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April 2012

Applications of Cause-Consequence Diagrams in Operational Risk Assessment

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...

Using Alarms As a Layer of Protection

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 3, 2012
Alarms and operator response are one of the first layers of protection in preventing a plant upset from escalating into a hazardous event. This...

Practical Process Integration Retrofit Part 3. Path Analysis

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 3, 2012
Practical Process Integration Retrofit Part 3. Path Analysis G.T.Polley The concept of transferring heat along paths was first suggested by Dhole [1...

Streamlining PHAs with Pre-Population, Pre-Work, and Creativity

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 3, 2012
This presentation and paper will focus on how PHAs can be conducted using a minimal amount of resources, while still maintaining high quality results...

Towards Inherently Safer Processes: Alkylation of Isobutane and n-Butene

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 3, 2012
The alkylation production first started in the late 1930s and early 1940s with collaborative efforts by several American companies. Currently, 13 –...

Operator Training Simulators - Nova Chemicals' Experience for Training, Certification, and Other Applications

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 3, 2012
The Nova Chemicals Site located in Joffre, AB Canada has numerous gas-cracking olefins units as well as down-stream polyolefins processing plants...

Cracking Furnace Gasket Selection, A Key Factor in Furnace Life Extension

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 3, 2012
Flanges on ethylene cracking furnaces are necessary for proper maintenance, and offer specific challenges in terms of leakage avoidance and safety...

Equipment Life Extension Using Thermal Spray Aluminum to Mitigate CUI

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 3, 2012
Corrosion under insulation (CUI) of carbon and low alloy steels is one of many failure mechanisms that decrease reliability and equipment life while...

Amine Treating: A Technology Review and Tutorial

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 3, 2012
Removal of H 2 S and CO 2 from gas streams and liquid hydrocarbon streams is important in many industrial processes. Solutions of aqueous amines have...

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

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 3, 2012
The most dangerous accident that can occur in storage of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is the boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE). The...

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