The Advanced Manufacturing and Processing Conference 2020 will bring together academics, industry, and government representatives to highlight the development of process intensification, smart manufacturing and AI that impact manufacturing at large.
When safety investigations are conducted like criminal investigations, they tend to be backward-looking and focused on learning who to blame, rather than forward-looking with a focus on what to fix, so that similar incidents can be avoided.
Nowadays, everybody seems to be talking about innovation and how important it is for companies to grow and survive. There are hundreds of books and interesting papers about innovation but many of them tend to focus on techniques to generate ideas for innovative products and most of them...
Multiple companies operating process plants at a single site has become increasingly common as aging facilities are sold and re-purposed, but this scenario creates unique challenges for effective Process Safety Management (PSM).
The PSM responsibilities of the owner/operator of a plant...
Follow this guide to keep your combustion and air pollution control equipment running at full capacity.
Troubleshooting is an integral part of keeping any plant in the chemical process industries (CPI) functional. It consists of interfacing and communicating with facility personnel,...
During an ethylene plant turnaround, a 38-year-old tube bundle of a vertical thermosiphon reboiler was replaced with a new, seemingly identical one. After the turnaround, the reboiler was not able to reach the same duty as with the old tube bundle. The heat duty loss was substantial....
Human fatigue is a peculiar issue in safety and risk management. On the one hand, imagining fatigue as a factor that can lead to incidents seems rational and intuitive. On the other, managing fatigue risks in practice can prove quite challenging. Realistically assessing work-related fatigue and...
Dennis R. Heldman was awarded B.S. (1960) and M.S. (1962) degrees from The Ohio State University, and PhD (1965) from Michigan State University. In 1966, he joined the faculty at MSU. In 1984, he became VP of Process R&D at Campbell Soup Company, then moved to the National Food Processors Association as Executive VP of Scientific Affairs in 1986. In 1991, Heldman joined the Weinberg Consulting Group Inc. He was Professor at the University of Missouri in 1992 to 1998. From 1998 to 2004, Heldman was Professor at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and was a consultant involved...Read more
