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April 2015

Risk Assessment for a Gas and Liquid Hydrogen Fueling Station

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 27, 2015
Fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) have been developed for years to cut dependence on fossil fuel and significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions toward a...

LOPA - More Observations from the Originators

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 27, 2015
Layer of protection analysis (LOPA) has been around for 20 years, and in general use for 15 years, with the LOPA textbook from CCPS/AIChE being...

Evolution of Relief Sizing at an Operating Company

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 27, 2015
Codes, Standards, and Recognized and Generally Accepted Good Engineering Practices regarding the engineering design of pressure relief systems have...

Experimental Study on Propane Jet Fire Hazards: Thermal Radiation

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 27, 2015
Jet fires is a of the major hazards in the oil and gas industry, and half of the reported jet fires caused domino effect to enlarge the incident. The...

Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis: Where We Are and Where We May GO

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 27, 2015
The Germans followed a simple plan when they scaled up the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthesis to the commercial level. For the reactor, they set a simple...

Use Thermodynamics to Optimize Energy Consumption and Gas Separation in LNG Processes

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 27, 2015
Natural gas is an important clean energy source to sustain human civilization in this century. Normally, natural gas contains valuable heavy...

Risk Analysis of Wired Versus Wireless Transmission of Process Measurements

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 27, 2015
There is no doubt that wireless technology lowers the cost barriers to remote assessment of equipment condition. As such, wireless technology is...

Sustainable Design of Shale Gas-to-Liquid Process Via Energy and Mass Integration

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 27, 2015
With the significant discoveries of shale gas reserves, there is a growing need for monetization pathways. Gas-to-liquid (GTL) technologies involving...

Indicadores De Seguridad De Procesos y Observaciones Planificadas De Seguridad

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 27, 2015
Introducción Implementar y mantener un programa integral de seguridad de los procesos es un elemento esencial que toda empresa Química y Petroquímica...

Demonstrating Separation and Independence of Automated Systems

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 27, 2015
Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA) exposes the role that automation plays in causing initiating events and in responding to the resulting abnormal...

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