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Process Safety Management: 21 Years Plus or Minus -- What I Wish I’d Known Then and What We Can’t Afford to Forget Now!

Conference Presentation
Southwest Process Technology Conference
October 3, 2013
This presentation provides practical thoughts and insights on the essence of Process Safety Management (PSM), distilled from the presenter’s 34 years...

Implementation of a Safety Instrumented System (SIS) in a Project

Conference Presentation
Southwest Process Technology Conference
October 3, 2013
What happens after a PHA/LOPA in a project? The development and implementation of a Safety Instrumented System based on those results has to be...

Risk Assessment Challenges 20:20

Conference Presentation
Southwest Process Technology Conference
October 3, 2013
A wide variety of hazard identification and risk assessment techniques are available. All techniques require knowledge in the fundamentals of the...

Driving Sustainable Savings in Utility Operations through a Site-wide Energy Model

Conference Presentation
Southwest Process Technology Conference
October 3, 2013
Sustainable savings are routinely captured by utility system operators at industrial facilities through regular implementation of real-time...

Debottlenecking Catalyst Reactors Though Maximization of the Useable Bed Volume with Johnson Screens’ SSG™

Conference Presentation
Southwest Process Technology Conference
October 3, 2013
Limitations on catalyst reactor vessels can create bottlenecks in the production process which can lead to a need for increased capacity. Capital...

Guidelines for Relative Hazard Ranking of Refrigerants and Siting Considerations for LNG Liquefaction Units

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
May 2, 2013
Recent growth in the availability of domestic natural gas has led the industry to push for the development of liquefaction facilities, at both...

HSE Evolution in Conversion of LNG Import Terminals to Export

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
May 2, 2013
TBD

CSB Investigation of Chevron Richmond Refinery Fire

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
May 1, 2013
On August 6, 2012 a hydrocarbon fire occurred at approximately 6:30 p.m. in the crude unit of the Chevron Richmond Refinery in Richmond, California...

Trouble-Shooting and Optimizing Ethylene Plant Cooling Water Networks by Using Advanced Process Simulation

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
May 1, 2013
Abstract: Cooling Water Networks generally do not receive due attention from engineers and are usually overlooked in comparison to other critical...

Case Studies in Process Safety: Lessons Learned From Software-Related Accidents

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
May 1, 2013
Abstract Software often plays a significant role in the safety of complex systems such as those used in the chemical processing and energy production...

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