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August 2020

Solve the Manufacturing Data Overload Dilemma

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
August 21, 2020
Solve the Manufacturing Data Overload Dilemma Finding process faults in sensor data is critical to improving operational metrics in manufacturing...

Scaling Manufacturing Data Analytics, from Statistical Process Control to Machine Learning

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
August 21, 2020
The chemical manufacturing environment is filled with thousands of missed signals, where providing the right type of analyzed data to the right...

Panel Discussion: How Can Industries Engage in Data Science Education in Chemical Engineering?

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
August 21, 2020
Perspective from Georgia Tech

Advantages and Drawbacks of Coarse-Grained CFD-DEM and Eulerian Multiphase (Granular Flow) Simulation for Fluidized Beds

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
August 21, 2020
Since its introduction [1], the Discrete Element Method (DEM) has proven to be a valuable method for the analyzing and understanding particulate...

Advanced Process Control Optimum Maintenance

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
August 21, 2020
Several articles report that after an 18-24 month period over half of the Advanced Process Control (APC) installations are performing at either pre-...

Acetylene Converter Operational Risk Mitigation in Front-End Reactors

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
August 21, 2020
Ethylene production requires removal of all acetylene produced in the cracking process before its use in subsequent chemicals manufacturing. Most...

Using Process Safety Principles to Mitigate the Hazards of Battery Energy Storage Systems

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
August 21, 2020
Lithium-ion batteries are increasingly being used in large-scale energy storage systems. These Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESSs) present unique...

Developing Reactor Scale Kinetics Model Integrated with Hydrodynamics Towards Scale-up of a Packed Bed Reactor

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
August 21, 2020
Assessing the reactor performance for trickle bed and two-phase upflow packed bed reactors needs optimized experimentation supplemented by validation...

Determining the Frequency and Severity of Vessel Failure Due to Runaway Reactions in Acetylene Reactors

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
August 21, 2020
Catastrophic temperature runaways in acetylene reactors that lead to a failure of the reactor are very rare. HAZOP/LOPA teams struggle to determine...

Carbon Disulfide and Thiophene: Formation and Mitigation Review

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
August 21, 2020
Thiophene and carbon disulfide are two compounds that can cause difficulties in the steam cracking process. This presentation describes how these...

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