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  1. Process Safety Beacon: Process Upsets Require Focus

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2024 March Consider a process that suddenly starts operating erratically and shuts down. It could be an instrument failure, but what really caused the upset? During an unplanned shutdown, the focus may be on restarting the operation. Pressures to return t ...

  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. Process Safety Beacon: Vacuum Can Put a Dent in Your Process

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2024 February ▲ A railcar collapsed after a steam-out process because it was not properly vented. A process containing flammable materials was operating under vacuum. Suddenly, the vent line collapsed. Equipment can collapse when the internal pressure cre ...

  5. Risky Business: Unfocused Cybersecurity Risk Management

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2024 January Matt Malone Organizations must use a targeted cybersecurity risk management approach to safeguard assets and mitigate risks. One of the many hallmarks of evolving industrial automation practices is increasing efficiency. In the earlier days o ...

  6. Process Safety Beacon: An Error Trap Can Be Catastrophic

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2024 January A fuel terminal was offloading a large amount of gasoline from a ship to several storage tanks. The supervisor incorrectly estimated the time to fill one tank, and it overflowed into the containment (dike) area. Unfortunately, the valve to dr ...

  7. Spotlight on Safety: To Err is Human, To Forget is Disastrous

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2024 January B. Karthikeyan “Almost all the major accident investigations — Texas City, Piper Alpha, the Phillips 66 explosion, Feyzin, Mexico City — show human error as the principal cause, either in design, operations, maintenance, or the management of ...

  8. 2024 AIChE Spring Meeting & 20th GCPS Short Courses

    Conference Event | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers | Mar 24, 2024
    AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety 2024 The 2024 AIChE Spring Meeting & 20th Global Congress on Process Safety short courses will be held on Sunday, March 24, 2024, from 9 AM- 5 PM ...

  9. 20th GCPS Welcome Plenary Keynote

    Conference Event | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers | Mar 25, 2024
    AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety 2024 The 20th Global Congress on Process Safety (GCPS) welcome plenary  keynote will be presented by Yatendra Lodha, Group Head of Safety and Operatio ...

  10. 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 ...

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