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  1. Process Safety Beacon: Are Your Safety Devices Working?

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2021 October On Oct. 26, 2019, a lone employee responded to a pump oil level alarm at an unmanned waterflood station in Odessa, TX. A waterflood station pumps water that is separated from crude oil back into the underground oil formation to improve extrac ...

  2. Spotlight on Safety: Conservation of Energy, Mass… and Life?

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2021 October Jim Klein Conservation of energy (CoE) and conservation of mass (CoM) are both fundamental principles that apply to many aspects of chemical engineering design, analysis, and education. Chemical engineers know that in many cases, we cannot ap ...

  3. Emergency Isolation Valves to Mitigate Early Pool Fires

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2021 October Henrique Pimenta Marcelo R. Martins Install emergency isolation valves (EIVs) to limit the consequences of uncontrolled releases of ignitable liquids and early pool fires. Uncontrolled releases of ignitable liquids can cause large pool fires ...

  4. Process Safety Beacon: The Nose Does Not Always Know

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2021 September On June 9, 2009, a natural gas explosion occurred at a meat processing plant in Garner, NC, causing a release of 18,000 lb (8,165 kg) of ammonia and a section of the building to collapse. Three workers were killed, four workers were critica ...

  5. Process Safety Progress Highlight: AI as an Ally in Hazard Analyses

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2021 September Most valuable information today exists in an unstructured form. Without a fast and effective means to explore this type of information, we fail to leverage insights. In particular, the environmental, health, and safety (EHS) domain is awash ...

  6. New Products: August 2021

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2021 August Operations and Maintenance Motors Are Available with High Power Outputs The SIMOTICS SD200 frame size 440 low-voltage, severe-duty AC motors are now available with power outputs from 75 hp to 800 hp. The motors provide high productivity and en ...

  7. Process Safety Beacon: Even Tanks Containing Mostly Water Can Explode

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2021 August On Feb. 8, 2017, an explosion occurred in a condensate tank at a mill in DeRidder, LA, that produced different grades of containerboard. According to the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), the explosion launched the tan ...

  8. Safety Minute: Sleep Loss Doubles Errors

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2021 August TJ Larkin Losing one night of sleep doubles a worker’s error rate. More than half of night shift workers report nodding off or falling asleep at least once per week when working the night shift. Sleep loss doubles errors Researchers studied ho ...

  9. Deciding Between Short-Term and Long-Term Solutions for Aging Infrastructure

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2021 August Sean J. Dee, P.E. Brenton L. Cox, P.E. Russell A. Ogle, P.E. Matthew S. Walters, P.E. Failures related to aging assets can be catastrophic to a facility. This article presents a framework for evaluating whether to implement a short-term fix or ...

  10. How is Cybersecurity Changing Process Safety?

    CEP Article | AIChE | The Global Home of Chemical Engineers
    2021 August Patrick O'Brien Leveraging existing process safety risk assessment techniques can help organizations effectively manage cybersecurity risks. Cybersecurity has become a credible threat to process safety. Today, 70% of industrial automation ...

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