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  1. Process Safety Beacon: Valve Position Errors Can Cause Serious Incidents

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2021 May During a transfer operation on Oct. 29, 2009, more than 260,000 gal (984 m 3) of gasoline was released from a storage tank, leading to a major explosion and fire. The incident killed 11 people, including two operators, and injured 150 others. The ...

  2. Safety Minute: Complex Procedures Can Increase Accidents

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2021 May TJ Larkin As the length and complexity of procedures increase, the number of safety incidents also increases. Procedure complexity increases errors A study of 632 nurses and doctors from three hospitals and 47 medical units (e.g., surgery, anesth ...

  4. Process Safety Beacon: Recent Nitrogen Fatalities Are a Vivid Reminder

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2021 April On January 28, 2021, a liquid nitrogen leak occurred at a poultry processing plant in Gainesville, GA (1). The poultry plant had installed the liquid nitrogen system four to six weeks prior to the leak to quickly freeze chicken products. A main ...

  5. Seven Columns, Seven Questions: The Essence of HAZOPs

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2021 April Michael S. Schmidt, P.E. Conduct a hazard and operability study (HAZOP) by answering a series of seven questions. Before a process risk assessment can be performed, the process hazards (e.g, fires, explosions, toxic exposures) must be identifie ...

  6. Spotlight on Safety: Fishing for Hazards

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2021 February John W. Herber If you live near water, you have the opportunity to go fishing just about any time. However, if you impulsively jump into a boat with a container of bait and some gear, what will you catch? Maybe you’ll get lucky and catch a f ...

  7. Understand Process Hazards to Manage Change Safely

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2021 January B. Karthikeyan Successful management of change (MOC) programs identify potential process hazards. Managing changes to processes is one element under the managing risk foundational block of the risk-based process safety (RBPS) approach to proc ...

  10. ChE in Context: Old Tricks for New Dogs

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2020 October Peter N. Lodal By now, we have all read many articles discussing the ways COVID-19 has and will continue to fundamentally change how we live, work, and play. In light of this, the most pertinent questions that need to be asked are: How will C ...

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