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April 2018

Driving Ammonia Plant Operational Excellence through Performance Monitoring and Analytics

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 24, 2018
Ammonia production is an energy intensive process consisting primarily of steam reforming, shift reactions, methanation, CO 2 absorption, and ammonia...

Combustible Dust Management Screening: Methodology and Tool Development

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 24, 2018
The requirement to conduct a Dust Hazard Analysis is now in place per NFPA Combustible Dust standards. This affects a wide variety of industries that...

Medicion De La Efectividad DEL SIS EN Campo ¿Concuerda CON Las Suposiciones DEL Analisis De Riesgo?

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 24, 2018
El desempeño de los Sistemas Instrumentados de Seguridad (SIS), una vez instalados y operando, debería concordar con lo asumido durante...

Project Changes in Gas Monetization: Pitfalls or Success

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 24, 2018
Looking at potential Gas Monetization projects can be a daunting task. What can make them more daunting is the prospect of changes in the development...

The Roundabout Way to Disaster: Recognizing and Responding to Normalization of Deviance

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 24, 2018
Humans develop processes to structure their activities and set and reach goals. Where a process exists, there will be deviations from that process...

Improving Profitability By Solving Crude and Fuel Blending Challenges

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 24, 2018
The global refining industry has faced constant change in recent years most significantly around the increased availability of opportunity crudes and...

Perceived Low Risk Processes Can be Important - Lessons to a Regulator Based on a Nuclear Fuel Facility Process Event

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 24, 2018
On July 14, 2016, a fuel fabrication facility licensee notified the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) that significant amounts of...

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