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April 2016

Prevention of Combustible Dust Explosions

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
This tutorial emphasizes the technical understanding of combustible dust phenomena. It will enable attendees to better understand combustible dust...

Modelling and Validation of Dispersion Following an Instantaneous Vapor or Two-Phase Release from a Pressurized Vessel

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
Hazardous flammable and/or toxic materials are often stored in pressurised vessels. This paper deals with the modelling of the dispersion following...

Unique Pre-Cleaning Passivation Challenges in Cooling Water Systems

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
Pretreatment of cooling water systems is essential to maximize the service life and reliability of heat exchange equipment. Usually, pretreatment...

Dale J. Carpenter

Mr. Carpenter is a graduate of Binghamton University, with a degree in Environmental Science and Geology.  Dale has worked in various capacities in the environmental arena, in both the public and private sectors for over 30 years.  For the past 26 years, Dale has been with the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 2 office located in New York City.  During the course of his 26 year tenure at the USEPA, Dale has served in a number of different positions within the Agency including the Superfund, RCRA subtitle C and RCRA subtitle D programs.  ...Read more

Preliminary Evaluation of High-Pressure Circulating Fluidized Bed Biomass to Fuels Technology

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
Pyrolysis of second generation biomass, such as crop residues or non-food crops, seems to be a very promising option for generating clean, renewable...

Carbon Disulfide (CS2): A New Challenge for Steam Cracker Complexes

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
Chemical companies are continuously exploring new opportunities in order to increase competitiveness. In today’s market this can be attained...

Next Generation Phenol Technology

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
The Next Generation Phenol technology offers phenol producers with growth prospects and/or producers pursuing vertical integration of their refining...

Who's Afraid of Combustible Dust? - an Update on Electrical Area Classification

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
The NEC has included the Zone system for electrical area classification since 2005, however the major NFPA dust standards have purposefully...

Design Considerations for Oily Water Lift Stations at Refineries

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
Oily water, a mixture of hydrocarbon residues and water, is contaminated water released during normal operations at an oil refinery. An oily water or...

A Call to Action: Understanding the Key Driver for Continual Process Safety Performance Improvement

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
A well-established design concept for management systems is the continual improvement life cycle involving the steps: Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA)...

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