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April 2021

Unusual Hydrogen Explosions Due to Unanticipated Metal-Water Reactions

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 23, 2021
Unusual Hydrogen Explosions Abstract Inadvertent generation of hydrogen from ambient temperature metal-water oxidation reactions have been...

Top 3 Mistakes When Protecting Your SIS from Cyber-Attack

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 23, 2021
We all know that cybersecurity threats are on the rise. With the increase in threat vectors as many companies relocate large numbers of centralized...

“Digital Transformation 4.0” - Production Optimization with AI

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 23, 2021
With the constant pressure to increase plant efficiency and uptime in a highly competitive environment, condition-based maintenance and the...

Limit/Prevent Downtime by Designing Atmospheric/Vacuum Tower Lines for Upset Condition

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 23, 2021
Continuous Distillation throughput can be limited by operational issues with product solidification (plugging) in interconnecting and downstream...

Which Eye Are You Looking through? the Impact of Cognitive Bias on Process Safety

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 23, 2021
Bias surrounds us every day. Everything we look at has a lens of our experience coloring our perception, and everyone has their own lens. This...

Mitigating Threats and Malware through Enhanced Awareness, Detection & Response

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 23, 2021
Malware, ransomware, and cybersecurity related attacks against chemical and manufacturing companies are significantly on the rise. A good question to...

Recovery and Stripping issues at turndown conditions

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 23, 2021
During the refinery cutbacks in the first part of 2020, A FCC unit experienced LPG recovery and H2S stripping issues. The H2S in the naphtha was...

Development and Installation of SIL2 Torquemeter for Functional Safety Process Control of Steam Turbine Driven Compressor

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 23, 2021
Abstract for SIL2 Torquemeter for Functional Safety Process Control of Steam Turbine driven Compressor Introduction Use of a torquemeter to...

Assessing Cybersecurity Risk in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Applications

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 23, 2021
The advent of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) within the chemical industry has the potential to expose control and safety systems to...

Multi-Section Centrifugal Compressors: Compound Versus Back-to-Back Configuration

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 23, 2021
The requirement of a multi-section centrifugal compressor can potentially be satisfied with two distinct configurations: a compound design, and a...

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