Denise Chastain-Knight | AIChE

Denise Chastain-Knight

Citation name

Chastain-Knight, D.

Affiliation

Exida

State

GA

Country

USA

Denise Chastain Knight P.E., CFSE, CCPSC is a Senior Functional Safety Engineer with exida Engineering LLC. Her responsibilities include process and functional safety design and consulting, PHA and risk assessment facilitation, SIL assessment and verification studies, functional safety assessments, and training seminars. She has more than 37 years’ experience in engineering design, process improvements, process risk analysis and safety instrumented system implementation. Denise holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and is an inductee of the Council of Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni. She was voted Georgia’s Young Engineer of the Year in 1994, past chair of the NCEES PE Chemical Engineering Exam Development Committee, chair of the AIChE Body of Knowledge Development Team, and is an AIChE Fellow.

Sessions chaired or co-chaired

AIChE Body of Knowledge (BOK)
2016 AIChE Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1097-7)
PPSS Tutorials in Process Safety I: Relief Systems & Change
2020 Virtual Spring Meeting and 16th GCPS (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1113-4)
Tutorials in Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS)
2021 AIChE Virtual Spring Meeting and 17th Global Congress on Process Safety (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1115-8)
Tutorials in Loss Prevention Symposium (LPS) II2022 Spring Meeting and 18th Global Congress on Process Safety Proceedings
What is Hiding Under the Radar?2023 Spring Meeting and 19th Global Congress on Process Safety

Authored

(57bc) Three Reasons Major Event Risk Management Fails on Capital Project
2017 Spring Meeting and 13th Global Congress on Process Safety (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1098-4)
(188a) Safety Instrumented Systems Design & Lifecycle Fundamentals
2017 Spring Meeting and 13th Global Congress on Process Safety (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1098-4)
(176a) Functional Safety Practices for Operations & Maintenance2018 Spring Meeting and 14th Global Congress on Process Safety
(125a) Confirming the SIS Layer of Protection
2019 Spring Meeting and 15th Global Congress on Process Safety (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1109-7)
(51a) Don't Let Your Safe Operating Limits Leave You S-O-L (Out of Luck)
2019 Spring Meeting and 15th Global Congress on Process Safety (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1109-7)
(222b) Personal Perspectives of a Practitioner on Credentialing and Licensing
2020 Virtual Spring Meeting and 16th GCPS (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1113-4)
(92a) Slaying the Dragons That Sabotage Protection Measures to Feed on the Ash of Your Plant
2021 AIChE Virtual Spring Meeting and 17th Global Congress on Process Safety (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1115-8)
(55g) Securing Owner/Operator Interest in Fast Track Project PHAs
2024 Spring Meeting and 20th Global Congress on Process Safety (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1121-9)

Associated proceedings 

2016 AIChE Annual Meeting
2017 Spring Meeting and 13th Global Congress on Process Safety
2018 Spring Meeting and 14th Global Congress on Process Safety
2019 Spring Meeting and 15th Global Congress on Process Safety
2020 Virtual Spring Meeting and 16th GCPS
2021 AIChE Virtual Spring Meeting and 17th Global Congress on Process Safety
2022 Spring Meeting and 18th Global Congress on Process Safety Proceedings
2023 Spring Meeting and 19th Global Congress on Process Safety
2024 Spring Meeting and 20th Global Congress on Process Safety