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Troubleshooting Vacuum Operation of an Inter-after Condenser Unit in Ethylene Plant

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 24, 2018
An ethylene refrigeration compressor in ethane cracker unit is powered by surface condensing steam turbine that operates under vacuum. The vacuum is...

Applying Process Safety Time Concepts in Process Plant Applications

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 24, 2018
In order to be considered effective, a Safety Instrumented Function (SIF) must be able to sense when a failure has occurred, and respond quickly...

Rare but Conceivable: Determining the Likelihood of Meteors and Other Infrequent Events

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 24, 2018
In the aftermath of a rare but devastating disaster, there is a tendency to overestimate how frequent such an event may be, hence a tendency to...

Increase Profitability with Global Optimization

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 23, 2018
There is never enough tankage to create the perfect blended product with no quality giveaway. Likewise, there is never enough certainty in any...

Modeling Reactive Mixtures: Case Study for Spills of Formaldehyde Solutions

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 23, 2018
When a liquid mixture such as an aqueous formaldehyde solution is released into the environment, the vaporization depends strongly on chemical...

Practical Application of Bowties Analysis; Enhancing Traditional PHA

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 23, 2018
The benefits of using bowtie diagrams for risk management have been realized by organizations world-wide across a variety of business sectors. They...

Pressure Relief Design for Reactive Systems

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 23, 2018
Abstract: Pressure relief design for reactive systems requires a different way of thinking than standard non-reactive designs. Reactive systems are...

Human Factors in Real Life Applications - a Scuba Example

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 23, 2018
The application of human factors in process safety is a key next step in continuing to advance improvement, but there is still much to be understood...

Game Based Learning; Reinforcing Process Safety

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 23, 2018
The concept of process safety has been around a long time but a spate of major accidents in the last decade has further emphasized the need for...

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