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MONDAY, APRIL 2

7:00 AM

Complimentary Breakfast

8:00 AM

2012 AIChE Spring Meeting and 8th GCPS Opening Plenary Session: June C. Wispelwey, AIChE Executive Director and David A. Rosenthal, AIChE President

8:30 AM

Keynote Address: “Process Safety and Corporate Responsibility” by Michael J. Dolan, Senior Vice President, ExxonMobil Corporation

Location: General Assembly Theater B

9:15 AM

Break

9:40 AM

 8th GCPS Welcoming Plenary Session

Location: General Assembly Theater B

8th GCPS Introduction and Welcome: Scott Berger (Executive Director, CCPS) and Trey Morrison (GCPS Chair)

Symposia Introductions: Jatin Shah (CCPS Chair), Mike Moosemiller (LPS Chair), and Jim Willis (PPSS Chair)

Presentation of William H. Doyle Award LPS Best Paper Award and PPSS Best Paper Award

 

14th Process Plant Safety Symposium (PPSS)

27th Center for Chemical Process Safety International Conference (CCPS)

46th Annual Loss Prevention Symposium (LPS)

Process Safety Management Mentoring (PSM2)

Safety of Human Systems

 

Session #13: Mechanical Integrity – Critical Line of Defense

Session #10: Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment

Session #9: Fire and Explosion Hazards

Session #11: Invited Speakers Series – Design

Session #12: Management of Change

Location: 370

Location: 360

Location: 361

Location: 371 B/E

Location: 371 A/D

Co-Chairs: Russ Davis, Andrew Morey

Co-Chairs: Mike Broadribb, Qingsheng Wang

Co-Chairs: Trey Morrison, Farzin Sabet

Co-Chairs: Carlos A. Barrera, Steven D. Emerson

Chair: Bill Matthews

10:30 AM

Prediction of Corrosion in Pipes (Sally S. Nicola)

“Well the Team Has Met and Completed the PHA….Now What?” (Dewana Tarpley)

Flammability Limits of Hydrogen and Its Mixtures with Hydrocarbons In Air at Atmospheric and Sub-Atmospheric Pressures (Hai Le)

Design – PSM Overview (Dr. M. Sam Mannan)

When MOC Meets LOPA: A Quantitative Assessment of the Impact of Errors in MOCs (Rainer Hoff)

11:00 AM

Half a Century of Olefin Plant Accidents: The Role of Mechanical Integrity (Sebastian Diaz)

Structure of Process Safety in the Operating Plants – Leaders of Management and Analysis of Risks and Impacts (Lueci Vasconcelos do Vale)

New Correlations for Predicting Flammability Limits of Pure Materials and Mixtures (Qingsheng Wang)

Design – Educating the Next Generation of PSM Professionals (Dr. Daniel Crowl)

Management of Change: Quality Implementation and Performance (Yasser Almowalad)

11:30 AM

Integrity Inspection of In-Plant Underground Piping (Everett Johnson)

Are Your Credits Worthy? (Lisa Long)

Inert Gas Dilution Effect on Fuel Mixture Flammability (Fuman Zhao)

Design – Executive Management and PSM (Dennis C. Hendershot)

Retired and Dangerous (Robert F. Wasileski III)

12:00 PM

Luncheon with Speaker: Mr. Patrick F. Loughlin, Vice President of Environment Health & Safety, Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.

 

Session #18: The Future of Process Safety

Session #14: Emergency Preparedness & Response

Session #17: Material Hazard Characteristics

Session #16: Invited Speakers Series – Application

Session #15: Human Factors – Reducing the Likelihood of Human Errors

Location: 370

Location: 360

Location: 361

Location: 371 B/E

Location: 371 A/D

Co-Chairs: Philip M. Myers, Karen Study

Co-Chairs: Robert F. Wasileski III, Qingsheng Wang

Co-Chairs: Jean-Paul Lacoursiere, Chad Mashuga

Co-Chairs: Steven D. Emerson, Carlos A. Barrera

Co-Chairs: John Wincek, Eric Freiburger

1:30 PM

New Directions for Process Safety Management (Donald Holmstrom)

