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Incident Investigation – Addressing the Worst That Could Have Happened

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 13, 2011
Incident Investigation techniques typically start with a detailed description of the actual consequence and work backward toward the root causes. A...

A Full-Scale Experimental and Modeling Investigation of Dust Explosions in a Roller Mill

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 22, 2010
Combustion of biomass is becoming an increasingly important energy source. This is especially true for wood pellets, as several power companies have...

Imperial Sugar Refinery Combustible Dust Explosion Investigation

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
On February 7, 2008, at about 7:15 p.m., a series of sugar dust explosions at the Imperial Sugar manufacturing facility in Port Wentworth, Georgia,...

Condensation Induced Water Hammer: Principles and Consequences

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
An explosion occurred in the boiler room of a food processing plant as the steam generation system was coming online after a maintenance shutdown...

Consequence Modeling of Chlorine Release

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 22, 2010
This paper describes the Consequence Modeling of Chlorine release from a Chlor Alkali plant as a part of Process Hazard Analysis. The objective was...

Lessons Learned from a Thermal Runaway Incident Involving an Organic Peroxide Intermediate During a Power Outage

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
A small specialty chemicals plant experienced an unusual power outage as the result of a lightning strike. The lightning strike damaged several of...

Using Root Cause Failure Analysis Results to Estimate Failure Rates and PFDavg for Spring Operated Pressure Relief Valves

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 22, 2010
In a companion paper, root cause of failure analysis (RCA) was used to estimate the times to failure of a set of spring operated pressure relief...

Fatal Explosion Caused by An Intermittently-Used Fuel Gas Piping System

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 15, 2011
A fatal explosion occurred at a foundry during a routine test of an intermittently used propane standby system. Just prior to the explosion,...

Acid Release From Catalyst Tanks

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 15, 2011
This is the story of how the cumulative effects of several seemingly innocent changes to a catalyst system resulted in a near miss Process Safety...

Incident Investigation- Addressing Common Oversights

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 14, 2011
Principles of incident investigation may be used in daily process troubleshooting and near miss events to identify root cause. Identifying and...

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