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  • A Frequency Based Approach to Hole Size Selection for ...

    Conference Presentation
    AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
    March 15, 2011
    When performing a consequence based facility siting study, it is often necessary to choose a criteria for the maximum credible hole size that is the...

  • API Standard 521: New Alternative Method to Evaluate Fire ...

    Conference Presentation
    AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
    April 30, 2013
    The upcoming 6th edition of API Standard 521 will include an alternative, analytical method to evaluate fire exposure of vessels. The experimental...

  • Applications of Cause-Consequence Diagrams in Operational ...

    Conference Presentation
    AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
    April 3, 2012
    Learning Outcomes: Understand the importance of hazard evaluation and risk assessment in the context of and safety and environmental management...

  • Assessing the Hazard of Marginally Explosible Dusts

    Conference Presentation
    AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
    April 30, 2013
    With the current focus on combustible dust hazards in industry, an increasing number of dusts are being tested by facilities to determine their...

  • Barrier Diagram (bow tie) Quality Issues for Operating ...

    Conference Presentation
    AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
    April 29, 2013
    Barrier diagrams (bow ties) are rapidly growing in use in both the onshore and offshore process safety worlds. They are amongst the most powerful...

  • Dust Explosion

    Archived Webinar
    Jun 24, 2009
    Catastrophic dust explosions in 2003 and 2008 have placed an increased emphasis on the prevention and mitigation of dust explosions. In response to these incidents and subsequent CSB recommendations...

  • Global and Local QSPR Models to Predict the Impact ...

    Conference Presentation
    AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
    April 2, 2012
    New quantitative structure property relationships (QSPR) have been developed to predict accurately the impact sensitivity of nitro compounds from...