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April 2012

The US Chemical Safety Board and Inherently Safer Technology

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
The United State (US) Chemical Safety Board (CSB) was created by the same legislation that mandated the regulation of high hazard industries by the...

Useful Tips for Optimal Fired Heater Performance

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
Advanced Process Control Strategies for Process Fired Heaters Fired Heaters are used extensively throughout refineries for heating, vaporization and...

All Sulphur Plants Are Not Created Equal

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
All Sulphur Plants are Not Created Equal ABSTRACT Sulphur recovery from natural resources is required to meet environmental regulations on sulphur...

Management of Change: Quality Implementation and Performance

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
It is often said that the only thing which is permanent in this world is change. In the process industry, as elsewhere, change is a main lever for...

Human Factors and Their Optimization

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
Weak control of human factors leads directly to error. An error can result in an initiating event of an accident sequence (directly by the mistake...

A Mechanistic and Experimental Study of the Diethyl Ether Oxidation

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
A large number of organic compounds, such as ethers, spontaneously form unstable peroxides through a self-propagating process of autoxidation (...

Ethylene Plant Optimization: Footprint Replacements & Parallel Compressor Trains

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
There are many important benefits of revamping, rerating and modernizing turbomachinery such as accommodating changes in current operating conditions...

Global and Local QSPR Models to Predict the Impact Sensitivity of Nitro Compounds

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
New quantitative structure property relationships (QSPR) have been developed to predict accurately the impact sensitivity of nitro compounds from...

Develop a Human Performance Modeling System for Process Safety Operations

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
Develop a Human Performance Modeling System for Process Safety Operations Emrah Harputlu , Susan Murray, Ray A. Mentzer, and Sam Mannan Mary Kay O'...

When MOC Meets LOPA: A Quantitative Assessment of the Impact of Errors in MOCs

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
Layers of Protection Analysis, "LOPA", has become a popular tool for conducting semi-quantitative risk assessments, in the chemical process...

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