Inter-Linkages Between Process Safety and APELL for Accident Prevention and Preparedness (Nestor H. Sposito)

A Mechanistic and Experimental Study of the Diethyl Ether Oxidation (Carlo Adamo)

Applying PSM at a Major US Chemical Company (Peter N. Lodal)

Develop a Human Performance Modeling System for Process Safety Operations (Emrah  Harputlu)

2:00 PM

Improving the Performance of Established PSM Programs (James A. Klein)

How to Effectively Apply Incident Command System (ICS) to Emergency Response (Qingsheng Wang)

Phase Behavior of Poly-Substituted Mono-Nitrated Aromatic Compounds (William Pittman)

Implementation of a Highly Toxic Materials Management Program (Ravi Ramaswamy)

Look Ma No Faceplates: Benefits of In Situ Modification of Set Point and Output (Dustin Beebe)

2:30 PM

Leveraging PSM to Implement Key Elements of a SIS Program (Dave Grattan)

Safety Systems Impairements and the need to Mange Peak Risk (David K. Lewis) 

Global and Local QSPR Models to Predict the Impact Sensitivity of Nitro Compounds (Guillaume Fayet)

Applying MOC as Integral Part of Process Safety Management (Roy E. Sanders)

Improving Conduct of Operations Using Best Practice Tools From Operating, Engineering, and Management Discipline (Jerry Forest)

3:00 PM

Coffee and Networking Break

 

Session #44: The Future of Process Safety 2

Session #40: Back to Basics

Session #43: Material Hazard Characteristics 2

Session #42: Invited Speakers Series – Learning

Session #41: Human Factors – Reducing the Likelihood of Human Errors 2

Location: 370

Location: 360

Location: 361

Location: 371 B/E

Location: 371 A/D

Co-Chairs: Philip M. Myers, Karen Study

Co-Chairs: Jeff Fox, Stanley A. Urbanik

Co-Chairs: Jean-Paul Lacoursiere, Chad Mashuga

Chairs: Steven D. Emerson

Co-Chairs: John Wincek, Eric Freiburger

3:30 PM

Assimilating Design Formulation and Design Review Into a HAZOP (Steven T. Maher)

Ensuring HAZOP Quality (Sanjeev Saraf)

Thermal Safety of Ionic Liquids (Ryan J. Hart)

Learning from Major CSB Investigations (John Bresland)

Human Factors and Their Optimization (William Bridges)

4:00 PM

The US Chemical Safety Board and Inherently Safer Technology (Manuel R. Gomez)

Simplified PSM for Smaller Non-Regulated Sites: Development History, Program Overview & Recommendations (Colin S. Howat III)

A Review of IST Feasibility with the Supply Chain of Toxic Indutstrial Chemicals(David A. Moore)

Learning from an Industrial Chemical Perspective (Jack McCavit)

Identifying Significant Human Factors in Quantitative Risk Assessments (George Adams)

4:30 PM

Deriving Major Accident Failure Frequencies with a Storybuilder Analysis of Reportable Accidents (Henk Jan Manuel)

Avoiding Common PHA Mistakes (Glenn Young)

The CCPS Reactivity Evaluation Software Tool (Edward M. Davis)

Learning from OSHA Investigations of PSM - Regulated Operations (Mike Marshall)

Social HAZOP At Oil Refine Industry (Salvador Ávila Filho)

TUESDAY, APRIL 3

 

14th Process Plant Safety Symposium (PPSS)

27th Center for Chemical Process Safety International Conference (CCPS)

46th Annual Loss Prevention Symposium (LPS)

Process Safety Management Mentoring (PSM2)

Process Safety of Small Scale Production

 

Session #48: Regulatory Impacts

Session #46: How to go from “Lesson” to “Learned”: PSM from Engineering to Operations

