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  1. Process Safety Beacon: Even Tanks Containing Mostly Water Can Explode

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2021 August On Feb. 8, 2017, an explosion occurred in a condensate tank at a mill in DeRidder, LA, that produced different grades of containerboard. According to the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), the explosion launched the tan ...

  2. Safety Minute: Sleep Loss Doubles Errors

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2021 August TJ Larkin Losing one night of sleep doubles a worker’s error rate. More than half of night shift workers report nodding off or falling asleep at least once per week when working the night shift. Sleep loss doubles errors Researchers studied ho ...

  3. Deciding Between Short-Term and Long-Term Solutions for Aging Infrastructure

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2021 August Sean J. Dee, P.E. Brenton L. Cox, P.E. Russell A. Ogle, P.E. Matthew S. Walters, P.E. Failures related to aging assets can be catastrophic to a facility. This article presents a framework for evaluating whether to implement a short-term fix or ...

  4. How is Cybersecurity Changing Process Safety?

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2021 August Patrick O'Brien Leveraging existing process safety risk assessment techniques can help organizations effectively manage cybersecurity risks. Cybersecurity has become a credible threat to process safety. Today, 70% of industrial automation ...

  5. Process Safety Beacon: Cybersecurity and Plant Operations

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2021 July On Feb. 5, 2021, a water treatment plant employee in Oldsmar, FL, noticed that the cursor on the control computer screen was moving strangely. The employee was initially not concerned, because the plant used remote-access software to allow staff ...

  6. Process Safety Beacon: Combustible Dust Hazards Are Everywhere

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2021 June The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) collected data from 105 dust explosions that occurred from 2006 to 2017, including incidents that did not have an official CSB review. The incidents were then categorized by industry type (Figure 1). ▲ Figure ...

  7. Identify Root Cause of Heat Exchanger Tube Failure

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2021 June Siddharth Talapatra, P.E. Andrew J. Mountford Effective root cause analysis (RCA) can resolve recurring heat exchanger tube failure, enabling safe operation and reducing costs. Heat exchanger troubleshooting is an essential task in the chemical ...

  8. Visual Dust Hazard Analyses Using Bowties

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2021 June Michelle R. Murphy David Hatch Bowtie diagrams help workers quickly visualize and manage threats that can cause uncontrolled ignition of dust, as well as identify the barriers that prevent ignition. The harm and asset damage that a dust explosio ...

  9. Modernize Training with AI, XR and Microlearning

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2021 May Coral Siminovich, P.E. Incorporate artificial intelligence (AI), extended reality (XR), and microlearning technologies into training programs to improve worker performance and safety. The current remote working environment has arguably changed th ...

  10. Letters: May 2021

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2021 May Continuing the Discussion on Climate The compilation of observations, modeling, impacts, and solutions presented in “Thinking About Climate” (CEP, Feb. 2021, pp. 14–15) that summarize the history, as well as the future we should be heading toward ...

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