Commitment to Process Safety

The Cornerstone of process safety excellence. A workforce that is actively involved and an organization that fully supports process safety as a core value will tend to do the right things in the right ways at the right times-even when no one else is looking.

Integrity Inspection of In-Plant Underground Piping

Apr 2, 2012

Everett Johnson

Underground piping inside plant boundaries is frequently out-of-sight, out-of-mind. While there exists a wide body of knowledge, mature technology, and established techniques for inspection of cross-country underground pipelines, and even above-ground in-plant piping, the converse is true for...

Assimilating Design Formulation and Design Review Into a HAZOP (For certain types of capital projects, it will happen anyhow, so structure the HAZOP and plan for it)

Apr 2, 2012

Steven T. Maher

There have been numerous guidebooks written for the application of Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) Studies [1] to operating facilities and capital projects where the design is relatively mature. For these systems, critical process safety information is typically available, but for fast-moving...

Flammability Limits of HYDROGEN and ITS MIXTURES with Hydrocarbons In AIR AT Atmospheric and SUB-Atmospheric PRESSURES

Apr 2, 2012

Hai Le

FLAMMABILITY LIMITS OF HYDROGEN AND ITS MIXTURES WITH HYDROCARBONS IN AIR AT ATMOSPHERIC AND SUB-ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURES Hai Le, Subramanya Nayak, M. Sam Mannan The knowledge of hydrogen flammability characteristics, especially flammability limits, is of particular importance and interest because of...

Design - Educating the Next Generation of PSM Professionals

Apr 2, 2012

Daniel Crowl

Design - PSM Education

Learning from an Industrial Chemical Perspective

Apr 2, 2012

Jack Mc Cavit

Learning from an industrial chemical perspective

ìWell the Team Has Met and Completed the PHAÖ.Now What?î

Apr 2, 2012

Dewana Tarpley

Learning from the experiences and expertise of others has long been recognized as a valued process when completing PHAs. The gathering of a multi-disciplinary review allows facilities to succeed in a path of continuous improvement by evaluating the current and future state of the process based on...

Are Your Credits Worthy?

Apr 2, 2012

Lisa Long

Chemical and petrochemical manufacturing processes can be subject to high consequence, low frequency events. Process Safety Management programs are intended to identify and eliminate or manage the hazards associated with these events. In recent years, industry has increasingly turned to...

Safety System Impairments and the Need to Manage Peak Risk

Apr 2, 2012

David K. Lewis

The catastrophic incident which occurred at Bhopal is often referenced with respect to inherent safety issues. Did intermediate chemicals need to be present? Should the neighboring community start at the fence line? Although likely not as important as the above fundamental considerations, the...

Half a Century of Olefin Plant Accidents: The Role of Mechanical Integrity

Apr 2, 2012

Sebastian Diaz

Sebastian Diaz, Aon energy Risk Engineering, League City, TX. Email: sebastian.diaz@aon.com Russ Davis, CSP Aon Energy Risk Engineering, League City, TX. Email: russ.davis@aon.com Keywords: mechanical integrity, loss of containment, major accidents Abstract Since OSHA's Process Safety Management...

Improving the Performance of Established PSM Programs

Apr 2, 2012

James A. Klein

Many facilities have now implemented and maintained PSM programs for 20 years or more, but these facilities continue to have sometimes serious incidents and injuries suggesting a continuing need to improve their PSM performance. Of course, new requirements are often added to upgrade PSM programs,...

Improving Conduct of Operations Using Best Practice Tools From Operating, Engineering, and Management Discipline

Apr 2, 2012

Jerry Forest

Improving Conduct of Operations Using Best Practice Tools from Operating, Engineering, and Management Discipline Jerry Forest Global Process Safety Manager Celanese 1601 West LBJ Freeway Dallas, TX 75234 (214) 417-1920 Jerry.forest@celanese.com Abstract Conduct of operations concerns how work is...

Structure of Process Safety in the Operating Plants ñ Leaders of Management and Analysis of Risks and Impacts

Apr 2, 2012

Marcus VinÌcius dos S Machado

BRASKEM within the production process developed a framework and Analysis of Impacts and Risk Management Process which seeks to ensure that the risk acceptability criteria are met and developed throughout the life cycle of projects and facilities, from conceptual design to work of construction or...

Stability Analysis of Safety Valve

Mar 22, 2010

The stability for a safety valve was investigated by experiments and analysis. It was found that the dynamic instability was caused by the interaction effect between the pressure wave propagation through the inlet pipe and the valve disc motion. This dynamic instability is mitigated by the...