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How to Conduct a Dust Hazards Analysis (DHA)

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 24, 2018
Abstract: Dust hazards analyses (DHAs) are required to be completed by September 2018 for all existing facilities, per NFPA 652. This presentation...

Perceived Low Risk Processes Can be Important - Lessons to a Regulator Based on a Nuclear Fuel Facility Process Event

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 24, 2018
On July 14, 2016, a fuel fabrication facility licensee notified the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) that significant amounts of...

Why Are the New People Making the Same Mistakes That the Old-Timers Made 25 Years Ago? Managing Organizational Change

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 24, 2018
History repeats itself. The same process safety incidents occur over and over. The same occupational safety incidents occur repeatedly. Why?...

Reaction Effluent Analysis Using Adiabatic Calorimetric Experiments

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 24, 2018
The safe design and operation of chemical production facilities requires knowledge of the potential hazards of process streams. For managing the...

Catalytic Processesprocess Safety Requirements

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 24, 2018

Process Monitoring of Batch Bioreactor Process Using Optimized Data Based Model

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 24, 2018
Monitoring is an important aspect in industrial processes to ensure process safety, and maintain high product quality. Two important steps of process...

Best Practices for Bulk and Additive Transfers in Lubricant Blending Plants

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 24, 2018
The dynamics in the finished product lubricant make maintaining profit margins more difficult. In today's market, lubricant manufacturers have...

Vented Hydrogen DDTs

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 24, 2018
Baker Engineering and Risk Consultants, Inc. (BakerRisk ® ) and Daewoo Engineering and Construction Co. Ltd. (Daewoo) performed partially-...

The Day a Three Mile Island Event Did Not Happen

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 24, 2018
In 1986, while I was a new engineer at a nuclear power plant, the plant experienced a total loss of feedwater event when multiple systems and...

Internal Auditing – Improving Human Performance

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 24, 2018
The primary purpose of an organization's internal auditing program is to assess compliance with their internal requirements and applicable...

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