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Prevention of Combustible Dust Explosions

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
This tutorial emphasizes the technical understanding of combustible dust phenomena. It will enable attendees to better understand combustible dust...

Who's Afraid of Combustible Dust? - an Update on Electrical Area Classification

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
The NEC has included the Zone system for electrical area classification since 2005, however the major NFPA dust standards have purposefully...

Improving Learning through Interactive Case Studies

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
Tragically, there is no shortage of case studies available to share learnings from catastrophic incidents across many industries, but we do not seem...

Transient Large-Scale Chlorine Releases in the Jack Rabbit II Field Tests: Near Source Release Data and Preliminary Analysi

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
Sponsored by the Chemical Security Analysis Center (CSAC) of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) of...

Design Considerations for Oily Water Lift Stations at Refineries

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
Oily water, a mixture of hydrocarbon residues and water, is contaminated water released during normal operations at an oil refinery. An oily water or...

A Call to Action: Understanding the Key Driver for Continual Process Safety Performance Improvement

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
A well-established design concept for management systems is the continual improvement life cycle involving the steps: Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA)...

Vapor Cloud Explosions

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
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Combustible Dust Hazard Assessment: A Risk Based Approach

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
A CCPS Concept Book on performing Combustible Dust Hazard Assessments (CDHA) will be published later this year. This book is not meant to duplicate...

Evaluating the Effect of Obstruction Separation Distance on Flammable Gas Dispersion Using FDS

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
When Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models are used for field siting studies on gas-handling facilities, the separation distance between...

Risk Criteria Selection and the Impacts on the LOPA Process

Conference Presentation
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
April 12, 2016
In the CCPS book Layer of Protection Analysis – Simplified Process Risk Assessment , Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA) is initially...

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