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April 2016

Analysis of Energy Consumption in Industrial Distillation Columns

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
Distillation is the commonly applied separation process in the chemical process industry as heat is used as the non-contaminating separating agent...

Update on OSHA PSM RAGAGEP Guidance

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
Abstract RAGAGEP in PSM Enforcement (RAGAGEP 201) James R. Lay, PE Lisa A. Long Mike L. Marshall, PE Jeffrey J. Wanko, PE In 2015 OSHA issued...

Human Reliability and Process Safety Metrics: Considerations from an Abnormal Situation Management Perspective

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
The ASM Consortium conducted a series of studies investigating the role of operations practice failures in major process safety incidents. The...

Dynamic Barrier Management - Addressing the Reality

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
Barrier-based safety programs are increasingly being used to manage high hazard facilities safely. Typical tools include bow tie diagrams which map...

Retrofit of Non-Structural Components on Buildings Subjected to Blast Loading

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
Structures in chemical and petrochemical facilities are often located in areas that may be subjected to blast loading. Building in those areas...

Modeling of the First of a Kind Technology for the Process Design Packages

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
The first of a kind technology is developed in laboratory and pilot unit. In order to scale-up an innovative technology to a commercial plant, a...

EPA's Effort to Expand Risk Management Program Requirements - Necessary Improvements in Chemical Safety or a Failure to Implement and Enforce Existing Regulations

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
In the wake of the 2013 West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion, President Obama directed various federal agencies, including EPA, to develop an...

Ethylene Cracking Furnace Burner Applications Operating with Significantly Less Than 90 mg/nm3 NOX Emissions

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
This abstract will focus on the field results of eight (8) ethylene cracking furnaces, which use Zeeco GLSF Enhanced-Jet burners at Petrochina...

Safer and Smarter Sulfiding of Hydrotreating Catalysts

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
Catalyst sulfiding (aka "presulfiding") is a critical step to ensure that hydrotreating catalysts perform as designed after startup. In order to...

Towards a Level Playing Field - Permitting and Regulatory Compliance Around the World

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
Decades ago, industries in the United States, Europe and other “developed” countries were criticized – rightly or wrongly –...

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