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  1. New Products: January 2024

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2024 January Environmental, Health, and Safety Spill Containment Pallets Are Liquid-Tight The drum spill containment pallets allow for the safe storage of oils, coolants, acids, caustics, and other corrosive liquids. Its construction seals tightly and pro ...

  2. Patent Update: Insuring Against an IP Disaster

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2024 January Jason Balich Insurance is part of our daily lives. Health insurance reimburses us if we get sick, life insurance safeguards loved ones if we pass away, and auto insurance reimburses others in case we cause an accident and injure someone else ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  6. CEP: News Update

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2024 January Envisioning a Cleaner, Safer Ammonia Economy A new analysis suggests that the "ammonia economy" will need to be carefully designed to ensure it is cleaner than the energy sources it replaces.... Coal Power Plant Particulates Associa ...

  7. Sustainable Delivery of Modular Process Plant Projects

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2024 January David Edwards Grant Girouard Sections Reuse, retrofit, and relocate: Benefits of going modular Going paperless in plant design Sustainable plant fabrication and delivery Closing thoughts Literature Cited Acknowledgments State-of-the-art manuf ...

  9. 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 ...

  10. Heat Transfer in Mechanically Agitated Tanks

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2023 December Gregory Benz, P.E. This article summarizes the methodology for heat transfer design in the most common mechanically agitated vessels. Heat transfer in agitated tanks is an important part of many applications in the chemical process industrie ...

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