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AIChE's ChemE on Demand is a multi-media digital library containing hundreds on-demand webinars and recorded conference presentations. This convenient resource is designed to meet your needs as a chemical engineer. AIChE professional members are entitled to 6 FREE 'credits', good for content in ChemE on Demand each year. Undergraduate student members get free unlimited access to ALL ChemE On Demand content.

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Key Finance Measures for Successful Projects

AIChE Webinar
Sep 18, 2013
Makarand Joshi

This webinar is designed to help engineers and chemists develop a better understanding of basic accounting and finance concepts. IIt will be of interest to those contemplating getting a business degree as these topics are usually covered in the first required finance and accounting course in the degree program.

Fatal Exposure: Tragedy At DuPont

Apr 4, 2012
Marc G. Sáenz
This investigation by the United States Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) provides unique lessons in process safety. Three incidents occurred over a 33-hour period at the DuPont plant in Belle, WV. The most serious incident occurred on January 23, 2010, when a release of highly...
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Furnace Burner Management Practices within U.S. Ethylene Producers

May 1, 2013
Frank Irving
Furnace Burner Management Practices within U.S. Ethylene Producers A summary of the current working practices and approaches to hazardous event management of the cracking heaters of several US based ethylene producers will be presented. The practices and approaches will be discussed in the context...

Composite Fuels Production for Combustion

May 1, 2013
Adam Duszkiewicz, Harold N. Knickle
ABSTRACT Goal of the Project The primary goal of the project is the creation of composite fuels for combustion processes containing biomass, coal, coal residues, crude oil processing residues, and other combustible material for effective firing in power plants. The project attempts to provide...

Proesa Technology: The Platform to Enable Biomass Based Industry

May 1, 2013
Dario Giordano, Delane Richardson
Mankind is still strongly dependent on fossil fuels. As developing economies continue to grow, concerns are increasing about climate change and the potential economic and political impact of peak oil. To address these issues and reduce its dependency on fossil fuels, the EU has adopted measures to...

Operational ExcellenceEssential for Success in the 21st Century

May 1, 2013
John Mitchell
Operational Excellence — Essential for Success in the 21 st Century By: John S Mitchell johnsmitchell2@gmail.com The term Operational Excellence is increasingly being used to describe the broad objective of an operating enterprise. It has great cachet at the highest executive levels and is being...

Lessons Learned From Fire in Air Supply Ducts

May 1, 2013
Alvin Waller
ABSTRACT Submitted for consideration to the 47 th LPS on Oct 31, 2012 Title: Lessons Learned from Fire in Air Supply Ducts Primary author: Al Waller, Principal Process Safety Engineer, FMC Corporation A significant fire occurred inside the air supply ducts to a drying and milling operation...

FCC Riser Hydrodynamics Improvement Using Simulation Tools

May 1, 2013
Lev Davydov, Reza Mostofi
Past experiences of commercial FCC units indicate that hydrodynamics have a pronounced effect on the riser performance. For example, an increase of lift steam velocity has been shown to result in increased gasoline selectivity in many units. For a large FCC unit in Asia the installation of dual-...

LNG Technology Development at Air Products

May 1, 2013
Yu-Nan Liu
This presentation will trace the beginning of MCR (mixed components refrigerant) and use of Coil Wound Heat Exchanger, from helium recovery to the hybrid C3-MR process to AP-X ® process and variation of it for natural gas liquefaction in baseload LNG plants and other applications, from Air Products...

Improving Reliability & Safety Performance of Solenoid Valves by Stroke Testing

May 1, 2013
Dr. William M. Goble, Julia V. Bukowski, Loren Stewart
Solenoid valves integrated into the design of emergency shutdown valves (EDS) used in industrial process systems can tend to bind, i.e., to become stuck in one position, when not moved for long periods of time. This binding, also known as failure due to excessive stiction, has significant negative...

Effect of Flammable Cloud Treatment On Predicted Blast Loads

May 1, 2013
J. Kelly Thomas, Jihui Geng
Effect of Flammable Cloud Treatment on Predicted Blast Loads J. Kelly Thomas and Jihui Geng Baker Engineering and Risk Consultants 3330 Oakwell Court, Suite 100 San Antonio, TX 78218-3024 (210) 824-5960 KThomas@BakerRisk.com Computational fluid dynamic (CFD) analysis of flammable gas dispersion can...

Petrobras Process Safety Key Performance Indicators Wells and Drilling Activities

May 1, 2013
Felipe Carvalho, Manoela Lopes
An essential element of any improvement program is the measure of existing performance needs, as well as identification of new and future needs. This paper presents Petrobras’ Process Safety KPI's (Key Performance Indicators) for Wells and Drilling activities, created by a committee comprised by...

Blacks Swans, White Swans and Fifty Shades of Grey

May 1, 2013
Jim Conner, John F. Murphy
Last year at the Global Congress for Process Safety we presented a paper entitled, “Beware of the Black Swan: The Limitations of Risk Analysis for Predicting the Extreme Impact of Rare Process Safety Incidents.” The paper discussed the difficulties of predicting black swan events, rare but...

Real-Time Optimization of a Gasoline Run-Down Header Blending Operation

May 1, 2013
Shashi Mistry, Sanjay Sharma, Jim Eshpeter, Craig Mangan
Refiners around the world are continually seeking ways to maximize margin on gasoline production. Optimization of various unit operations and gasoline blending using online blending packages are commonly employed. However, an area of opportunity that is less commonly exploited is the optimization...

Large Eddy Simulation - Based Mixing Tee Analysis and Comparison with in-Service Failure Data

May 1, 2013
David J. Dewees, Michael F.P. Bifano, Seetha Ramudu Kummari
The mixing process of hot and cold fluids in a tee junction is chaotic (turbulent) in nature and can result in high cycle thermal fatigue of the junction. This random quasi steady state phenomenon of hot and cold shocks can lead to fatigue cracks and possible leakage, causing a structural integrity...

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