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Results of Root Cause Analyses of Spring Operated Pressure Relief Valve Failures

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 22, 2010
A subset of 44 failed spring operated pressure relief valves (SORV) from a set of over 5600 Process Equipment Reliability Database (PERD) proof tests...

Process Safety in the Face of Significant Change

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 22, 2010
Development of an effective process safety culture requires employees to look beyond intended performance, to their own nonconscious assumptions...

Update of “Guidelines to Vapor Cloud Explosion, Pressure Vessel Burst, BLEVE and Flash Fire Hazards”

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 22, 2010
The first edition of the CCPS book Guidelines to Evaluating Vapor Cloud Explosions, Flash Fired and BLEVEs was published in 1994. Since that time...

A Resilience Assessment Framework for Infrastructure and Economic Systems: Quantitative and Qualitative Resilience Analysis of Petrochemical Supply Chains to a Hurricane

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 22, 2010
In recent years, the nation has recognized that critical infrastructure protection should consider not only the prevention of disruptive events, but...

Strategies & Tactics for Mechanical Integrity Budget Battles

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 22, 2010
Effective mechanical integrity programs are essential to assure safe operation of plant facilities. The current economic downturn is difficult and...

Geographical Societal Risk: A Useful Method for Understanding Societal Risk

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 22, 2010
Dutch legislation on safety and land use planning: Being a densely populated country, the Netherlands has extensive experience using safety...

Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Experience with the Combustible Dust National Emphasis Program

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 22, 2010
As a result of several combustible dust explosions in the past decade, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) initiated a...

Lessons Learned from Real World Application of the Bow-Tie Method

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 22, 2010
The benefits of using bow-tie diagrams for risk management have been realized by organizations world-wide. They provide a readily understandable...

Using Root Cause Failure Analysis Results to Estimate Failure Rates and PFDavg for Spring Operated Pressure Relief Valves

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 22, 2010
In a companion paper, root cause of failure analysis (RCA) was used to estimate the times to failure of a set of spring operated pressure relief...

Managing Management of Change

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
March 21, 2010
The Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) has designated MOC as one of the areas where metrics need to be developed. One of the issues that CCPS...

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