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Chemical Ventures Conference - 2019 - Kingston Process Metallurgy

Taming the Wild River Rapids ֠How Process Safety Can Apply Outside the Process Industries

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 3, 2019
Abstract On the 25 th October 2016 the Thunder River Rapids ride at Dreamworld on Australia’s Goldcoast suffered a pump failure,...

Kingston Process Metallurgy

Investigation of Hydrocarbon Utilization By Debaryomyces Hansenii (LAF-3 10 u) in Desalter Effluent

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 3, 2019
The bio-remediation of desalter effluent in the crude oil refinery and its reuse in the petroleum refinery is a practical option. Desalter effluent...

Detection and Isolation of Abnormal Event in Nonlinear Industrial Processes By a Novel Data-Based Method

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 3, 2019
Detection and Isolation of Abnormal Event in Nonlinear Industrial Processes by a Novel Data-Based Method Chiranjivi Botre a , Hazem N. Nounou b ,...

Charles Roe

Dr. Roe is a serial entrepreneur and presently serves as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of AlgiSys, a biotechnology company that he co-founded in 2009.  Since its inception, AlgiSys has raised $6.7MM in private and non-dilutive capital, and developed patented technology to manufacture omega-3 nutritional oils and high protein additives for use in the supplement, food & beverage, animal feed, aquaculture, and pharmaceutical industries.  Prior to AlgiSys, he co-founded and served as the CTO for Biofuel Producers of America (dba Algae Producers, Inc.), a diversified algae...Read more

Major Explosion at a Chemical Company in China: The Causes and Lessons Learned

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 3, 2019
Abstract ： On July 12, 2018, a devastating explosion accident occurred in Yibin City Hengda Technology Co., Ltd. in Sichuan...

Impact of Nutrients on Water Environment: Control Technologies and Policy

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 3, 2019
Effluent streams of domestic origin contain nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) that are essential nutrients for the growth and metabolism of microbial...

Specifying Control Valve Performance to Achieve Desired Process Performance

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 3, 2019
In the 1990’s, a study of over 5000 control loops revealed that 30% of the loops were INCREASING process variability due to poor...

When Emergency Response Goes Fatally Wrong: Lessons Learned from Investigating Two Major Incidents

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 3, 2019
Emergency response plans are an essential, yet oftentimes overlooked, layer of protection for facilities where all other layers of protection failed...

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