Conference Presentations - 2008 AIChE Annual Meeting

A Century of Process Safety: History of Process Safety and Loss Prevention in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers

Nov 17, 2008

Dennis C. Hendershot

Process safety has always been an important consideration in chemical engineering, and the activities of AIChE have expanded over the years to more formally focus on this critical aspect of chemical engineering practice. Early initiatives included the annual symposia on Safety in Ammonia and...

A Century of Process Safety: Preventing Accidents through Experienced Based Learning

Nov 17, 2008

Scott Berger

On December 3, 1984, water contamination of a tank of methyl isocyanate in Bhopal, India initiated a series of events that led to a catastrophic toxic release, killing more than 3,000 residents and injuring over 100,000. Immediately after, leaders from the chemical industry asked AIChE to lead a...

A Century of Process Safety: The Process Safety Journey at Air Products

Nov 17, 2008

Shakeel Kadri

We at Air Products have developed a very robust "safety" culture over the years. My talk will review the highlights of the journey that we started in the mid seventies following two very tragic process safety incidents. It will discuss the approach our senior leadership then took, that has become...

A Century of Process Safety: Two Centuries of Process Safety at DuPont

Nov 17, 2008

James A. Klein, Karen K. Tancredi

The continued dedication over 200 years to understand the hazards present in our processes, and in successfully managing them to prevent serious injuries and incidents, has contributed significantly to current process safety priorities and practices. Learning from experience ֠what has worked and...

A Century of Transport Phenomena: A Quarter Century of Fun with Industrial Strength Transport Phenomena

Nov 17, 2008

David H. West

In his 1961 review of the first edition of BSL's Transport Phenomena, John Butt described the book as ԯne of the most important texts to appear in the field of chemical engineering in many yearsԮ Clearly his assessment is still true 50 years later! Luckily BSL was written at a time when the digital...

A Century of Transport Phenomena: Was a Transport Phenomena Course in Chemical Engineering Curricula Inevitable?

Nov 17, 2008

R. Byron Bird

This discussion covers mainly the years 1941 to 1961. Before World War II the transport phenomena were discussed in sophomore physics and junior physical chemistry courses, but the material given was not adequate for students in chemical engineering. Furthermore there was no effort made to...

Success and Prospects in Process Systems

Nov 16, 2008

Gregory Stephanopoulos

Process Systems Engineering (PSE) has been at the core of chemical engineering's definition as a discipline since the earliest stages of its inception. Production cost reduction, reduction or elimination of pollutants, and delivery of products at desired specs and amounts, have stimulated an...

Success and Prospects in Thermodynamics

Nov 16, 2008

Peter T Cummings

Accurate thermodynamic models are essential to any chemical engineering endeavor. In this presentation, Cummings reviews some of the more important developments in the history of thermodynamics; from Gibbs and van der Waals in the nineteenth century, to the statistical mechanicians of the twentieth...

Success and Prospects in Transport

Nov 16, 2008

Morton Denn

The study of transport phenomena is an important area of chemical engineering. In many ways it differentiates chemical engineering from other disciplines, such as biomedical and material engineering. In this lecture, Dr. Morton Denn tracks the development of transport in the chemical engineering...

Success and Prospects in Bioengineering

Nov 16, 2008

Harvey Blanch

Chemical engineers have always played an important role in the development of biotechnology. From the first efforts to effectively produce penicillin on a large scale to the newest advances in drug delivery, chemical engineers have been working hand in hand with biologists. In his lecture,...

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