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April 2014

Mechanical Integrity 101 for Process Safety Professionals

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 1, 2014
This paper prepares you to evaluate your existing practices versus recognized codes and standards and then to efficiently improve or develop and...

Influence of Wind Direction on Gas Detector Allocation in Offshore Production Unit

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 1, 2014
One of the most successful mitigation measures against hydrocarbon leaks in offshore platforms is the installation of gas detector systems. A...

Benchmarking Safety Culture in Major Hazards Industries in the Rotterdam Area

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 1, 2014

Risk Assessment Challenges to 20:20 Vision

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 1, 2014
A wide variety of hazard identification and risk analysis techniques are available. All techniques require knowledge in the fundamentals of the...

Steam Trap Maintenance and Design for Energy Optimization

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 1, 2014
Steam availability is a key resource and constraint in an ethylene plant and where turbines are used for energy optimization. A steam leak and steam...

Optimization of Water Network Design and Dynamic Operation for Agile Batch Manufacturing

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 1, 2014
Water network design (WND) is of great importance to effective use of valuable water, which plays key role in not only the reduction of freshwater...

Automatic Operation of Transfer Line and Decoke Valves, Flexibility & Process Safety

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 1, 2014
Decoking is an important function in the operation of a furnace. This paper describes the decoking system, focusing on the transfer line and decoke...

An Optimization Framework for Designing Input Signals for Plant Testing

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 1, 2014
The plant test is a critically important step in the development of model-based process controllers such as MPC, since the resulting data becomes the...

Determination of the Active Sites over Rh Substituted Pyrochlores for Dry Reforming of Methane

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 1, 2014
Dry reforming of methane (DRM) to syngas (H 2 and CO) has been well-studied over a number of catalysts. The high temperatures needed to produce...

Prescriptive Versus Performance-Based Mitigation of Combustible Dust Hazards

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 1, 2014
There are a number of standards and regulations related to dust explosion hazards throughout the world. Several often-referenced dust explosion...

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