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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...

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,...

Importance of Backflow Prevention of Hazardous Chemicals from Process Vessels to Utility Pipelines

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 13, 2022
Design of a chemical manufacturing facility is a challenging task because one must ensure that every design feature is carefully analyzed for Hazard...

Operator Response to Alarm Is an IPL, Now What?

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 13, 2022
Claiming operator response to an alarm as an independent protection layer (IPL) is a relatively common practice. But, is enough emphasis given to...

Fire Pre-Plans – What to Know When Things Get Hot

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 13, 2022
History shows us that many facilities handling hazardous materials have experienced major fires that have had a profound impact on personnel, caused...

Leveraging the Use of Hard and Soft Skills in Process Safety

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 13, 2022
The field of process safety requires a combination of soft skills, and hard skills. The ideal process safety practitioner should have a combination...

Limiting Reactive Feeds By Inherently Safe Design Methodology

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 13, 2022
Semi-batch chemical processing often involves feeding reactive materials into jacketed, agitated vessels producing exothermic reactions. Reactant...

Corrosion Under Insulation (CUI) – out of Sight Should It be out of Mind?

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 13, 2022
Every year billions of dollars are wasted by the chemical industry due to corrosion related incidents or mitigations. Process safety is the foremost...

All Turnaround Jobs Are Not Equal! Managing Process Safety during Major Turnarounds at World Scale Ammonia Facility

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2022
The Occupational Safety risks associated with Plant Turnarounds are well known and managed by Operators and Contractors in the Petrochemical Sector...

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