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April 2022

De-Risking the Use of Compact Heat Exchanger Designs through Better Cleaning

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 13, 2022
De-risking the use of compact heat exchanger designs through better cleaning. Roberto Tomotaki Byron Kieser Engineers are reluctant to place compact...

Progress Towards a Comprehensive Model for Mass Transfer and Hydraulics for Structured Packings

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 13, 2022
Rate-based calculations theoretically offer more rigor and reliability for assessing column performance than the traditional equilibrium-stage...

How Traditions Impact Risk - A Study of the TAMU Bonfire Collapse

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 13, 2022
The presenter was one of the investigators selected to analyze the collapse of the Texas A&M Bonfire stack in November of 1999 which killed 12...

Only the Best Is Good Enough – Managing the Risks of Glass in Hazardous Service

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 13, 2022
When the consequences of failure are catastrophic, only the best is good enough. Sightglasses, flowglasses, and level glasses are used throughout the...

Optimizing Water Jetting Cleaning of Heat Exchangers

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 13, 2022
Cleaning of industrial equipment is a crucial activity that provides significant operational and economic savings. More specifically, the periodic...

Quantifying Lithium-Ion Battery Hazards

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 13, 2022
Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are used in a variety of applications to provide energy on demand, collectively known as Battery Energy Storage System...

Preventing Incidents in Unloading and Loading of Bulk Chemicals

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 13, 2022
Loading and unloading operations for bulk chemicals have multiple types of risks with potentially high consequences. Yet these operations tend to be...

Hydrogen Safety and Quantitative Risk Assessment – Key Knowledge Sharing

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 13, 2022
Hydrogen has significantly different physical and chemical properties to conventional natural gas and other hydrocarbons. Hydrogen storage,...

Lead It! Solve It! Few Tips, Tools, and Strategies for Becoming an Effective Technical Project Leader from a Slightly Seasoned Professional

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 13, 2022
Most of the young inexperienced engineers and scientist enter the workforce without grasping the reality that at some point in time in their careers...

Sustainability Certification for Ethylene Supply Chains Using Iscc PLUS

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 13, 2022
Sustainability certification for ethylene supply chains using ISCC PLUS The circular economy and the bioeconomy continue to grow. Both have the goal...

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