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Enabling Performance Management - Producing Vs. Collecting Metrics Data

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 1, 2014
The topic of Process Safety metric selection has been widely discussed. Yet, some organizations still feel inadequate with their Process Safety...

Process Safety Culture - Making This a Reality

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 1, 2014
There is a lot of attention on Process Safety Culture. Many implementers see this as an intangible attribute of a company or site. Others see this as...

Mechanical Integrity 101 for Process Safety Professionals

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 1, 2014
This paper prepares you to evaluate your existing practices versus recognized codes and standards and then to efficiently improve or develop and...

Steam Trap Maintenance and Design for Energy Optimization

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 1, 2014
Steam availability is a key resource and constraint in an ethylene plant and where turbines are used for energy optimization. A steam leak and steam...

Influence of Wind Direction on Gas Detector Allocation in Offshore Production Unit

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 1, 2014
One of the most successful mitigation measures against hydrocarbon leaks in offshore platforms is the installation of gas detector systems. A...

Optimization of Water Network Design and Dynamic Operation for Agile Batch Manufacturing

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 1, 2014
Water network design (WND) is of great importance to effective use of valuable water, which plays key role in not only the reduction of freshwater...

Risk Assessment Challenges to 20:20 Vision

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 1, 2014
A wide variety of hazard identification and risk analysis techniques are available. All techniques require knowledge in the fundamentals of the...

Generalized Laguerre Reduction of the Volterra Kernel for Practical Identification of a MIMO System

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 1, 2014
The Volterra series can be used to model a large subset of nonlinear, dynamic systems. A major drawback is the number of coefficients required model...

Automatic Operation of Transfer Line and Decoke Valves, Flexibility & Process Safety

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 1, 2014
Decoking is an important function in the operation of a furnace. This paper describes the decoking system, focusing on the transfer line and decoke...

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