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  1. Process Safety Beacon: Get Out and Stay Out

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2024 April ▲ Employees evacuated from a food processing facility after a fatal nitrogen release. Image credit: Scott Rogers/The Times via Associated Press. On Jan. 28, 2021, liquid nitrogen overflowed from an immersion freezer located inside a food proces ...
  2. New Products: March 2024

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2024 March Fluids and Solids Handling Diaphragm Seal Is Suitable for Sanitary Applications Diaphragm seals are used to separate media in a vessel from a pressure sensor, as the flexible diaphragm allows for accurate measurement without media contact with ...
  3. Supporting LOPA with Fault Tree Analysis

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2024 February Edward M. Marszal John Applegate Risk management tools like layers of protection analysis (LOPA) can oversimplify risk analyses. More advanced tools such as fault tree analysis can expand these simple studies and make them more accurate. Lay ...
  4. Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Strategies in Industrial Control Systems

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2023 December Tim Gale Managing cybersecurity risk in an industrial control system requires a risk assessment approach that addresses the unique nature of the technologies and consequences involved. Risk assessment strategies in industrial control systems ...
  5. Process Safety Beacon: The Agitator Stopped! Now What?

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2023 November ▲ An explosion and fire devastated a resin facility in Columbus, OH. Read U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation (CSB) report No. 2021-04-I-OH for more information. A flammable vapor release, explosion, and fire incident occurred at a ...
  6. Pilot Plants in Hoods and Ventilated Enclosures

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2023 August Richard Palluzi Hoods and ventilated enclosures are not always as effective as assumed. Follow these guidelines to safely install and operate pilot plants in hoods and ventilated enclosures. Installing a pilot plant inside a hood is an increas ...
  7. Apply Inherently Safer Design Concepts to Existing Facilities

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2023 August Richard Santo, Jr. Martin Rose Alyse Keller David Moore, P.E. Sections The regulatory case for ISD ISD is not just for the design phase ISD success stories in existing plants ISD implementation guide Opportunities and challenges Literature Cit ...

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