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Modeling Small Releases from Tanks

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 22, 2010
The methodologies in the chapter on “Dispersion Modeling” in the CCPS book Guidelines for Consequence Analysis of Chemical Releases, provide means...

Simulating the Consequences of a HF Release and Evaluating the Effectiveness of Safeguards to Reduce Those Consequences

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 21, 2010

Optimizing Facility Siting and Layout through Mapping Risk Estimates on Plant Area and Monetizing

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 22, 2010
This research is focused on suggesting the methodology to find optimal placement for hazardous facilities and other process plant buildings using...

Atmospheric Storage Tank Explosion Modeling

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 22, 2010
Many flammable products are usually stored in large vessels at atmospheric pressure. Ignition of an hydrocarbon-air mixture in such tanks can lead to...

Consistent Consequence Severity Estimation

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 21, 2010
LOPA, as a semi-quantitative analysis, often provides inconsistent results. This can be due to physical differences between units but often it is due...

The Obvious-to-Obscure Process Safety Checklist for Plant Engineers

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 14, 2011
The recent process safety performance of the energy industry has led to scrutiny of industry and company-specific process safety standards,...

Inherently Safer Reactor Design for Complex Reactions Based On Calorimetry Studies

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 13, 2011
A number of reactive processes of the agrochemical, fine-chemicals and pharmaceutical industries involve thermally unstable and/or toxic reactants,...

Guidelines for Identifying and Mitigating Thermal Hazards of Sustainable Materials

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 14, 2011
Sustainable materials and technologies (a.k.a. ?Green?) are those that are ?delivered with progressively less negative impact upon the Earth.?...

Safety Studies for Reformatsky Chemistry In a Meso-Scale Continuous Process System

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 13, 2011
The production of fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals has been traditionally achieved via batch processes. More recently, there has been interest in...

Assessing the Burning Rate of Solid Oxidizers

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 21, 2010
A method for assigning solid oxidizers and products containing oxidizers to an NFPA Class was developed. The method consists of two reaction-to-fire...

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