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Considerations for Transient Operation - Fire Incident

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 13, 2022
This is the story of a root cause analysis (RCA) for a fire in a chemical operation during a transient operation. Findings from this investigation...

Online Repacking of Valves in Liquid Hydrocarbon Service Risk Awareness & Mitigation

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 13, 2022
Online repacking of valves in liquid hydrocarbon service is a practice that, while not common, is used on occasion to avoid the risks associated with...

Development of Intensified Continuous Processes: Lessons Learned through Scale up of New H2s Scavengers

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 13, 2022
The presence of naturally occurring hydrogen sulfide (H 2 S) is found in oil and gas reservoirs worldwide. There are several options for the removal...

Ignition of Large-Scale Vapour and Two-Phase Hydrogen Jets: Field Data and Modelling

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 13, 2022
There is continued focus on the role of hydrogen in the energy transition with associated safety questions. Since hydrogen is highly flammable, fires...

The SIS Just Broke! What Now?

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 13, 2022
The safest approach to responding to detected failure in a safety system is to take the process equipment under protection to a safe state. Likewise...

Matching the Cleaning Method to Your Operational Goals.

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 13, 2022
There are many choices available when it comes to the cleaning of heat exchangers. Over the last number of years, there has been much discussion...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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