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Half a Century of Olefin Plant Accidents: The Role of Mechanical Integrity

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
Sebastian Diaz, Aon energy Risk Engineering, League City, TX. Email: sebastian.diaz@aon.com Russ Davis, CSP Aon Energy Risk Engineering, League City...

New Correlations for Predicting Flammability Limits of Pure Materials and Mixtures

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
Flammability limits are one of the most important parameters to characterize material hazards. Currently, numerous methods or correlations, either...

Human Factors and Their Optimization

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
Weak control of human factors leads directly to error. An error can result in an initiating event of an accident sequence (directly by the mistake...

Inter-Linkages Between Process Safety and APELL for Accident Prevention and Preparedness

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
The Awareness and Preparedness for Emergency at Local Level Programme (APELL) was developed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) with...

Management of Change: Quality Implementation and Performance

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
It is often said that the only thing which is permanent in this world is change. In the process industry, as elsewhere, change is a main lever for...

A Review of IST Feasibility with the Supply Chain of Three Toxic Industrial Chemicals

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 2, 2012
This paper will summarize an analysis of the supply chains of three separate Toxic Industrial Chemicals (TICs) with respect to prevalence in industry...

Resources, Recommendations and Overcoming Challenges for Integrating Safety Into the Chemical Engineering Curriculum

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 17, 2011
Interviews were performed with more than ten instructors and professors who are currently incorporating safety into the chemical engineering...

A Treasure Hunt towards Process Safety In the Unit Operations Laboratory

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 17, 2011
Integration of the process safety in the chemical engineering curriculum is a requirement. Several places exist and with a multitude of approaches...

Exposing the Blurry Lines Between Personal Safety and Process Safety Education

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 17, 2011
Chemical engineering curricula have long been focused on instilling the fundamentals of chemical engineering science in undergraduates and advancing...

The 3rd Edition of Chemical Process Safety, Fundamentals with Applications

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 17, 2011
The 3 rd edition of Chemical Process Safety, Fundamentals with Applications was published in the early summer of 2011. The third edition has been...

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