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An Optimization Formulation for Risk Reduction of the Layout of Offshore Platforms

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 28, 2015
An Optimization Formulation for Risk Reduction of the Layout of Offshore Platforms Joshua Richardson and M. Sam Mannan Mary Kay O'Connor Process...

PHA Facilitation and Teamwork Dynamics: Or Why Not All Hazops Are Created Equal

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 28, 2015
Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) is a fundamental element of every process safety management program. The various techniques (what if, HAZOP, HAZID,...

Case Study on SMALL-Scale LNG Facility Expansion

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 28, 2015
With the influx of natural gas production throughout the United States, the small-scale LNG market is growing at a rapid pace. One option to take...

Robotic Convection Bank Cleaning

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 28, 2015
Ethylene cracking heaters like other box fired heaters in the refining and petrochemical industry represent a significant investment in a plant...

To Safely Go Where No Man Has Gone before: Exploring and Producing with Process Safety

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 28, 2015
Today’s process safety practices are invariably the result of hard lessons learned by industry after experiencing major accidents. Process safety...

Huaa...When Local Learning and Casual Sharing Is Not Enough

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 28, 2015
As a consequence of the Deepwater Horizon blowout and explosion, Bhopal and Piper Alpha, we have the PSM standard and SEMS rule. This helps ensure...

Calculating Facility Siting Study Leak Sizes - Applications of the Maximum Design Leak (MDL) Approach

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 28, 2015
Consequence-based Facility Siting Studies (FSSs) typically requires the user assume a credible leak size to use in the evaluation of potential...

Developing Credible Scenarios for a PHA

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 28, 2015
OSHA’s Compliance Guidelines and Recommendations for the PSM Standard states “A PHA is an organized and systematic effort to identify and analyze the...

Ten Commandments of Risk Based Process Safety

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 28, 2015
TEN COMMANDMENTS OF PROCESS SAFETY Thou shall honor thy container Thou shall always maintain a sense of vulnerability Thou shall eliminate...

Three Decades after Bhopal: What We Have Learned about Effectively Managing Process Safety Risks

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 28, 2015
While no industrial chemical incident has had the magnitude for loss of life that occurred in 1984 at Bhopal, process safety incidents continue to...

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