Process Safety Boot Camp Face-to-Face CourseOffered in North America, this intensive and highly interactive 4-day course trains chemical engineers in the fundamentals of Process Safety. Taught...
Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) CCPS was established in 1985 to focus on engineering and management practices that can prevent and mitigate catastrophic accidents involving release of hazardous materials. CCPS is supported by sponsors in the chemical and hydrocarbon process industries and active worldwide via conferences, books, databases, education, research, and more.
2nd CCPS Global Summit on Process Safety November 3-5, 2015Hotel Istana, Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaThe 1st Global Summit on Process Safety held in Mumbai on December 2014 was a great success. The theme of the conference is based on Vision 2020, developed by the Center for Chemical Process Safety and is supported by the Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP).
Shelter-in-place Design Considerations - How Safe is Safe Enough? Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016Facilities with potentially significant toxic and/or flammable hazards often establish shelter-in-place locations (SIPs) in order to mitigate risks...
The Newly Developed High Pressure Ratio Compressor for the Olefins Market Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016The current pressure on cost calls for new technologies that can simplify and reduce the number of compressor bodies installed as well as saving...
Why Detonation Is the Only Way to Explain Some Vapour Cloud Explosions Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016The possibility that Deflagration to Detonation Transition (DDT) occurs in vapour cloud explosions (VCEs) in industrial accidents has generally only...
Reforzamiento De Componentes No-Estructurales En Edificios Sometidos a Explosiones Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016Estructuras en instalaciones químicas y petroquímicas a menudo se encuentran en zonas que pueden ser sometidos a explosiones. Los edificios en esas...
One Company's Observations on the Implementation of LOPA Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) is gaining popularity as a risk assessment tool, but often unexpected difficulties are encountered when rolling...
40 Years of Worst Practices - Don't Do This! Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016ABSTRACT Having worked in the chemical and PSM industries since 1976, on this, the 40 th anniversary, I'd like to share with you some of the worst...
Compressor for Ethylene Plants - 101 Tutorial Session Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016Selection and application of large compressors in Ethylene Plant service will be presented. Details will include: Machine overview, operation,...
Human Factors and Their Impact on Plant Safety Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016History is full of technology breakthroughs, all striving to increase productivity and efficiency, from the steam engine and the telegraph; we’...
Developing Power, Influence and Leadership for Successful Process Safety Culture Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016It is widely recognized that the development of strong safety cultures has the single greatest impact on the reduction of organizational accidents, a...
Identify SIF and Specify Necessary Sil, and Other IPLs, As Part of PHA/HAZOP, or Why It Is Not Necessary to "Boldly Go Beyond HAZOP and LOPA" Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016This paper shows how to apply the qualitative definition of IPLs within the setting of a process hazard analysis (PHA) to get most of the gain from...
Implementacion De Ventanas Operativas (IOW) En Refineria Latina Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016Implementación de ventanas operativas (IOW) en Refinería Latina: Introducción El siguiente trabajo describe el camino recorrido por una refinería...
How Committed to Process Safety Is Committed Enough? - Doing Process Safety Cultural Communication As the Inevitable Ethical Dimension for Vision 20/20 Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016Temple model to Egg model --- Tomb to house with alive landlord Vision 20/20 's Myth or Reality --- An Inevitable Ethical Dimension Vocabulary of...
Culture, Competence and Compliance Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016Atlantic LNG is one of the world’s largest producers of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). From our base in Trinidad, we operate a four-train...
Revisions to FM Global Property Loss Prevention Data Sheet 7-14, Fire Protection for Chemical Plants Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016For nearly two centuries, businesses across the globe have relied on FM Global and its data sheets—property loss prevention engineering...
Design of Strategic Administration System for the Management of Process Safety Recommendations of Reinsurance Broker, Based on the Standards ISO 31000:2009 and PDVSA SI-S-06:2009, for Petroquimica De Venezuela S.a Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016Abstract. The normative base developed by the parent corporation of Petroleum and Petrochemical Industry Venezuelan Petroleos de Venezuela PDVSA,...
