working on a fermentation...

Assessing Meticulous Verification Effectiveness Utilizing HAZOP and LOPA

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
In 2011, the Center for Chemical Process Safety initiated work on Vision 20/20. The goal of Vision 20/20 is to demonstrate what perfect process...

Forge Bonding: A Safer Metal Joining Process

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
When planning in-service repairs or enhancements that involve the joining of metals; sparks, flames and even elevated temperatures are a concern for...

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