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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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Atmospheric Impacts of Expanded Natural Gas Use

AIChE Webinar
Aug 21, 2013
David Allen
This presentation focuses on air quality impacts associated with hydraulic fracturing. Data and modeling on emissions and impacts of photochemically active air pollutants, toxic air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions are described.

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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PSM Challenge for Unregulated Upstream Facilities

May 1, 2013
Kristin D. Norton
Upstream oil and gas facilities are typically exempt from the OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM) standard; however, in light of recent regulatory scrutiny on the safety of upstream operations, many operating companies have extended their safety management programs to their upstream facilities...

Development of Heat Exchangers for Use As Replacement Plates

Apr 30, 2013
Enrique Vasquez Ramirez, G. T. Polley
Development of Heat Exchangers for Use as Replacement Plates In Distillation Columns: Proof of Concept and Collection of Design Information 2 Graham Thomas Polley, 1 Edgar Enrique Vzquez Ramrez 1 Antonio Alberto Aguilar Moreno, 1 Jose Manuel Riesco vila, 1 Carlos Omar Ros Orozco. 1 Departamento de...

A Focus on Fire Fundamentals Including Emergency Response Training at the National Fire Agency in Taiwan

Apr 30, 2013
Arcady A. Kossoy, Chi-Min Shu, Jack, Huan-Chang Hsiao, Ronald J. Willey, Roy E. Sanders
This article reflects on process safety fundamentals of fires and explosions for the benefit of new professionals entering the field. It provides a brief review of fire fundamentals such as the fire triangle and the respect that must be paid to the unknown ignition source. Various control methods...

Increasing the Agility of Process Safety Management Systems

Apr 30, 2013
Brian D. Rains
The Process Industry is constantly adapting to change. High prices of raw materials, new materials for construction, and advances in technology permit manufacturers to test new boundaries and explore new avenues. However, with this new direction operational risk increases. In order to cope with...

The Influence of Hydrophilic Properties on Foamy Three Phase Systems

Apr 30, 2013
Henrik Leimeister, Jrg Steinbach
In different industrial fields amphiphile components are used. These components potentially lead to the formation of foams. Normally those foams are not desired and are usually avoided. But in setups like a bubble column or during flash evaporation it is not uncommon that limitations are reached...

Non-Invasive Closed Loop Step Testing Technology for MPC Applications

Apr 30, 2013
Hong Zhao, John Campbell, Michael Harmse, Quinn Zheng
Multivariable Predictive Control (MPC) is the most widely used advanced process control technology in the process industries. For instance, there are more than 6,000 DMCplus based applications currently in service worldwide. A common and challenging problem is that MPC control performance degrades...

Baha Blanca, Argentina. Explosin Catastrfica De Polvo En Un Silo

Apr 30, 2013
Nestor H. Sposito
El 13 de marzo de 1985 a las 0.15 horas un incendio en el puerto dio inicio a uno de los accidentes más grandes ocurridos en la República Argentina. Veintidós personas perdieron su vida como cosecuencia del incendio y posterior explosión. El accidente originó el estallido del Elevador 5 de la ex...

Energy and Capital Savings in DME Process Design and Integration

Apr 30, 2013
Elmahboub Edreder, Mansour Emtir
In recent years, dimethyl ether (DME) is widely used as a feed for the synthesis of chemicals including acetic acid and its esters and as a hydrogen source for fuel cells. The major process for the production of DME on an industrial scale comprises dehydration of methanol using an acidic...

Can Fire Suppressants Promote Ignition? A Study Of HFC-125 and HFC-227

Apr 30, 2013
Carmen H. Osorio, Eric L. Petersen, M. Sam Mannan
C 2 HF 5 (HFC-125,) and C 3 HF 7 (HFC-227ea or FM-200) have gained considerable acceptance in the field of fire protection, especially after the restriction of several ozone-depleting substances under the Montreal Protocol. These two substitutes are currently included in the list of the Significant...

Quality Assurance and Quality Control of Pressure Relief Studies

Apr 30, 2013
Subhash Kale
This work describes the Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC) process for pressure relief studies. Definitions are given for the terminology used for the QA/QC process of pressure relief system studies. A sample workflow of a typical pressure relief system analysis is given. Different...

Process Safety Information Management - It Is More Than You Probably Think

Apr 30, 2013
Mason Martin, Patrick Nonhof
Many businesses continue to struggle with managing the expectations of the Process Safety Management standard--even twenty years after the rule was first promulgated. In particular, the sheer enormity of Process Safety Information (PSI) continues to overwhelm many organizations. PSI is a...

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