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Process Safety Auditing: Thinking Beyond Compliance

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 28, 2015
The PSM rule requires a ‘compliance audit’ at least every three years. This description implies that the purpose of the audit is to ensure that legal...

API Process Safety Site Assessment Program - Promoting a Culture of Process Safety

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 28, 2015
API Process Safety Site Assessment Program – Promoting a Culture of Process Safety A collaborative industry effort managed by API, the Process Safety...

Safety Management of Petrochemical Tank Farms

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 28, 2015
The storage tank zone of petrochemical enterprises is an important site to store liquid raw materials, intermediate products and target products...

How Continuous Corrosion Monitoring Is Helping to Evolve Refinery Operations

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 28, 2015
Refiners are continually seeking to improve profitability in a tight margin environment. This is driving them towards a wider basket of crude oils,...

We Learn and Share but We Don't Get Better! Time for Huaa

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 28, 2015
Any organisation can improve by leveraging its knowledge and lessons learned. These learnings or knowledge can be external or, in a global enterprise...

A Theoretical-Based and Generalized Method for Dust and Gaseous Deflagration Vent Sizing

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 28, 2015
A common method for equipment or building explosion protection is to provide deflagration venting. Vent sizing methods offered in current technical...

Alarm Management Gap Analysis and Improvement at NOVA Chemicals

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 28, 2015
Alarm Management Gap Analysis and Improvement at NOVA Chemicals Doug Lutz , Principal Process Automation Engineer, NOVA Chemicals Corp., Joffre,...

Non-Conventional Methods of Obtaining Combustible Liquid Fuels

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 27, 2015
Introduction Limited world reserves of liquid fuel as well as the general trend to reduce atmospheric contamination pose many challenges for...

Evolution of Relief Sizing at an Operating Company

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 27, 2015
Codes, Standards, and Recognized and Generally Accepted Good Engineering Practices regarding the engineering design of pressure relief systems have...

LOPA - More Observations from the Originators

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 27, 2015
Layer of protection analysis (LOPA) has been around for 20 years, and in general use for 15 years, with the LOPA textbook from CCPS/AIChE being...

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