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April 2019

3D Printing- Unique Hazards When Metal Dust Is Created

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2019
Over the past several years, manufacturers in the additive industries have employed 3D printing to increase efficiency on plant floors. Materials...

Crediting Check Valves As IPLs: a Testing Protocol to Better Understand Check Valve Reliability

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2019
Conventional process safety wisdom assumes that check valves are not reliable safeguards. Experience indicates that check valves are prone to failure...

Linear Control in a Nonlinear World (A Practical Perspective)

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2019
Most process control applications assume that the processes they control are “linear”. In other words, they...

Profit from Flue Gas to Increase Crop Yields

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2019
Presented is pilot plant data/ results operating in multiple orchards in Kern County, California. Flue gas taken directly from the clean natural gas...

Shortcut Modeling of Natural Gas Supersonic Separation

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2019
Supersonic separation is a novel technology for natural gas separation. The theoretical design uniquely combines concepts from aerodynamics,...

Third Friday Networking Lunch – May 2019

Friday, May 17, 2019,
11:30am to 1:00pm
CDT
Speaker: Yougen Kong, Ph.D., P.E., Technical Support Manager, Gexcon US Dr. Yougen Kong is Technical Support Manager at Gexcon US, a leading process safety company with expertise in flammable gas dispersion, fires and explosions. He holds a Ph.D. in chemical engineering and is experienced in...Read more

Overview of ASME PCC-2 Piping Repair Methods and Associated Novel Inspection Techniqu

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2019
Advances in technologies for in situ repair of piping, has created the possibility that the anticipated service life of pipe repairs may equal or...

Heavy Oil Reforming

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2019
Heavy Oil Reforming TDA Research is developing a reforming process capable of converting nearly any hydrocarbon feedstock into H 2 . Our process has...

Enhancing Behavior-Based Safety Culture through Casual Safety Observations

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2019
Despite the influx of automated systems in the chemical manufacturing plant, human factors continue to play a pivotal role in the day-to-day...

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