Correctly Calculate the Potential to Emit
Janet Scheier
Determining maximum capacity and ensuring that permit limits are federally enforceable are critical to calculating PTE.
Regulations
Develop a Strategy for Residual Risk
Mary F. McDaniel
Understand the implications of the pending regulations to better address residual risk and to develop an effective communications plan.
Minimize Enforcement Penalties
Jessica L. Idzerda
Identify possible New Source Review/Prevention of Significant Deterioration penalties by conducting an internal audit and disclosing potential violations.
How Can We Improve Air Pollution Control?
Herbert C. McKee
We as a society should keep these lessons in mind as we set future environmental goals, policies, laws and regulations.
Lessons Learned From Inspection 25,000 Upstream Oil and Gas Wells and Associated Plants
Mar 15, 2011
Paul F. Schubert
The inclusion of oil and gas wells sites and associated production facilities in OSHA's Process Safety Management (PSM) regulations stems from a 1998 accident at an oil and gas separation facility that killed four workers. In December 1999, the accident investigation resulted in OSHA rescinding...
New Flare System VOC Regulations & Reduction Control Options
Mar 13, 2011
Keith Wade
As this abstract is written, there will be flare system emission testing in a controlled environment underway that will likely pave the way for new VOC control measures on all flare systems in the US. The TCEQ (Texas Commission on Environmental Quality) sponsored testing held in Q4 2010, will...
Impact of New Industrial Boiler and Process Heater Air Regulations on the Chemical Industry
Mar 13, 2011
Amy Marshall
The US EPA is obligated to develop national emission standards for hazardous air pollutant (NESHAP) for industrial boilers and process heaters. These standards are to be based on the maximum achievable control technology (MACT). EPA promulgated the original industrial Boiler and Process Heater MACT...
Quantitative Models for Assessing MOC Performance
Mar 13, 2011
Rainer Hoff
The safety community, bolstered by the PSM regulations, has emphasized the importance of proper management of change to ensure safe, reliable and economic operation of chemical plants and refineries. Yet, at many sites, the MOC process is often harshly criticized as being "too inefficient", "too...
The UK Experience In Managing Risks Arising From Human Error
Mar 13, 2011
David Embrey
Following the Piper Alpha incident in the North Sea, both offshore and onshore Oil and Gas operators in the UK were required under the COMAH (Control of Major Accident Hazards) regulations to submit a Safety Case setting out how the risks in their installations were to be managed. After many years...
Novel, Synthetic, Tetracycline-Inducible Transcription Regulators for E. Coli
Nov 7, 2010
Katherine G. Volzing
We are designing, constructing and characterizing novel synthetic gene regulators. These regulators range from individual inducible fusion protein and promoter pairs to complex nonlinear regulatory networks. All of the regulators are designed to be compatible in E. coli and to control gene...
Revamp Your Furnace – Enhance Technical & Financial Performance
Mar 23, 2010
Yong Wang
Furnace revamps provide opportunities to enhance new technologies, add feedstock flexibility, increase production capacity, improve efficiency and meet more stringent environmental regulations. With the current economic situation and anticipated environmental requirements, construction of...
Fuel Performance Parameters for Marine Engines
Mar 23, 2010
The regulations for sulfur reduction in marine fuels are impacting the whole spectrum beginning from the production of the fuel in the refineries to the end use in Marine diesel engines. To start with, from 1/1/2010, the European Union regulations call for use of fuel with a maximum of 0.1% sulfur...
Practical Issues with Marginally Explosible Dusts - Evaluating the Real Hazard
Mar 22, 2010
Samuel A. Rodgers
A combustible dust can be non-explosible, marginally explosible or severely explosible. With the exception of a few standards with a quantitative perspective (such as NFPA 68), most safety standards and regulations do not differentiate marginally explosible dusts from severely explosible dusts. As...
Audits, Inspection and Regulation
Apr 29, 2009
David Heller, Dr. Timothy Myers, Lisa Long
In the past few years, we have seen renewed emphasis on PSM through OSHA’s National Emphasis Programs and Homeland Security new Chemical Security’s regulations. This session contains papers that discuss regulatory programs in the U.S. and internationally, and companies strategies for complying with...
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