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Learning from an Industrial Chemical Perspective

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
Learning from an industrial chemical perspective

Explosion Hazards of Multicomponent Combustible Gas Mixtures

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
Laminar and turbulent premixed flame burning velocities are two parameters that are sometimes needed to evaluate explosion hazards. There is ample...

Sulfur Recovery and Tail Gas Treating Process Gas Analyzers, Stigma, Sins and Salvation

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
Process Engineers have a strong inclination for qualitative and quantitative analysis of process streams. On-Line process gas analyzers are a...

Current Manufacturing Processes Utilized to Improve Equipment Reliability and Stability

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
Utilizing high technology techniques in the manufacturing of compressors supplied to the ethylene market provides an operational advantage compared...

Fate of Ammonia in Refinery Amine Systems

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
Fate of Ammonia in Refinery Amine Systems Ralph H. Weiland, Nathan A. Hatcher & R. Scott Alvis Optimized Gas Treating, Inc. Sugar Land, TX...

Control and Optimization of Refrigeration Compressors Using Process Model Based Control

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
Optimal control of refrigeration compressors is important during each phase of ethylene operations; startup, steady state, and shutdown. At steady...

Simplified PSM for Smaller Non-Regulated Sites: Development History, Program Overview & Recommendations

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
Consider the risk mitigation and management challenges facing a small, consumer-product-oriented facility. This site may have fewer than 100...

Flare System Inspection

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
When evaluating the safety and environmental aspects in olefins facility one must surely consider the flare. The flare is responsible for combusting...

Mixed Fluid Cascade, Experience and Outlook

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
The first Base Load LNG plant, which has been built using the Mixed Fluid Cascade (MFC ® ) process, started up in 2007 at a Norwegian location close...

Combustion of Mixtures: A Modified IFC Approach

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
While most studies on flares have been done with single hydrocarbon fuels or binary mixtures, the reality of most industrial flares is that they see...

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