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Cole Rosengren

Cole Rosengren is a freelance reporter who specializes in solid waste and environmental issues. He first became interested in the subject while working on the sanitation crew for a large catering company and seeing the scale of waste generated at events throughout the city. From transfer stations in the South Bronx to budget hearings at City Hall to compost builds on Governors Island, he has since covered many sides of New York's waste world. His stories have included a five-part investigative series on the state of local waste management for City Limits and a four-part series on the...Read more

Evaluating the Effect of Obstruction Separation Distance on Flammable Gas Dispersion Using FDS

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
When Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models are used for field siting studies on gas-handling facilities, the separation distance between...

LOPA - When the Solution Becomes the Problem!

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) was developed to improve decision-making by performing simplified quantitative risk assessments on individual...

Risk Criteria Selection and the Impacts on the LOPA Process

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
In the CCPS book Layer of Protection Analysis – Simplified Process Risk Assessment , Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA) is initially...

Feasibility Study for Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) Optical Gas Imaging

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
Infrared (IR) cameras have been used extensively to detect hydrocarbon leaks from process equipment for both process safety and environmental...

Combustible Dust Hazard Assessment: A Risk Based Approach

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
A CCPS Concept Book on performing Combustible Dust Hazard Assessments (CDHA) will be published later this year. This book is not meant to duplicate...

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