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  • Assessing Thermal Stability - the Challenge of Powders

    Conference Presentation
    AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
    March 31, 2014
    Assessing the thermal stability of process materials and mixtures is an essential step in understanding the process safety profile of a process. Many...

  • Automation Solutions for Processing Light Tight (Shale) Oil

    Conference Presentation
    AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
    April 2, 2014
    Opportunity crudes from shale are more readily available in North America with incentives on cost. However, these typically lighter crude oils don’t...

  • Benefits of Novel Cooling Water Chemicals on Refinery ...

    Conference Presentation
    AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
    March 27, 2017
    Some 35 years ago phosphate and zinc based programs emerged as the cooling water treatment technology of choice when the industry was strongly...

  • Blast Resistant Design and Retrofit of Buildings at ...

    Conference Presentation
    AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
    April 28, 2015
    Onshore buildings in refineries and petrochemical facilities, especially those housing personnel, need to be safe to withstand the effects of...

  • Butadiene Popcorn Polymer: Formation Mechanism and ...

    Conference Presentation
    AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
    April 22, 2021
    In olefin production, a porous crosslinked polymer like a “popcorn” forms occasionally in the apparatus due to...

  • C2 Splitter Retray and Control Improvement

    Conference Presentation
    AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
    April 1, 2014
    As part of an ethylene production expansion project, C2 splitter trays were restructured in the plant’s turnaround in 2012. This change made a...

  • Case Study on SMALL-Scale LNG Facility Expansion

    Conference Presentation
    AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
    April 28, 2015
    With the influx of natural gas production throughout the United States, the small-scale LNG market is growing at a rapid pace. One option to take...

  • Chemical Incompatibility Matrices

    Conference Presentation
    AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
    April 29, 2015
    Chemical Incompatibility Matrices Michelle R. Murphy and Surendra K. Singh ioKinetic, LLC 95 Stiles Road, Salem, New Hampshire 03079, USA murphy@...

  • Cold Piping Event during New Plant Startup:Do You Have All ...

    Conference Presentation
    AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
    April 20, 2021
    As a part of the new 500 kta ethylene plant constructed for Shintech in Plaquemine, LA, the operations team with support from the project team and...