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Lessons Learned from an Incident at a Cryogenic Gas Processing Faciltiy

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 29, 2015
In September 2009, a fatal incident occurred in a cryogenic gas processing plant. The investigation of the incident indicated a number of potential...

Fire from the Cascading Failure of an Oxygen Supply System

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 29, 2015
This paper discusses the investigation, findings, and root cause analysis of a fire due to the loss of oxygen containment in an ethylene oxide...

Planning Early for Compressor Surge Avoidance

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 29, 2015
Compressor stations are installed at regular interval to drive the flow of gas in a pipeline. The principal component of the compressor station is...

Engineering Safe Pressure Relief for Existing Flare Systems

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 29, 2015
Designing a safe and cost-effective pressure relief system is a constant concern for Engineers working to design safe facilities. Existing flare...

Lending Industrial Experience through Reactive Hazard Examples in University Safety Instruction

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 29, 2015
Past serious reactive chemical accidents have had a profound impact on the chemical industry and the approaches taken towards process safety. Much of...

Do We Really Need More Process Safety Leaders?

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 29, 2015

A Miss, Amiss, a Near Miss

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 29, 2015
Working Titles: Here a Miss, There a Miss, Everywhere a Near Miss Has your Near Miss Program Gone Amiss? Amiss, A Miss, A Near Miss Catastrophic...

Emergency Relief System Design for Reactive System Using Direct Scale-up Method

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 29, 2015
Emergency relief system design for reactive system using direct scale-up method Surendra K. Singh, Michelle R. Murphy and Joshua Gordon ioKinetic,...

Evaluation of Uncertainty in Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Calculations

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 29, 2015
The evaluation of the safety integrity level of a new or existing safety instrumented system (SIS) requires detailed calculations based on the...

Statistical Review of Runaway Reaction Kinetics

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 29, 2015
The calculated self-heating rate of vinyl acetate polymerization runaway reaction was analyzed by means of statistical tools. The data come from a...

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