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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...

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,...

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...

Process Safety Performance Tool

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 13, 2011
The process safety management in a petrochemical company is a key factor for sustainability, since intends to prevent or minimize the consequences of...

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...

Objective Analysis of PSM Audit Data

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
In developing systems for Process Safety Management, compliance audits are integral with verification that practices and procedures are developed and...

Burn Injury Caused by Mixing Incompatible Chemicals with Sodium Permanganate

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
This paper discusses the investigation of an accident caused by the mixing of incompatible chemicals, a strong oxidizing agent with a reducing agent...

Lessons Learned from a Thermal Runaway Incident Involving an Organic Peroxide Intermediate During a Power Outage

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
A small specialty chemicals plant experienced an unusual power outage as the result of a lightning strike. The lightning strike damaged several of...

Hazards of Unplanned Power Outages: Implementing Appropriate Safeguards

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
Accident root cause investigations often may identify unplanned power outages as the cause of a catastrophic accident. Unplanned power outages can be...

Challenges in Hosting an NEP Inspection

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
An NEP inspection can be very resource intensive; OSHA has received over well over 10,000 pages of documentation at one refinery during an NEP...

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