Session #45: Fire and Explosions Hazards 2

Session #47: Process Safety at a Glance

Session #49: The PSM Challenge for Smaller Companies

Location: 370

Location: 360

Location: 361

Location: 371 B/E

Location: 371 A/D

Co-Chairs: Victor H. Edwards, Jack Chosnek

Co-Chairs: Brook Vickery, Christie A. Arseneau

Co-Chairs: Trey Morrison, Farzin Sabet

Co-Chairs: Steven D. Emerson, Carlos Barrera

Co-Chairs: Colin S. Howat III, Chad Schaffer

8:00 AM

Future Impact of Regulation on Small and Medium Chemical Companies (Jason Laws)

Applications of Cause-Consequence Diagrams in Operational Risk Assessment (Yaneira Saud)

BLEVE Overpressure: Small Scale Experiments and Multi-Scale Comparison with Literature Survey of Blast Wave Modeling (Delphine Laboureur)

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) (Bruce K. Vaughen)

A Pre-Plan for Process Safety Management (Sheryl Goddard)

8:30 AM

Process Plant Safety: An Attorney's Perspective on Key Legal and Regulatory Issues (Lynn L. Bergeson)

Operational Group for Process Safety (Maria Clara Saraiva)

Propagation of a Vapor Cloud Detonation from an Congested Into An Uncongested Area – Demonstration Test and Impact on Blast Load Prediction (J. Kelly Thomas)

Process Safety Management Training for New Engineer (Alberto E. Vignale)

Safety Management System Challenges for Small Companies (Ester Brawley)

9:00 AM

Process Safety Management Regulation in the United States: Have We Learned the Lessons of Bhopal? (Michael Wright)

How to Go From “Lesson” to “Learned”: PSM From Engineering to Operations (Chitram Lutchman)

Selection of Appropriate Ignition Models for Fire and Explosion Assessments (Anna Qiao)

The Importance of Safety Design On New Refineries (Laurence Siqueira)

Why Smaller Companies Struggle with Process Safety (John Herber)

9:30 AM

 Coffee and Networking Break

 

Session #73: Regulatory Impacts 2

Session #70: How to go from “Lesson” to “Learned”: Focus on Leadership Behaviors

Session #72: Refinery Safety Relation to Chemical Process Safety

Session #71: Process Hazards Analysis

Session #74: The PSM Challenge for Smaller Companies 2

Location: 370

Location: 360

Location: 361

Location: 371 B/E

Location: 371 A/D

Co-Chairs: Victor H. Edwards, Jack Chosnek

Co-Chairs: Christie A. Arseneau, Brook Vickery

Co-Chairs: Lisa Long, John Murphy

Co-Chairs: Steven D. Emerson, Carlos A. Barrera

Co-Chairs: Colin S. Howat III, Chad Schaffer

10:15 AM

Where Is the Process Risk Mitigation? RAGAGEP, OSHA Combustible Dust NEP and General Duty Clause Violations (Colin S. Howat III)

Go Out and Lead on Process Safety Management

(David Snowball)

Towards Inherently Safer Processes: Alkylation of Isobutane and n-Butene (Subramanya Nayak)

Comparing PHA Review Techniques – A Case History on Review Meeting Dynamics and Missed Hazards (Rosalynn MacGregor)

Process Safety – Management or Leadership? (Charles J. King)

10:45 AM

Process Safety Regulations –Blessing or Curse? (James R. Thompson)

PSM ≠ Process Safety Leadership: Practical Actions that Set PS Leadership Apart (Dawn Wurst)

Auto Refrigeration and Metal Embrittlement (Tys Koerts)

The Structured What If/Checklist – A New Twist On An Old Approach (C. Curtis Clements)

Streamlining PHAs with Pre-Population, Pre-Work, and Creativity (Judy Perry)

11:15 AM

Bridging SEMS Between the Owner, Operator, and Contractor (Ester Brawley)

Taking a Risk for Safety (Ian Sutton)

