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Conference Presentations - 2012 Global Congress on Process Safety

Towards Inherently Safer Processes: Alkylation of Isobutane and n-Butene

Apr 3, 2012
Subramanya Nayak
The alkylation production first started in the late 1930s and early 1940s with collaborative efforts by several American companies. Currently, 13 – 15 % of the refined gasoline pool is made up of these C8 alkylates (Albright, 2003). In this study, we have evaluated if it is possible to develop...

Evaluation of Dust Explosion/Fire Hazards During a Process Hazards Analysis [PHA]

Apr 3, 2012
Mayur Patel
Evaluation of Dust Explosion/Fire Hazards during a Process Hazards Analysis [PHA] Mayur Patel DuPont Engineering mayur.patel@ind.dupont.com and S. Dharmavaram DuPont Engineering seshu.dharmavaram@usa.dupont.com Many of the recent dust fire and explosion incidents have shown that PHA teams have...

Process Safety Management Training for New Engineer

Apr 3, 2012
Alberto E. Vignale
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...

Continuing Our Process Safety Management (PSM) Journey: How Time and Technology Have Helped Change the Public's View (A Case Study for Where We Are Today and Where We Can Go Tomorrow)

Apr 3, 2012
Bruce K. Vaughen
This paper briefly explores the history of basic PSM principles, first describing a historical view of how PSM developed into today's PSM Elements. Then this paper covers a proposed direction for PSM's future that may help address the changing nature of the public's view of the chemical industry –...

How to Go From Lesson to Learned: PSM From Engineering to Operations

Apr 3, 2012
Chitram Lutchman
How to go from Lesson to Learned: PSM from Engineering to Operations Presented By: Dr. Chit Lutchman (CSP; CRSP, 1 st Class Power Engineer) PSM and other Human Factor considerations have improved reliability of many operating facilities across many different industries. Similarly, significant...

Critical Alarm Management : Connecting the Dots

Apr 3, 2012
Stephen Gill
In the aftermath of some high profile national security incidents, investigations starting with the catastrophe or near miss and working backwards have shown a clear series of events or warning signs which if recognised may have allowed the incident to be prevented. The security services have...

Gains From Getting near Misses Reported

Apr 3, 2012
Bill Bridges
[An earlier edition of this paper was first presented at the “International Conference and Workshop – Process Safety Incidents,” 2000, organized by the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS)] The need for effective root cause analysis is finally gaining the spotlight in the chemical process...

Explosion Hazards of Multicomponent Combustible Gas Mixtures

Apr 2, 2012
Alfonso F. Ibarreta
Laminar and turbulent premixed flame burning velocities are two parameters that are sometimes needed to evaluate explosion hazards. There is ample information in the literature regarding the burning velocities of most common ignitable gases and vapors in air. Little information, however, is...

When MOC Meets LOPA: A Quantitative Assessment of the Impact of Errors in MOCs

Apr 2, 2012
Rainer Hoff
Layers of Protection Analysis, "LOPA", has become a popular tool for conducting semi-quantitative risk assessments, in the chemical process industries. A key concept is that of "Independent Protection Layers", whereby subsequent layers are intended to mitigate adverse events that were not mitigated...

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