August 2020

Human Reliability Analysis for Oil and Gas Operations: Analysis of Existing Methods

Conference Presentation

AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

August 20, 2020

Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA) has been one of the main tools for risk management in the petroleum industry,. QRAs differ on the extent to which...

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High Reliability Organizations - Application of US Nuclear Navy Extreme Operational Excellence Principles in the Oil and Gas Industry

Conference Presentation

AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

August 20, 2020

High Reliability Organizations (HROs) are organizations which succeed in avoiding catastrophes in an environment where normal accidents can be...

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Flare Instrumentation Minimum Expectations

Conference Presentation

AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

August 20, 2020

As the U.S. EPA begins expanding the flare requirements first found in the Refinery Sector Rule to other industries, newly affected facilities need...

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A Structurally-Integrated Heat Exchanger for a Hypersonic Vehicle: Exploring a Stretch-Dominated Additively Manufactured Metal Lattice Combustor Liner Concept

Conference Presentation

AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

August 20, 2020

A novel concept for a multifunctional additively manufactured (AM) lattice-based hypersonic vehicle combustor liner heat exchanger is proposed...

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General Feature Extraction for Process Data Using Convolutional Neural Network Based Transfer Learning

Conference Presentation

AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

August 20, 2020

In the past decades, data-driven methods have been widely applied in process data analytics. Particularly in process monitoring and fault detection...

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An Extension of Smoker's Equation That Includes the Murphree Tray Efficiency

Conference Presentation

AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

August 20, 2020

The Smoker equation is the analytical equivalent of the graphical McCabe-Thiele construction for binary systems with approximately constant relative...

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RAPID Technology Showcase - IFS

September 2, 2020

IFS is a startup OEM providing continuous flow fluid heating equipment to the process industries built on their proprietary 'middle-out' platform to improve manufacturing performance and profitability.