The Benefits of a Risk-Based Approach to Facility Siting (Neil Prophet)

Practical Approach to Vendor Package HAZOP Studies and Preparing the Package Vendor for the Ordeal (Steven T. Maher)

Use PFFM Instead of HAZOP (Rosalynn MacGregor)

11:45 AM

Luncheon with Speaker: Ms. Jessie Hill Roberson, Vice Chairman, Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board – “Process Safety at U.S. Defense Nuclear Facilities”

 

Session #78: Learning From Incidents and Near Misses – Understanding History to Improve the Future

Session #76: Great PSM: What Will It Look Like and Feel Like?

Session #75: Combustible Dust Hazards, Research and Implementation

Session #80: Things Every Plant Engineer Should Know about Process Safety

Session #79: Pilot Plant, Small-Scale Production, and Laboratory Safety

Location: 370

Location: 360

Location: 361

Location: 371 B/E

Location: 371 A/D

Co-Chairs: John W. Champion, Don Abrahamson

Co-Chairs: Dawn Wurst, Jack McCavit

Co-Chairs: Dr. Erdem A. Ural, Dr. M. Sam Mannan

Co-Chairs: Bruce K. Vaughen, James A. Klein

Co-Chairs: Peter N. Lodal, Ronald J. Willey

1:30 PM

Gains From Getting Near Misses Reported (Bill Bridges)

Panel Discussion with John Bresland, Member and Former Chairman, U.S. Chemical Safety Board; Ron Rife, Global Process Safety Manager,ExxonMobil;     Scott Berger, Executive Director of CCPS;  Dan Crowl, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Michigan Technological University

Evaluation of Dust Explosion/Fire Hazards During a Process Hazards Analysis [PHA] (Mayur Patel)

Case Histories on Inherent Safety – Risk Reduction Amid Risk Aversion (David A. Moore)

Maintain Safety Excellence in Laboratory Test Facilities (Amy Theis)

2:00 PM

Process Safety Near Misses in Dow Chemical: A Proactive Program to Improve Process Safety Performance (Luiz Zacharias)

Effect of Particle Shape and Size Distribution on Combustible Dust Explosibility (Ashok G. Dastida)

The PSV That Did Not Fail. Misconceptions about PSVs (Emmanuelle Hagey)

Lab-HIRA: Hazard Identification and Risk Analysis for Chemical Research Laboratories (David Leggett)

2:30 PM

One Company's Near Miss Program – Successes, Learning, and Improvements (Shakeel Kadri)

Controlling Mechanisms of Dust Layer Ignition and Flame Propagation in Dust Clouds (Ali S. Rangwala)

An Introduction to Assessing Process Hazards (Seshu Dharmavaram)

Relief Design for Laboratories and Pilot Plants (Jennifer Mize)

3:00 PM

Coffee and Networking Break

 

Session #100: Learning From Incidents and Near Misses – Understanding History to Improve the Future 2

Session #98: Alarm Management

Session #99: Combustible Dust Hazards, Research and Implementation 2

Session #102: Things Every Plant Engineer Should Know about Process Safety 2

Session #101: Pilot Plant, Small-Scale Production, and Laboratory Safety 2

Location: 370

Location: 360

Location: 361

Location: 371 B/E

Location: 371 A/D

Co-Chairs: John W. Champion, Don Abrahamson

Co-Chairs: Tim Murphy, Sara Saxena

Co-Chairs: Dr. Erdem A. Ural, Dr. M. Sam Mannan

Co-Chairs: James A. Klein, Bruce K. Vaughen

Co-Chairs: Peter N. Lodal, Ronald J. Willey

3:30 PM

Correlating Process Safety Leading Indicators with Performance (Jerry Forest)

The Connection of Peak Alarm Rates to Plant Incidents and What You Can Do to Minimize (Dustin Beebe)

Effect of Electrostatic Charging of Dry Combustible Particulates on Fires and Explosions (Konanur Manjunath)

