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Quantitative Risk Analysis for Decision Support in Process Plant Operations

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 13, 2016
Design of complex technical systems with potential for major accidents, such as nuclear power plants, offshore installations and high hazard process...

In-Breathing Requirement for a Tempererd Tank Exposed to Prolonged Sudden Rainfalls

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 13, 2016
Low-pressure storage tanks are normally large tanks, which contain huge amounts of product within thin walls, typically made by one metal sheet. Low...

Conducting a Human Reliability Assessment to Support PHA and LOPA

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 13, 2016
PHA and LOPA facilitators may struggle with Human Factors and Administrative controls in their team sessions for a variety of reasons. These could...

Do You Feel Lucky? or Do You Want to Identify and Manage Safety - Critical Equipment?

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 13, 2016
Today’s process safety practices are invariably the result of hard lessons learned by industry from major accidents. Process safety management...

Inherently Safety Quenching of HCN Polymerization with Phosphoric Acid

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
Hydrogen Cyanide (HCN) product is stored in tanks at many production facilities. It is capable of self-reaction that could end in explosive...

Safety Practice for Refinery and Petrochemical Plants - During the Major T&I (Turnaround & Inspection)

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
Safety Practice for Refinery and Petrochemical in the Major T&I Rabigh Refinery and Petrochemical Company (Petro Rabigh), is an integrated...

Successfully Managing a Changing Workforce - Application to Process Safety Management

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
Companies worldwide are faced with the difficult challenge of managing workforce change in a time when budgets are tight, pressures to decrease costs...

Dust Explosions - the Nature of the Problem and Practical Measures for Its Control - Including the Requirements of the New NFPA 652 for Dust Hazard Assessment

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
Many powders will burn slowly or with difficulty as a layer on a surface, but can explode if dispersed as a cloud. In fact, the vast majority of...

Improving Combustion Efficiency, Reliability, and Safety in Large Fired Heaters Utilizing Multiplexed Laser Based Monitoring and Diagnostic Systems

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
Operators are often challenged to maintain well-balanced, uniform combustion across a large fired heater in order to optimize efficiency, reliability...

Case Study on Inspection of Radiant Heater Ethylene Cracker Tubes

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
A tube crawler has been developed to quantify the carburization in 25%Cr-35%Ni alloy tubes used in furnaces for ethylene production. Eddy current...

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