How to Design Human Factors into a PSM System to Ensure Effectiveness and Deliver Risk Reduction Performance Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016Description This paper will present a practical application of a design process for developing and implementing effective process safety management (...
High / Continuous Demand Hazardous Scenariosin LOPA Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016Layer of protection analysis (LOPA) has become one of the most important risk analysis techniques in the process industry to determine the integrity...
Integrating PSM into a Company's Management System Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016Integrating PSM into a Companys Management System Process Safety Management is composed of different elements and processes that need to articulate...
Making Process Safety Personal - Engaging the Front Line Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016The front line is instrumental in implementing process safety, Yet they are rarely engaged in meaningful process safety discussions. We tend to...
A Career in Process Safety: 50 Years of LPS Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016Drawing from a career from 1962 through 2016 in the chemical and process industries, this paper will describe some informal practices of process...
Surviving the Black Swan, Strategies for Process Safety Specialists and Companies to Survive Unpredicted Catastrophic Events Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016Surviving the Black Swan, Strategies for process safety specialists and companies to survive unpredicted catastrophic events By John F. Murphy We...
Advanced Procedures: Leveraging a Human Factors Approach for Improving Process Safety Performance Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016Procedures form an important part of the industry 's operational architecture and are part of the system to ensure that prescribed methods are...
Process Safety Education Program in Mitsubishi Chemical Group Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016The Mitsubishi Chemical Group identifies potential risk factors in the manufacturing process and takes steps to prevent their occurrence by...
Moments of Safety Transformation - Developing Strong Safety Leaders Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016There are pivotal opportunities for leaders to make a fundamental change in the way others see the future state of safety and how they fit into and...
A Rank Order Methodology for Assessing HFE Construction Audit Non-Conformances Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016The construction product in the petrochemical industry has an increasing trend toward large scale operations with greater complexity that are...
Beyond HAZOP and LOPA - Four Different Company Approaches Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016Stepping Beyond HAZOP and LOPA J. Wayne Chastain, P.E. Eastman Chemical Company P.O. Box 511 B-18 Kingsport, TN 37662 (423) 224-0553 chastain@eastman...
"Why All This Talk about Failure? What Happens If We Succeed?" Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016As engineers, we are trained to succeed—the right process design, the right application strategy, and the right diagnostic test. Of necessity,...
Overview of the High Pressure Gas Safety Act in Japan Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 11, 2016If handled incorrectly, the high pressure gas widely used in industry can cause damage not only to the plant in which it is being handled, but also...
Developing Abnormal Situation Management Skills in Ethylene Plant Console Operations Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 4, 2016This presentation focuses on complex responsibilities of console operators in the ethylene industry, and the type of competency-based training that...
Biogas Production Trend at Various Temperature Conditions and Methane Enrichment Using Solvent Absorption Method Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 11, 2015Depletion of the fossil fuels and their prices are going up therefore it is the need of the hour to find out alternative renewable energy resources...
Novel Use of Cognex Vision System for on-Line Level Monitoring/Control in a Continuous Direct Compression Manufacturing Process Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 11, 2015The continuous direct compression manufacturing process consists of several loss-in-weight (LIW) feeders, a horizontal mixer, a surge hopper, and...
Dynamic Modeling of Steam Thermal Power Plants for Real-Time Optimization Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 10, 2015The variable market demand, and the increasing safety and environmental regulations imposed on power plants, force operators to develop dynamic...
Experimental and Numerical Upscale Study of Cyclic Methane Injection to Enhance Shale Oil Recovery Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 9, 2015Cyclic gas injection is considered as an effective and quick responding recovery process to enhance the shale oil recovery compared with water or gas...
A DFT Study of Methanol Reforming on C- and N-Doped TiO2 (110) Rutile Surfaces Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 9, 2015: Biomass reforming is a sustainable method for hydrogen gas production. Hydrogen gas is an increasingly desirable clean burning fuel source that is...
Cold Flow Study of a Segregated Zoning Burner Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 9, 2015There are large deposits of oil shale and inaccessible coal in the US and around the world. Shale oil extraction is usually performed by ex-situ...