Case Histories and Technology Innovations for Storage Tank Loss Prevention (Szu-ying Huang)

Identification of Process Hazards in Laboratories and Pilot Plants (Christine Browning)

4:00 PM

Management System Relevance in Achieving Desired Process Safety Performance (John Remy)

Critical Alarm Management: Connecting the Dots (Stephen Gill)

An Update On Combustible Dust Standards (Dr. Erdem A. Ural)

Reaction Calorimetry for Energetic Materials and Process Safety (F. L. WU)

Challenges in Applying PSM to Production Pilot Plants & Laboratories (Bruce D. Bullough)

4:30 PM

Quality Problems As Process Safety Warning Signs (John Herber)

Using Alarms As a Layer of Protection (Todd Stauffer)

Fire From Iron (Marc G. Sáenz)

Tutorial on Combustible Dust (Timothy J. Myers)

Investigation and Corrective Actions After An Internal Air Compressor Fire (Paul McAllister)

5:00 PM

AIChE & GCPS Poster Session and Cocktail Reception, Co-Chairs: Jim Thompson and Steven Zhang 

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4

 

 

14th Process Plant Safety Symposium (PPSS)

27th Center for Chemical Process Safety International Conference (CCPS)

46th Annual Loss Prevention Symposium (LPS)

Process Safety Management Mentoring (PSM2)

International Perspectives on Process Safety

 

 

Session #111: Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA)

Session #112: Societal Risk Criteria

Session #109: Fire and Explosions Hazards 3

Session #113: The Management of Process Safety

Session # 110: International Perspectives on Process Safety – Latin America – Presented in Portuguese

Session #128: International Perspectives on Process Safety – China – Presented in English

Location: 370

Location: 360

Location: 361

Location: 371 B/E

Location: 371 A/D

Location: 362 D

Co-Chairs: Doug Ferguson, Geoffrey Barnard

Co-Chairs: Eric Freiburger, Samantha Scruggs

Co-Chairs: Trey Morrison, Farzin Sabet

Chairs: Carlos A. Barrera

Co-Chairs: Milton Lacerda, Americo Diniz

Co-Chairs: Yi Liu, Dongfeng Zhao

8:00 AM

Impact of “Guidelines for Independent Protection Layers and Initiating Events” (J. Wayne Chastain)

Understanding and Developing Quantitative Risk Criteria (Jatin Shah)

Modeling of Underground Hydrogen Pipelines (Elizabeth Lutostansky)

Process Safety Management Plus or Minus 20 Years – What I Wish I'd Known 20 Years Ago and What We Can't Wait Another 20 Years to Learn (Alan C. Brackey)

Methodology for Evaluation of Management of Safety Barriers for Major Hazard Accidents (Mariana  B. Bardy)

Process Safety Status in China (Dongfeng Zhao)

8:30 AM

Using LOPA to Establish SILs for Power Outage Protection (Carlos A. Barrera)

International Comparison on the Application of Societal Risk Criteria (Robin Pitblado)

Pilot Testing of Fire Protection in Extremely Corrosive Industrial Duct Environments (Paul Su)

Major Turnaround in An Olefins Plant: A Process Safety Point of View (Pablo Ricardo Barrera)

Structure of Process Safety in the Operating Plants – Leaders of Management and Analysis of Risks and Impacts (Lueci Vasconcelos do Vale)

The Optimum Design of LNG Tank Farm Layout (Yifei Meng)

9:00 AM

Using the Integrated Hazard and Operability Study (HAZOP) Study / Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) Methodology as a Value Engineering Tool (Kristin D. Norton)

Societal Risk Criteria and Pipelines (Joan M. Schork)

Explosions in Transformer and Circuit-Breaker Tanks Due to Arcing Events (Timothy L. Morse)

Process Safety Management Mentoring: Subjects to Convey and the Methods for Conveying (Clyde W. Young)

The Importance of Safety Design on New Refineries (Laurence Siqueira)

