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Process Safety: Are You Managing Your Hazards or Managing Your Activities?

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2014
In process safety, the key protection layers against major accident hazard scenarios are often the small details such as the correct setting on a...

Risk Adverse or Risk Ad Nauseam

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2014
The use of risk management techniques and tools has become more common place in the past few decades, but have we really learned how to use them...

An Evaluation of RANS Turbulence Models for Structured Foam Reactor Simulation Using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2014
The use of structured open-cell foams with high external surface area is gaining importance in industrial applications due to more energy efficiency...

Overview & Practical Considerations for Use in Water Wash of Process Flow

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2014
Wash Water is commonly used to control the environment in process piping in refineries in order to prevent salt formation or concentrated acidic...

Considerations in the Sizing of Power Generation Facilities for LNG Liquefaction Plants

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2014
High power demands of large scale LNG liquefaction plants have created the need for a careful and structured approach in selecting power generation...

Hurricane Ike Recovery - Electrical & Instrument Systems

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2014
On September 13, 2008 Hurricane Ike struck the Texas-Louisiana Coast causing severe damage to local chemical plant facilities and communities. This...

Compliance: The Necessary Evil

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2014
Compliance: The Necessary Evil Compliance is not optional. Where process safety regulations are in place and enforced, failure to comply puts one’s...

Influence of Customers on PSM Programs - Hitting a Moving Target

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2014
What responsible organization does not aim for continual improvement in their PSM program? Lack of resources, lack of commitment, or even conflicting...

Overview of Inherently Safer Technology

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2014
Best CCPS paper from 2010 GCPS

Are Unconfined Hydrogen Vapor Cloud Explosions Credible?

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2014
A question is frequently raised by owner/operators of chemical processing and refinery sites as to whether unconfined hydrogen vapor cloud explosions...

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