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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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Continuous Data Mining to Sustain Advanced Process Control and Process Capability

Apr 30, 2013
John Antanies
Multiple factors can affect the performance of advanced controls. These may be due to changes associated with the instrumentation, regulatory controls, or the process itself. If not detected and diagnosed, the effect can be a partial loss of benefits, or in the worst case, the complete loss of...

Condensate Stabilization: How to Get the Most for Your Money

Apr 30, 2013
John Rizopoulos, Mahdi Nouri
Condensate stabilization is one of the common process units in the gas processing world. The principle considerations affecting the performance of the plant when debottlenecking or designing new condensate stabilization units are the process configurations, stabilized condensate quality, energy...

Some Lessons Learned When Communicating with Neighboring Communities

Apr 30, 2013
Richard N Knowles, Ph.D.
This paper combines 35 years of direct plant managerial experience on processes handling hazardous materials and energies with a subsequent decade of personal reflection to understand how the leadership roles evolved from one of sleepless nights worrying about the plant into one where sleep came...

World Scale Boil-off Gas Reliquefaction

Apr 30, 2013
Heinz C. Bauer
Boil-off gas reliquefaction has become an industry standard for many LNG carriers, which no longer use gas as fuel for steam boilers, but tap others energy sources to generate power for propulsion. Well known examples are the ships of the Q-Flex and Q-Max class. Most of these vessels use simple...

Process Safety: Uniandes Vision From the Latin-American Context

Apr 30, 2013
Felipe Munoz, German E. Gomez, Jaime E. Cadena
Process Safety: Uniandes vision from the Latin-American context J. Cadena 1 , G. Gómez 2 , F. Munoz 3 Chemical Engineering Department, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia 1 je.cadena21@uniandes.edu.co 2 ge.gomez59@uniandes.edu.co 3 fmunoz@uniandes.edu.co When performing a search about...

Using Assessments to Improve Process Safety Culture

Apr 30, 2013
Delmar "Trey" Morrison, Russell A. Ogle, Sean J. Dee
It is generally accepted that companies managing highly hazardous chemicals require a strong process safety culture and process safety management systems to minimize process safety incidents. These aspects of the organization are embodied in conduct of operations and operational discipline (COO/OD...

A Systematic Approach to Relief System Evaluation

Apr 30, 2013
Georges Melhem
Managing the lifecycle of relief and flare systems data is complex and fraught with challenges and risks, whether the work is performed internally or contracted out. Relief and flare systems evaluations require mechanical and process data collection, field verification, up to date heat and material...

Setting the Revamp Basis: What Is Current Operation?

Apr 30, 2013
Andrew W. Sloley
A revamp aims to modify a plant to meet some new combination of capacity, feed, product, safety or regulatory requirements. The starting point on any revamp is the current plant operation. Often, this is poorly understood. Plant mythology may have grown up over years. This mythology hides both...

Measuring Process Safety Implementation through Assessments and Audits

Apr 30, 2013
Busari Jabar
PETRONAS, the national oil company of Malaysia was formed in 1974. Since then, it has transformed into a fully integrated multi-national Oil and Gas company which is operating in 33 countries. A structured HSE Management System (HSEMS)had been established and implemented across the Group in 1999...

Process Safety As a Career Foundation

Apr 30, 2013
Andrew Stein, Jason F. White
The foundation of one’s profession can have an exponential effect on the lifelong development of their careers. There may be no stronger launching point than the lessons learned as a young engineer specializing in process safety. A young engineer building a foundation on process safety may have the...

Management Discipline: Defining a Process Safety Strategy

Apr 30, 2013
Jerry Forest
Management Discipline: Defining a Process Safety Strategy Jerry J. Forest - Global Process Safety Manager, Celanese jerry.forest@celanese.com Abstract We often associate operational discipline with conduct of operations and define discipline as the tools to achieve repeatable results. While...

Safety Controls, Alarms, and Interlocks As IPLs

Apr 30, 2013
Dr. Angela E. Summers
Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA) involves the analysis of the sequence of events leading to an identified scenario. This analysis yields an understanding of the role that automation plays in detecting and responding to each scenario. Consequently, LOPA facilitates the identification of safety...

Influence of Liquid and Vapourized Solvents On Explosibility of Pharmaceutical Excipient Dusts

Apr 30, 2013
Ashok G. Dastidar, Faisal I. Khan, Kalie Symington, Meftah Abuswer, Nur Hossain, Paul R. Amyotte, Rolf K. Eckhoff, Vincent Boilard
Hybrid mixture explosion research is typically conducted with three possible approaches: (i) gaseous solvent at room temperature existing in the combustion atmosphere prior to dust dispersal, (ii) liquid solvent at room temperature requiring flashing-off for admixture to the combustion atmosphere...

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