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April 2021

Improved Fouling and Corrosion Control in New Ethane Cracker Reduces Operating Expenses By $1.4 Million per Year.

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 20, 2021
Braskem Idesa, in collaboration with Dorf Ketal and Solenis, reports on steps taken to improve efficiency and reliability of Cracked Gas Compressor (...

Formation of Side Products in the Synthesis of the Synthetic Fuel Poly(oxymethylene) Dimethyl Ethers and the Implications for Process Design

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 20, 2021
A substantial reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in each economic sector is essential in order to limit global warming. Especially the...

Introduction to Troubleshooting Distillation Columns

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 20, 2021
In all chemical plants and refineries there generally is not enough instrumentation in the right places in our processes. During the design phase,...

Converting Refinery Spent Caustic to a Biodegradable Wastewater Stream

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 20, 2021
Refineries generate spent caustic in the MEROX, Kerosene, or jet fuel units. This spent caustic is hard to treat in biological processes due to the...

¿Cuándo Aplicar Un Fera: Fire and Explosion Risk Assessment?

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 20, 2021
Muchas son las dudas respecto a la ejecución de un estudio de Evaluación de Riesgos de Fuego y Explosión (Fire...

Facility Siting - Negotiating the Minefield of “Maximum Credible Event”

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 20, 2021
The purpose of this paper is to provide a case study that compares the results from a consequence-based facility siting study (FSS) limited to a 2-...

How Is Cybersecurity Changing Process Safety?

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 20, 2021
Cybersecurity has become a credible threat to process safety, and the exposure has never been higher with 70% of Industrial Automation and Control...

My Moc Stories: Making Process Safety Tangible

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 20, 2021
Stories and analogies are powerful! And stories that relate to our own lives are not only more memorable but they have far more impact. It is for...

Process Safety Integrated Map in Power BI

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 20, 2021
This work intend to present the motivations and strategy to implement the Process Safety Integrated Map through a Business intelligence dashboard to...

Scalable Pervaporation Membrane to Enable New Continuous Flow Chemical Synthesis Routes

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 20, 2021
Pervaporation membranes can be used to avoid azeotropic distillation, enable flow chemistry technology, degas organic solvents, dehydrate solvents,...

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