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April 2015

Robotic Convection Bank Cleaning

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 28, 2015
Ethylene cracking heaters like other box fired heaters in the refining and petrochemical industry represent a significant investment in a plant...

Discover Texas History — Visit the Bullock Museum

April 28, 2015
April 29, 2015

If you are attending the Spring Meeting or Global Congress on Process Safety, the best way to learn about Austin — and the great state of Texas — is to visit the

Boosting Returns through Advanced Hydrogen Solutions in Refineries

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 28, 2015
Modern high complexity refining landscape involves increasing proportion of ‘opportunity crudes’ processing and widened bottom-of-the-barrel...

Refiners Meet the Challenges in a Changing Environment

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 28, 2015
Tom Hogan, Senior Vice President of Turner, Mason & Co., will discuss the refinery responses to a rapidly changing environment. Expanding...

Calculating Facility Siting Study Leak Sizes - Applications of the Maximum Design Leak (MDL) Approach

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 28, 2015
Consequence-based Facility Siting Studies (FSSs) typically requires the user assume a credible leak size to use in the evaluation of potential...

To Safely Go Where No Man Has Gone before: Exploring and Producing with Process Safety

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 28, 2015
Today’s process safety practices are invariably the result of hard lessons learned by industry after experiencing major accidents. Process safety...

Developing Credible Scenarios for a PHA

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 28, 2015
OSHA’s Compliance Guidelines and Recommendations for the PSM Standard states “A PHA is an organized and systematic effort to identify and analyze the...

Huaa...When Local Learning and Casual Sharing Is Not Enough

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 28, 2015
As a consequence of the Deepwater Horizon blowout and explosion, Bhopal and Piper Alpha, we have the PSM standard and SEMS rule. This helps ensure...

Cracking Furnace Fuel Supply - Design, Operational and Maintenance Issues

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 28, 2015
This paper outlines the challenges faced in the design, operation and maintenance of ethylene plant fuel supply systems. There are a number of design...

Three Decades after Bhopal: What We Have Learned about Effectively Managing Process Safety Risks

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 28, 2015
While no industrial chemical incident has had the magnitude for loss of life that occurred in 1984 at Bhopal, process safety incidents continue to...

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