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Using LOPA for Sil Assignment: A Tale of Two Plants

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 13, 2011
Two plants operated by the same company have ?identical? ammonium nitrate (AN) solution pump installations. Yet the LOPA teams concluded that the...

Operational Discipline: Does Your Organization Do the Job Right Every Time?

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 13, 2011
Operational Discipline: Does your organization &'do the job right every time&' Most organizations, especially those involved in handling...

Safety Studies for Reformatsky Chemistry In a Meso-Scale Continuous Process System

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 13, 2011
The production of fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals has been traditionally achieved via batch processes. More recently, there has been interest in...

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...

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