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A Key Factor In Hazardous Processes: Safety Culture

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 14, 2011
The significance of Safety Culture is becoming increasingly recognized as a key factor to achieve the safe operation of hazardous processes. This...

Systematic Workforce Involvement In Process Safety

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 14, 2011
Workforce involvement is an essential element of effective process safety management. This paper will describe proven methods of workforce...

PSM Auditing Dilemmas

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 13, 2011
In most PSM audits, the audit team will face one or more situations that represent a dilemma. These dilemmas usually require the individual auditor...

Management of Change (MOC) Auditing System

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 13, 2011
Our company has discovered that regular auditing of the MOC process is essential to enforcing its proper use. We have developed an audit that can be...

Operational Discipline: Does Your Organization Do the Job Right Every Time?

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 13, 2011
Operational Discipline: Does your organization &'do the job right every time&' Most organizations, especially those involved in handling...

Safety Studies for Reformatsky Chemistry In a Meso-Scale Continuous Process System

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 13, 2011
The production of fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals has been traditionally achieved via batch processes. More recently, there has been interest in...

Inherently Safer Reactor Design for Complex Reactions Based On Calorimetry Studies

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 13, 2011
A number of reactive processes of the agrochemical, fine-chemicals and pharmaceutical industries involve thermally unstable and/or toxic reactants,...

Comparison of Deflagration to Detonation Transition (DDT) Criteria with Test Data From Unconfined Ethylene-Air Vapor Cloud Explosion

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 13, 2011
Deflagration to detonation transitions (DDT) were previously observed in a set of large-scale unconfined vapor cloud explosion (VCE) tests involving...

Improvement of BLEVE Overpressure Method Using Historical Data

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 13, 2011
The current CCPS/TNO's BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) overpressure methodology is derived from that published by Baker in 1975...

A Conceptual Approach to the Evaluation of Layers of Protection for Inherently Safer System Design

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 13, 2011
First order inherently safer technology (IST) involves the elimination of a hazard through one of four traditional approaches. While these methods...

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