Dynamic Light Scattering Study of Sulfonated Polystyrene Ionomers in Benzene Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 9, 2015From golf ball coatings (Surlyn®) to fuel cell membranes (Nafion®), ionic polymers (ionomers) are widely used. Ionomers are molecular compounds that...
Simulation Study on Huff-n-Puff Gas Injection to Enhance Condensate Recovery in Fractured Shale Gas Reservoirs Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 9, 2015Nowadays, production of liquid dropout -"condensate" in shale gas reservoirs has attained more and more attention. In shale gas reservoirs, when the...
Alternative Sampling Densities in Non-Uniform Sampling Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 9, 2015Non-uniform sampling (NUS) is more widely practiced, but many implementations either do not weight the distribution of samples, or follow exponential...
Precompetitive Collaboration for Pharmaceutical Crystallization Processing Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 9, 2015In 2014, the IQ Enabling Technologies Working Group conducted a survey of participating pharmaceutical companies to identify areas of common interest...
Lessons Learned from the Secarb Integrated CO2 Capture and Storage Project Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 9, 2015The United States Department of Energy (DOE) established seven Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships (RCSPs) in 2003. The Southeast Regional...
Photocatalytic Methanol Reforming on TiO2 Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 9, 2015Hydrogen gas has great potential for use in transportation fuels and industrial applications, but as it is currently produced commercially from steam...
Insights into the Hydrothermal Stability of ZSM-5 Under Relevant Biomass Conversion Reaction Conditions Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 9, 2015Zeolite catalysts used for the conversion of carbohydrates to renewable platform chemicals (e.g., glucose to HMF) in the condensed phase are shown to...
Room Temperature Shape Memory Polymers Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 9, 2015Temperature controlled shape memory polymers can be synthesized via a facile method using long chain fatty acid and cross-linked natural rubber. For...
Get On Board: High-speed Rail Policy to Incentivize Growth and Planning Conference PresentationAIChE Annual MeetingNovember 8, 2015Last year Japan celebrated the 50 th anniversary of the Tokaido Shinkansen, and only now does the climate seem ripe for high-speed passenger rail in...
Emissions Testing of Pressure Assisted Flare Burners Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 30, 2015The flare system for a new US Gulf Coast propylene production unit will be a multipoint ground flare utilizing pressure assisted burners. The...
Flare Regulatory Trends and Impact on Ethylene Manufacture Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 30, 2015Global attention on improving oil and gas, refinery, petrochemical, and related industrial flaring practices continues its forward advance intimately...
Bhopal 30 Years Later Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 29, 2015On the early morning of December 3rd 1984 a large release of methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas occurred in a pesticide production plant located in Bhopal,...
Cangrejera Learnings Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 29, 2015Process safety management systems should be in place to ensure repeatability in operations. A good system consists of higher level procedures that...
Ensuring Safety and Efficiency in Vertical Liquid-Gas Separators with Analysis Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 29, 2015Ensuring Safety and efficiency in vertical liquid-gas separators with analysis Key words: flow regime, multiphase flows, computational fluid dynamics...
Lessons Learned from an Incident at a Cryogenic Gas Processing Faciltiy Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 29, 2015In 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 PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 29, 2015This 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 PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 29, 2015Compressor 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 PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 29, 2015Designing 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 PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 29, 2015Past 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 PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 29, 2015
Emergency Relief System Design for Reactive System Using Direct Scale-up Method Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 29, 2015Emergency 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 PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 29, 2015The evaluation of the safety integrity level of a new or existing safety instrumented system (SIS) requires detailed calculations based on the...
A Miss, Amiss, a Near Miss Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 29, 2015Working 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...
New Building Siting Using Risk-Based Approach Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 29, 2015Growth in the energy and petrochemical sectors has seen a surge in the expansion of existing facilities (brown-fields) and construction of new...
Statistical Review of Runaway Reaction Kinetics Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 29, 2015The calculated self-heating rate of vinyl acetate polymerization runaway reaction was analyzed by means of statistical tools. The data come from a...
