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Condensation Induced Water Hammer: Principles and Consequences

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
An explosion occurred in the boiler room of a food processing plant as the steam generation system was coming online after a maintenance shutdown...

Imperial Sugar Refinery Combustible Dust Explosion Investigation

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
On February 7, 2008, at about 7:15 p.m., a series of sugar dust explosions at the Imperial Sugar manufacturing facility in Port Wentworth, Georgia,...

Learning from Events: Major Process Safety Incidents from Waste Water in Process Chemical Plants, or, Take Care of Your Waste Water or It Will Take Care of You

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
Most, if not all chemical industries generate waste water from its processes. This waste water is often pre-treated and then disposed to water...

Evaluating Human Response to an Alarm for LOPA or Safety Studies

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
Many LOPA scenarios have an independent protection layer (IPL) credit for operator intervention to prevent or mitigate the scenario. It is often...

Near-Miss Management to Develop Dynamic Leading Indicators to Predict Incidents

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
Recent studies have shown the importance of identifying near-misses to predict the probability of accidents (Meel and Seider, 2006) – and managing...

Elements of Human Factors Missing from Process Safety

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
Process safety is about controlling risk of failures and errors; controlling risk is primarily about reducing the risk of human error. All elements...

An Integrated Toolkit for Addressing Human Factors Issues in Process Safety

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
This paper describes an integrated toolset, called the Human Factors Workbench, which addresses the proactive and reactive control of human error in...

A Framework for Human Error Analysis of Emergency Situations

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
Human factors play an important role in the escape, evacuation and rescue process. Human factors analysis is rooted in the concept that the frequency...

Modular Procedural Automation Addressing the Post Recession Skills Gap

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 23, 2010
A procedural operation consists of a set of tasks that are conducted in a set way time-after-time to achieve a certain goal such as starting or...

Stability Analysis of Safety Valve

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 22, 2010
The stability for a safety valve was investigated by experiments and analysis. It was found that the dynamic instability was caused by the...

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