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April 2014

Improving Plant Safety - an Operator Centric View on Process Safety

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 1, 2014
Improving Plant Safety - An Operator Centric View on Process Safety Dr.-Ing. Gregor Fernholz, Global Business Development Manager OTS, Invensys,...

Piper Alpha 25 Years - Progress and Challenges Remaining for the Offshore Industry

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 1, 2014
The Piper Alpha disaster in July 1988 was a wake-up call to the upstream industry that simpler engineering and operational practices were no longer...

Improved Bolted Joint Reliability: Innovative Gasket, Unsurpassed Recovery

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 1, 2014
Currently, there are two well established and common types of gaskets which cover most critical, high pressure, and high temperature applications in...

Lightning Warning Techniques for Risk Mitigation

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 1, 2014
Lightning can pose a threat to numerous processes associated with the production and handling of energetic materials and materials that may produce...

Optimizing Cracking Furnace Operations with Modular Advanced Control Applications

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 1, 2014
Advanced Process Control (APC) of olefins cracking furnaces has been demonstrated over the years to offer significant improvements in performance,...

Professional Accident Emergency System of CNPC and Its Operation

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 1, 2014
CNPC is China's major oil and gas producer and supplier, and the world famous large oil companies as well. CNPC’s businesses cover the exploration...

The Role Of Sequential Automation In Improving Process Safety

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 1, 2014
The ISA106 Committee has released the first technical report for this standard dealing with Sequential Automation for Continuous Process Operations (...

Where are We Going? Vision 2020

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 1, 2014
CCPS Vision 2020

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