Process Safety Opportunities for the Refining and Petrochemical Industries Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 29, 2015The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) and the American Petroleum Institute (API) Advancing Process Safety (APS) Programs were...
Chemical Incompatibility Matrices Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 29, 2015Chemical Incompatibility Matrices Michelle R. Murphy and Surendra K. Singh ioKinetic, LLC 95 Stiles Road, Salem, New Hampshire 03079, USA murphy@...
Risk Doesn't Equal Frequency Times Severity Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 29, 2015
CFD Modeling of Air Emissions from Controlled Flare Tests Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 29, 2015Although significant progress has been made in developing technologies capable of measuring flare efficiencies and emissions in situ, essential...
Speaker 3: Deborah Grubbe Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 29, 2015
Evaluating the Potential for Cold Brittle Fracture in Ethylene Plant through Dynamic Simulation Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 29, 2015Cold brittle fracture of process vessels are typically the results of a transient condition in the process that leads to a low temperature excursion...
Case Study: Laser-Based Gas Detection Technology and Dispersion Modeling Used to Eliminate False Alarms and Improve Safety Performance on Terra Nova FPSO Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 29, 2015Suncor Energy is the operator of the Terra Nova FPSO, which is located in the Grand Banks, off the East Coast of Canada. In 2010, a multi-...
Speaker 2: Lloyd F. Colegrove Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 29, 2015
The Societal Risk of Process Industry Based on Integrated Assessment of Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA) and Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) Methodologies Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 29, 2015Currently, the demand of companies in order to regard about operational safety is ever increasing in their industrial facilities. In a typical risk...
Improving Risk-Based Decision Making By Connecting PSM Systems to Day-to-Day Plant Operations Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 29, 2015Deficiencies in safety management systems have potentially catastrophic effects to an organization's facilities. That’s why smart companies have...
Modification of the DIERS Fire Exposure Test Methodology Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 29, 2015There is a need to be able to obtain proper runaway data for reactions where fire exposure is a credible scenario. Where the engineering design has...
Leapfrogging Optimization Applications to Model Predictive Control and Nonlinear Process Modeling Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 29, 2015Conventionally used optimization methods in chemical engineering applications such as linear programming (LP), Levenberg-Marquardt and sequential...
Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center: A Catalyst for Enhanced Process Safety Competency and Knowledge Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 29, 2015
Making Sense of Reason: A Review of the Message James Reason Put Forward for a Re-Think of Safety Management Principles Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 28, 2015Making Sense of Reason: A review of the message James Reason put forward for a re-think of Safety Management Principles Abstract: Mention the author...
How to Size a Rupture Disk Vent Line for Two-Phase Gas/Liquid Flow Based on Current Engineering Practices Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 28, 2015In the chemical and petrochemical industry, vessels and pipes are protected against overpressure with safety relief devices, typically a rupture disk...
Refinery Power Outages-Caues, Costs & Solutions Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 28, 2015Unplanned refinery shutdowns hit company earnings two ways: lost production and potential liabilities for excess flaring and unsafe operations. In...
Hazardous Material Transportation Perceived Risks & Risk Management Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 28, 2015Overview of presentation: •Transportation Supply Chain & Network •Expansion of the System •Perceived Risks •Accident Rates •Transportation Risk...
Surviving an OSHA PSM National Emphasis Program Audit Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 28, 2015The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) instituted a “National Emphasis Program” to conduct both targeted and random inspections of...
Quantification of Turbulence in Cryogenic Liquid Pool Using High Speed Flow Visualization Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 28, 2015When a cryogenic liquid is released on water, turbulence is generated in the cryogenic liquid pool due to rapid vaporisation. This turbulence is...
Models for Multi-Phase & Single-Phase Flow in Pressure Relieving System Using Bernoulli Integration Conference PresentationAIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process SafetyApril 28, 2015Introduction The primary fluid flow relationships are the Bernoulli (mechanical energy) equation, energy and continuity equations, along with an...