Study on Performance-Based Safety Spacing Between Ultra-Large Oil Tanks (Yifei Meng )

9:30 AM

Coffee and Networking Break

 

Session #135: Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) 2

Session #136: Societal Risk Criteria 2

Session #133: Facility Siting

Session #132: Case Studies

Session #134: International Perspectives on Process Safety – Latin America – Presented in Spanish

Session #128 International Perspectives on Process Safety – China – Presented in English (Continued)

Location: 370

Location: 360

Location: 361

Location: 371 B/E

Location: 371 A/D

Location: 362 D

Co-Chairs: Doug Ferguson, Geoffrey Barnard

Co-Chairs: Eric Freiburger, Samantha Scruggs

Co-Chairs: Cheryl Grounds, Samuel A. Rodgers

Chair: Carlos A. Barrera

Co-Chairs: Alberto E. Vignale, Felipe Munoz

Co-Chairs: Dongfeng Zhao, Yi Liu

10:15 AM

Proven in Use (What's the Quality of Your Data) (Harold W. Thomas)

Managing Societal Risk by Considering Simultaneous Operations Early in Project Development (Jim Salter)

“Guidelines for Evaluating Plant Buildings for Fire, Explosion, and Toxic Releases – 2nd Edition” (R. Wayne Garland)

Two Incompetent Workers; Too Close for Comfort – Part 1 (Mike Broadribb)

Process Safety Management Training for New Engineers (Alberto E. Vignale)

Lessons learned from Dalian Tank Farm Accident (Ming Chen)

10:45 AM

Beware of the Black Swan (John Murphy)

Applying Inherently Safer Technology and Safer Design Strategies to Reduce Societal Risk in the Chemical Supply Chain (George Famini)

Damage Level Matrix and Damage Curves for Buildings in Refineries and Petrochemical Facilities (Mehmet C. Ozbey)

The Contribution of Automation Failure to Incidents (Dr. Angela E. Summers)

Inter-linkages between Process Safety and APELL for Accident Prevention (Nestor H. Sposito)

Analysis of the Transfer and Distribution of Sulfur in the Typical Refinery (Li Shi)

11:15 AM

More LOPA Misapplied: Common Errors and How to Avoid Them (Karen Study)

Inherently Safer Technology Implementation – Risk Reduction and Risk Shifting (Iclal Atay)

Enhancing Fire Risk Evaluations of Offshore Platforms Using Finite Element Analysis (Morgan Reed)

How to Safely Operate Multifunctional Pilot Plants – A Case Study At the Dow Chemical Co (Luiz Zacharias)

Methodology for Uncertainty Reduction for FDS Simulations to Obtain Refined Results for Performance-Based Design (Jaime E. Cadena)

HAZID and Risk Assessment on Ultra-Large Crude Oil Tank (Fabo Yin)

11:45 AM

Luncheon with Speaker: Dr. TJ Larkin, President, Larkin Consulting – “Safety Communication’s 3 Big Mistakes: Too Much, Too Complex, Not Useable”

 

Session #147: Case Histories and Lessons Learned – Joint Session

Location: General Assembly Theater B

Co-Chairs: Henry L. Febo, Katie Kollhoff, Don Connolley

1:30 PM

On the Catastrophic Explosion of the AZF Plant in Toulouse – September 21, 2001 (Georges Guiochon)

2:00 PM

Flash Fire From a Hot Combustible Liquid (Russell A. Ogle)

2:30 PM

Characteristics of the Vapour Cloud Explosion Incident At the IOC Terminal in Jaipur, 29th October 2009 (D. Michael Johnson)

3:00 PM

Break

3:15 PM

Fatal Exposure: Tragedy At DuPont (Marc G. Sáenz)

3:45 PM

Dust Explosions: Case Study of Dryer Explosions and Poor Explosion Vent Design (Scott G. Davis)

4:15 PM

Deepwater Horizon Incident and Response: Applying the Learning (Steven Flynn)

4:45 PM

GCPS Concluding Remarks