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Venting Flammable Gas to a "Safe Area": An Objective Review of Best Practices and Guidelines

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 31, 2014
Venting, purging, or blowing down flammable gas-containing piping systems and vessels may pose unintended fire and explosion hazards to personnel. In...

Inventory and Fate of Chemical Additives to Improve Plant Reliability

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 31, 2014
Chemical additives provide strong benefits to plant operations including the reduction of process upsets resulting from foaming, fouling, emulsions,...

Intrinsic Hazards Assessment: Chemical Reactivity Hazards Assessment for Nitration Processes and Nitrochemicals Handling

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 31, 2014
Chemical Reactivity Hazards Assessment for Nitration and Decomposition of Nitrochemicals S. Dharmavaram 1 and R.W. Trebilcock 2 1 E.I. duPont de...

IPL/CMS- Integrity Management of Non-SIS Independent Protection Layers after the LOPA

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 31, 2014
Process Safety Topic: IPL/CMS- Integrity Management of Non-SIS Independent Protection Layers after the LOPA The use of the Layers of Protection...

Popcorn Polymer Fouling in Light Ends Units

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 31, 2014
Popcorn polymer fouling is thought to be exclusive to Butadiene plants, but in fact, there are dozens of isolated cases of popcorn polymer fouling...

Thermodynamic Release Scenario Modeling and Air Dispersion Modeling for Incident Prevention, Mitigation and Emergency Response Planning at an Acrolein Storage and Transfer Facility

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 31, 2014
Acrolein (Acr) is a highly toxic, flammable and reactive chemical widely used in agriculture and oil field chemical formulations. This case study...

Assessing Thermal Stability - the Challenge of Powders

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 31, 2014
Assessing the thermal stability of process materials and mixtures is an essential step in understanding the process safety profile of a process. Many...

Are You Being Honest with Yourself Regarding IPL Integrity?

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 31, 2014

Properly Calculate Vessel and Piping Wall Temperatures during Depressuring and Relief

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 31, 2014
Determining if a vessel and/or piping component is going to fail under fire exposure and/or from embrittlement is an important factor for consequence...

Syngas Utilization through High Pressure Solvent Assisted Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 31, 2014
Currently, the high oil price combined with a low gas price presents a good opportunity for the development of new gas-related markets. This...

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