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The Phillips Petroleum Explosion Thirty Years Later: Remembering the Lessons from This Incident Today

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
August 21, 2020
October 23, 2019 marked the thirty-year anniversary of a devastating fire and explosion that claimed the lives of 23 workers at a major chemical...

Standardizing Risk Management in Laboratory and Pilot Plant Facilities: A Model

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
August 21, 2020
By its very nature, a research and development site is in constant change. We try things that have not been done before. We create and test new...

Insights to the Columbia Gas Explosions Lawrence and North Andover, MA Sept 13, 2018

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
August 21, 2020
On September 13, 2018 at approximately 4:00 PM EDT a series of emergency calls were received by 911 operators working the Lawrence and North Andover...

Continuous on-Line pH Monitoring and Control for Dilution Steam System Reliability

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
August 21, 2020
Corrosion & fouling in the quench water and dilution steam systems (DSS) of an ethylene plant are an ongoing problem within the petrochemical...

Three Cases: Process Safety Fatalities and a Better Way to Communicate Findings to Employees

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
August 21, 2020
Three Cases: Process Safety Fatalities and a Better Way to Communicate Findings to Employees There is a serious process safety incident and an...

Distillation Column Explosion

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
August 21, 2020
This case study describes the investigation of an explosion that occurred during the startup of a vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) distillation column...

Abnormal Modes of Operation – a Risk-Based Focus

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
August 20, 2020
Per PII, US OSHA, and CCPS, at least of major process safety incidents have occurred during abnormal modes of operation. Abnormal modes of operation...

Operational Discipline Is Not Follow the Procedure

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
August 20, 2020
Operational Discipline is not Follow the Procedure When identifying tenets that companies with great process safety performance will possess, the...

Simultaneous Design and Control of a Distillation Column Under Disturbance for Cost, Inherent Safety, and Controllability

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
August 20, 2020
Traditional inherent safety strategies in the early stages of design focus on reducing the overall hazard of a process without considering its...

Understanding and Managing the Risk during Transient Operations

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
August 20, 2020
Although discussions on abnormal operations have often included both process or equipment start-ups and shut-downs, these operating modes differ from...

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