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Best Practice for An Evergreening Pressure Relief Systems Management Program

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 14, 2011
Most oil and gas refining and petrochemical organizations have a Process Safety Management (PSM) program that stems from the requirements outlined...

Results of Root Cause Analyses of Spring Operated Pressure Relief Valve Failures

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 22, 2010
A subset of 44 failed spring operated pressure relief valves (SORV) from a set of over 5600 Process Equipment Reliability Database (PERD) proof tests...

Adjusting Spring Operated Pressure Relief Valve Proof Test Intervals Using Statistical Modeling, and Comparing the Resulting Financial Risk

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 22, 2010
A method for adjusting spring operated pressure relief valve (SORV) inspection intervals is presented based on hazard identification, financial risk...

A Guide to Developing and Implementing Safety Checklists: Plant Steam Utilities

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 21, 2010
Steam generation is an integral part of most chemical process plants; however, the steam plant often is or can be overlooked in the area of hazard...

Optimizing a Mechanical Integrity Program Using Risk Based Inspection – a Case Study

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 15, 2011
The Risk Based Inspection (RBI) process delivers a calculated risk value for each fixed equipment item in a facility. Fixed equipment risk values are...

Specifying Reliability Performance to Meet PSM Expectations

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 14, 2011
Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) and Mechanical Integrity (MI) programs are two of the fourteen elements that the Process Safety Management (PSM)...

Good Engineering Practices - Inspection and Test Frequencies

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 15, 2011
The "Process Safety Management" standard of the Occupational Safety and Health Act [OSHA] requires that "The frequency of inspections and...

The Importance of Mechanical Integrity Inspection for Successful Capital Projects

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 15, 2011
It has been a common practice in the petrochemical industry to wait until a new process unit has been placed into service before performing the...

Evaluation of Spring Operated Pressure Relief Valve Maintenance Intervals and Extension of Maintenance Times Using a Weibull Analysis with Modified Bayesian Updating

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 14, 2011
The Savannah River Site (SRS) spring operated pressure relief valve (SORV) maintenance intervals were evaluated using an approach provided by the...

Risk-Based Mechanical Integrity - Beyond Fixed Equipment

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 22, 2010
This paper presents approaches to provide a safer operating plant by extending mechanical integrity to all process equipment using a risk-based...

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