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Industrial Experience in Handling Cleaning of Crude Refinery Preheat Trains

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
Industrial Experience in Handling Cleaning of Crude Refinery Preheat Trains 1,2 Ishiyama E.M., 1 Pugh S.J. and 2 Wilson D.I. 1 IHS ESDU, Houndsditch...

Tutorial: The Chemistry of Refinery Fouling

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
The chemistry of refinery fouling is well enough understood to mitigate nearly all fouling. The key information required are the location of the...

Structure of Process Safety in the Operating Plants ñ Leaders of Management and Analysis of Risks and Impacts

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
BRASKEM within the production process developed a framework and Analysis of Impacts and Risk Management Process which seeks to ensure that the risk...

Re-Rating Ethylene Plant Equipment for Optimum Results

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
Rerating of turbomachinery equipment installed in ethylene plants is a well established method of improving plant operation, whether it is capacity...

Are Your Credits Worthy?

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
Chemical and petrochemical manufacturing processes can be subject to high consequence, low frequency events. Process Safety Management programs are...

Deriving Major Accident Failure Frequencies with a Storybuilder Analysis of Reportable Accidents

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) is used in the Netherlands and the UK for site permitting and land-use planning around industries with dangerous...

Increasing CO2 Slip Though An Amine Based Tail Gas Treating Unit

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
Paper title: Reducing CO2 in the recycle gas from MDEA based tail gas treating units Abstract: CO2 is an undesirable compound in a sulphur recovery...

Leveraging PSM to Implement Key Elements of a SIS Program

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 61511 standard, “Functional Safety – Safety Instrumented Systems for the Process Industry Sector...

Retired and Dangerous

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
“Planning not to retire is simply not a viable retirement strategy.” — Catherine Collinson, Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies The Hazard...

Prediction of Corrosion in Pipes

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
ABSTRACT AIChE Spring 2012 Meeting Prediction of Corrosion in Pipes Sally Nicola, Victor Carreto, Ray A. Mentzer, M. Sam Mannan Mary Kay O'Connor...

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