2012

Process Safety Management is often presented as technically complex, requiring a large staff of engineers and specialists with an array of tools and techniques that appear to grow in intricacy and sophistication year by year. Large companies are generally well positioned to operate in this arena –...

Ester Brawley, Steve Maher “Unique Challenges Facing Small Companies Developing and Implementing PSM” Small Companies that are subject to PSM face many challenges to developing and implementing PSM. These challenges can be grouped into three major categories: knowledge and expertise, limited...

The potential for a deflagration to detonation transition (DDT) to occur in an unconfined vapor cloud explosion (VCE) with high reactivity flammable gases (e.g., ethylene, hydrogen, etc.) under conditions relevant to chemical processing and petroleum refining plants has been demonstrated in...

Materials development for advanced catalysts and gas sensors

Abstracts Project: PSM training for new Engineer Presenter: Name VIGNALE, Alberto Eduardo Telephone +54-3487-444372 e-mail alberto.e.vignale@monsanto.com Type of Project: Process Safety Management Mentoring for New Engineer Brief description: Monsanto is an American Company that has operations in...

Braskem is the 8th largest petrochemical company in the world and the biggest producer of polymers in the Americas. The Braskem Triunfo site includes 2 Naphtha Crackers with a combined capacity of 1250 KTA ethylene and 685 KTA propylene. AspenTech DMCplus controllers had been built for both plants...

Biobased Materials (Plant Proteins) as Alternatives for Suspected Carcinogens and other Hazardous Chemicals in Large-Scale Manufacturing Processes

Leveraging Open Innovation - Experiences in the small business universe

Major process safety incidents may occur infrequently, but when they do occur, the consequences can be severe. Corporate performance goals are such that an individual site or facility could operate for many years without a classified Process Safety Incident (PSI) and still be at risk by operating...

With the increase in requirements for monitoring and improving process safety indicators on a thermoelectric unit linked to a Braskem Basic Petrochemical Site in Brazil, a large range of knowledge among engineers and operators were found. The theme Process Safety was commonly confused with...