52nd Annual Loss Prevention Symposium (LPS)
The Loss Prevention Symposium (LPS) is one of four parallel symposia that comprise The Global Congress on Process Safety (GCPS). The purpose of the LPS conference is to present technological advances in process safety, explosion prevention, fire protection and lessons learnt from incident investigations. LPS focuses on Process Safety technology – new developments, cutting edge solutions, and innovative/novel approaches to hazard identification and risk assessment/management.
The conference agenda will consist of six sessions, each with six 25-minute presentations. Papers are selected by session chairs based on an abstract of 100-200 words. The abstract must offer a brief account of the contents, conclusions, and the relevance to the topic area. Submitted abstracts must include the name(s) of the author(s), their affiliation(s), full address(es), email(s), and phone number(s). The papers will be published in the GCPS proceedings.
LPS Chair1
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Kathleen A. Kas, LPS_chair@aiche.org
CFA Session Topic:
Fires, Explosions, and Chemical Reactivity
Facility Siting, Consequence Analysis and Risk Assessment
Combustible Dust Hazards and Their Mitigation
External Events Risk Assessment and Management
Asset Integrity and Reliability
Emerging Topics and Technologies
Case Histories (GCPS Joint Session)
Fires, EXplosions, and Chemical Reactivity
The analysis, prevention, protection and mitigation of hazards posed by fires, explosions, toxic dispersions and reactive chemicals have always been important to the loss prevention community. This technical session invites papers on these process hazards, with a specific focus on new data, novel or cutting edge approaches related to hazard assessment, hazard identification/characterization, and the development of safe designs and/or operational practices to manage the hazards.
Facility Siting, Consequence Analysis and Risk Assessment
The application of facility siting principles continues to expand as part of project and facility risk assessment activities. This session seeks papers describing applications and recent advancements in facility siting, dispersion modeling, and quantitative risk analysis, as well as the application of such tools and techniques into corporate risk assessment. Of particular interest are papers describing applications and recent advancement in consequence and quantitative risk analysis for large scale vapor clouds, with a special emphasis on source terms and consequence modelling. Paper describing best practices, case studies and lessons learned are encouraged.
Combustible Dust Hazards and Their Mitigation
Dust explosion safety continues to be an area of interest and development for loss prevention professionals. This session is seeking papers presenting new data on dust hazards and their mitigation. Of special interest is the characterization of flash fires and explosive hazards of metal dusts and nanoparticles, as well as food, electronics, and pharmaceutical applications.
External Events Risk Assessment and Management
Site risk assessments are typically based on potential events associated with accidents at the site itself. However, there is increasing focus on better understanding the impact of external events, which include: extreme weather and other natural disasters (floods, earthquakes, etc.); sabotage (physical and cyber) from hostile entities; and hazardous events from neighboring facilities (fire, explosions, toxic releases etc.). Topics to be covered in this call for papers include, but are not limited to: prediction, modeling, layers of protection and mitigation of consequences associated with such events.
Asset Integrity and Reliability
Managing asset integrity involves designing, procuring, constructing and maintaining process facilities that provide control of process hazards over the life cycle for equipment as varied as piping, vessels, rotating equipment, instrumentation and controls, safety systems, utilities and key infrastructure. This session is an opportunity to share mechanical integrity philosophies and programs, as well as implementation details for specific equipment types or failure mechanisms. Advances in condition monitoring and in developing inspection, testing and preventive maintenance intervals using risk- and reliability-based methods and models (e.g. risk-based inspection, Weibull analysis) are also of interest.
Emerging Topics and Technologies
As the chemical processing industry evolves into the digital frontier, big data analytics and intelligent devices are transforming the way we do business and manage operational risks. Challenges faced in process safety now more than ever require innovative and multi-disciplinary approaches to problem solving that can turn complex data into actionable intelligence. We invite new research and industrial implementations of emerging technologies that have current and future implications to loss prevention in the chemical industry. This session covers a range of topics including advanced process decision-making, artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, machine learning, as well as robotics, drones, autonomous vehicles, smart devices, and 3D printing.
Case Histories (GCPS joint session)
Reviews of process safety incidents provide valuable learning opportunities. This session invites papers to help understand the causes and lessons learned from incidents in the industry with an emphasis on events that have helped define and develop the process safety field over the years.